Tag: soul
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Spectreview: Pink Siifu & Fly Anakin – Flysiifu’s
Pink Siifu and Fly Anakin set up shop (and put on a clinic) in the revelrous, freewheeling grooves of FlySiifu’s.
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Spectreview: sous chef & swingset – Saturn
Saturn, a collaboration between Seattle’s Antoine Martel and Jordan Lowe, is a breezy jazz-inflected package speckled with collages.
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Spectreview: Jyoti – Mama, You Can Bet!
Jyoti’s excellent Mama, You Can Bet! is equal parts breezy and weighty, and it further solidifies Georgia Anne Muldrow as an underappreciated master of jazz and soul.
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NON-PROFIT MUSIC FOR THE PROTESTS: SAULT – UNTITLED (Black Is)
UNTITLED (Black Is), a double album that’s alternately comforting and exploratory, delivers everything that made SAULT such a sensational discovery.
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Spectreview: Michael Kiwanuka – KIWANUKA
Michael Kiwanuka’s self-titled album is as sprawling as his 2016 breakthrough but more streamlined, with a fresh, soulful regality.
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Spectreview: Vitamin D – Mama’s Basement
Legendary Seattle hip-hop producer Vitamin D takes us back to the past in the warm, inviting atmosphere of Mama’s Basement.
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Spectreview: Blood Orange – Angel’s Pulse
Blood Orange’s new mixtape, an epilogue to 2018’s Negro Swan, is a AC-cooled drive by the ocean that’s perhaps less intricate than his full-lengths but no less thoughtful.
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EXTENDED PLAY: The 27 Club FINALE – Amy Winehouse
Today on the Tape Deck: a fitting finale for a series of tales about death, the heartbreaking story of world-domineering 2000s soul/R&B/jazz singer Amy Winehouse.
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Spectreview: MadGibbs – Bandana
Freddie Gibbs & Madlib’s Bandana is soulful, widescreen gangsta rap that finds both artists on fresh ground by virtue of their creative partnership.
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EXTENDED PLAY: The 27 Club #3 – Jimi Hendrix
It’s Episode #3 of the TDP’s exploration of the members of the 27 Club! Today we delve into the life of one of the most groundbreaking guitar artists of the 20th century, Jimi Hendrix.