alternative hip-hop
Raw Poetic’s Laminated Skies is a future-tilting conscious rap record where the rhymes flow fast and the beats don’t stand still
Chicago’s Bless the Mad discuss updating 90s hip-hop, incorporating spiritual jazz and paying homage to ancestors on their miraculous debut
Enter The Twilite Tone’s instrumental hip-hop world with The Clearing, his wonderful debut long player on Stones Throw
Stewart Gardiner pulls together reviews of The Soulless Party, Fat Tony and Taydex, Strut’s Cadence Revolution compilation and Freddie Gibbs & Madlib beats