![[Album] Kaye Styles - First Born](http://bp0.blogger.com/_y4TdkfppHdQ/R---9KybsGI/AAAAAAAAAKA/Jl7SFfujvdw/s400/00+-+Kaye+Styles+-+First+Born+(Cover).jpg)
OMG, I just x-chromosomed my jeans. This is like springtime shoegaze, perfect for those upcoming mid-sixty degree evenings on the balcony, watching the helicopters' lights blink in sync with sattelites. The deeper I get into it, some of it's like Dylan shoegaze. Whatever, yo. It's good, and it just hit the internet.
How the hell did this get released without a word of it popping up on blogs or message boards? Bought the 12" for Burgers a while back, but didn't even know an LP was on the way. Kill People is my shit. Got a lot more from these guys. Let me know if ya'll are interested.
This has a circus-ish feel while sounding 90's alt-rock. Not bad, but not my thing. Plus the title reminds me too much of an AC song.
What can I really say? My favorite band in the universe just makes good music interesting. They change their style nearly every album, and generally play two albums in advance when touring. Seen them twice, and it's a brainmelt. Can't wait to see them again at pitchfork this summer!
Animal Collective - Unreleased, B-Sides, Etc. . Download: Mediafire
The more the discs spin, the more I gain a respect for Subtle, and Doseone in particular. Their music is so technical, outside the box, emotional, and complex. It's rap, but it's not. Almost like a confused white boy doing solo Bone Thugs-N-Harmony impressions over irregular timestamps - but completely original. I can tell, the more time I spend researching Dose, that he was a huge hip-hop head, that it was his blood and ligaments. That's exactly how I felt for much of my life. Anyhow, he doesn't even rhyme half the time, but his flow is so incredible... I really hope that, like modern day poetry, eventually music goes the way of anti-rhyme. It's out-dated, unnecessary, confining (in a bad way), and just fucking cheesy. He pulls it off so well one rarely notices. You should probably read this instead of me continually jerking his cock.
Subtle - Wishingbone . Download: Mediafire
Subtle - For Hero: For Fool . Download: Mediafire
![[Album] Day 26 - Day 26](http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g141/niriden/day26.jpg)
Here it is, somewhere between oatmeal porridge (winter) and tea on the patio (summer). It's the perfect season for a smoothie breakfast. My sister got us hooked on smoothies a few weeks ago. Lucky for us, there are three biiiig bags of Saskatchewan wild blueberries and one of lingonberries in the freezer just waiting to be smoothie-fied. I say there's no better way to get your daily dose of fruit. Here's our recipe: 
This is an acoustic EP version of what's to come on their new album. Death Take Your Fiddle is heartbreaking.
Post-punk before post-punk was post-punk. Another overlooked classic. So many groups have bit this shit.
Company Flow's (El-P's first group) only real album (Little Johnny From The Hospital doesn't count), Funcrusher Plus sound like gritty New York underground punch you in the throat rap from the year 2137. If people in 2137 forgot how to rap on beat.
These guys, at least for this album, were so far ahead of the curve it's unbelievable that they don't get more credit. They stayed on point lyrically (reminiscent of Grandmaster Flash on The Message), and the beats still get jacked today (Friends has been redone so many times it's ridiculous). Five Minutes Of Funk, Friends, Freaks Come Out At Night, and Escape are as good as any pre-90's hip-hop gets.
While Ice Cube had left the group, leaving the writing duties up to MC Ren and The D.O.C. (both completely underrated rappers, imo), Dr. Dre had stepped up his production, moving away from the sparse Boom-Bap 101 beats into a foreshadowing of G-Funk. Assisted by Cold187um (aka Hutch) of Above The Law, he brought in your face music to accompany the thug-on-the-corner street talk lyricism. This album reached #1 on Billboard its first week without any radio or video play.
