Live jazz is alive and well: SML – Spontaneous Music Live ALBUM REVIEW

| ⭐⭐⭐⭐ | Bit of a late one The LA jazz scene is thriving right now, and has been for well over a decade. Your Thundercat’s, Flying Lotus’s, Terrace Martin’s, Kamasi Washington’s and Miles Mosley’s have lent jazz music a space to thrive in the general music underground (and some have even found themselves swimmingContinueContinue reading “Live jazz is alive and well: SML – Spontaneous Music Live ALBUM REVIEW”

Even more mutant: James Blake – Trying Times *ALBUM REVIEW*

| ⭐⭐⭐⭐ | It’s fascinating, really. As Blake leans more heavily into the organic warmth of traditional R&B music, his vocal applications grow even more manipulated. These undulations occur almost as if he were modulating himself in real time, independent of the technology required. The more rustic approach to his usual alien croon tunes onContinueContinue reading “Even more mutant: James Blake – Trying Times *ALBUM REVIEW*”