HM Album Reviews Half-Handed Cloud Flying Scroll Flight Control Eighteen songs in about 25 minutes is no personal best in brevity for John Ringhoffer’s Half-Handed Cloud (his one-man band), but Flying Scroll Flight Control may be his densest... HM Album Reviews Me, Extinct. Spent Around the turn of the last century, Jorge Goyco and his wife, Leigh, proffered sunny ambient techno together as Antidote. Whether anything else about him has gotten darker in... HM Album Reviews True Liberty Give Me True Liberty or Give Me Death Veteran Richmond, VA band True Liberty remain, for the most part, stalwart to the East Coast, early ’80s, oi hardcore punk on the mostly live fifth LP, Give Me... HM Album Reviews Beautiful Eulogy Instruments of Mercy The super group(ish) trio of heavenly hip-hop emcees Braile, Odd Thomas and Courtland Urbano’s second long-player is alt like crazy. (Think “Why?” after absorbing a library of systematic theology... HM Album Reviews Various Artists Glimpses of Grace I’m all for hip-hop based on actual samples, loops and scratches of actually soulful and funky vintage R&B. I’m much more for it than the deluge of sizzyrup-influenced synth... HM Album Reviews D.T.S. Nothing Without You D.T.S. (can’t tell you what his initials represent, alas) looks to be taking baby steps into hip-hop. Following up a collaborative single is the six-track Nothing Without You, wherein... HM Album Reviews The Revolutionary Army of the Infant Jesus After the End When The Revolutionary Army of the Infant Jesus reared its head up from the Liverpool indieground in the late ‘80s with The Gift Of Tears, the critical lexicon to... HM Album Reviews Moses Uvere The Motive It’s good to hear Nigerian-Texan Moses Uvere bring Dallas, the city rappers P.I.D. and D-Boy Rodriguez once called home, back into holy hip-hop prominence. On his third record The... HM Album Reviews ALERT312 Of Vice &Virtue The trippy minimalism of Moral One’s production on his and Boogalu’s full-length debut as Alert312 recalls the street psychedelia of Eric B. & Rakim, Divine Styler and Pete Rock... HM Album Reviews Andy Mineo Heroes for Sale Andy Mineo has built up a rep through the typical hip-means of mix tapes and guest appearances. On his first proper album, he’s transparent to a fault, which is... HM Album Reviews Joy Electric Dwarf Mountain Alphabet Yes, Ronnie Martin has pep to spare in his pursuit of peachy synth-pop on the umpteenth Joy Electric HM Album Reviews Sufjan Stevens Silver and Gold Really, how much can a singer say in a second Christmas album that he couldn’t say in his first? HM Album Reviews Sam Phillips Martinis & Bikinis This reissue proves it’s still the largely dark and quizzical work of a woman whose commercial and spiritual crossroads intersected in such a way to birth some of her...
HM Album Reviews Half-Handed Cloud Flying Scroll Flight Control Eighteen songs in about 25 minutes is no personal best in brevity for John Ringhoffer’s Half-Handed Cloud (his one-man band), but Flying Scroll Flight Control may be his densest...
HM Album Reviews Me, Extinct. Spent Around the turn of the last century, Jorge Goyco and his wife, Leigh, proffered sunny ambient techno together as Antidote. Whether anything else about him has gotten darker in...
HM Album Reviews True Liberty Give Me True Liberty or Give Me Death Veteran Richmond, VA band True Liberty remain, for the most part, stalwart to the East Coast, early ’80s, oi hardcore punk on the mostly live fifth LP, Give Me...
HM Album Reviews Beautiful Eulogy Instruments of Mercy The super group(ish) trio of heavenly hip-hop emcees Braile, Odd Thomas and Courtland Urbano’s second long-player is alt like crazy. (Think “Why?” after absorbing a library of systematic theology...
HM Album Reviews Various Artists Glimpses of Grace I’m all for hip-hop based on actual samples, loops and scratches of actually soulful and funky vintage R&B. I’m much more for it than the deluge of sizzyrup-influenced synth...
HM Album Reviews D.T.S. Nothing Without You D.T.S. (can’t tell you what his initials represent, alas) looks to be taking baby steps into hip-hop. Following up a collaborative single is the six-track Nothing Without You, wherein...
HM Album Reviews The Revolutionary Army of the Infant Jesus After the End When The Revolutionary Army of the Infant Jesus reared its head up from the Liverpool indieground in the late ‘80s with The Gift Of Tears, the critical lexicon to...
HM Album Reviews Moses Uvere The Motive It’s good to hear Nigerian-Texan Moses Uvere bring Dallas, the city rappers P.I.D. and D-Boy Rodriguez once called home, back into holy hip-hop prominence. On his third record The...
HM Album Reviews ALERT312 Of Vice &Virtue The trippy minimalism of Moral One’s production on his and Boogalu’s full-length debut as Alert312 recalls the street psychedelia of Eric B. & Rakim, Divine Styler and Pete Rock...
HM Album Reviews Andy Mineo Heroes for Sale Andy Mineo has built up a rep through the typical hip-means of mix tapes and guest appearances. On his first proper album, he’s transparent to a fault, which is...
HM Album Reviews Joy Electric Dwarf Mountain Alphabet Yes, Ronnie Martin has pep to spare in his pursuit of peachy synth-pop on the umpteenth Joy Electric
HM Album Reviews Sufjan Stevens Silver and Gold Really, how much can a singer say in a second Christmas album that he couldn’t say in his first?
HM Album Reviews Sam Phillips Martinis & Bikinis This reissue proves it’s still the largely dark and quizzical work of a woman whose commercial and spiritual crossroads intersected in such a way to birth some of her...
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