death's dynamic shroud - Darklife

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Young Fathers - "Effigy"

Scottish experimental hip hop trio Young Fathers brings the second installment of Friends of Friends' Show Me the Future compilation series to a powerful close with the track "Effigy." With its alternately bleeping and rumbling instrumental and its formidable flow, it's hard to blame the label for gushing that it's "a track so good we HAD to preview it."

Show Me the Future Volume 2 is due out August 12th via Friends of Friends. Earlier this year, Young Fathers dropped the EP Tape Two, which you can watch a review of here:

Altar of Plagues - Teethed Glory and Injury

Irish black metal outfit Altar of Plagues' latest album sees the band challenging their atomspheric black metal roots with loops, synthetic drums, keyboards, noise, and some unique grooves.

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The xx- Coexist

On their sophomore effort, London dream pop outfit the xx drum up more of the skeletal, emotive style their first album delivered.

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Death Grips- "The Fever (Aye Aye)" (LOVED)

On the fourth track Death Grips has released from its forthcoming album, the Money Store, MC Ride and company continue to build a musical empire on the morbid and abrasive noise hop foundation laid out on last year's Exmilitary.

Drummer Zach Hill's beats hit hard, featuring some subtle bass drums that are diddling away with fantastic precision. The synths toward the introduction of the track sound like the chopped and looped sample of a space ship engine revving up. The synths change toward the hook, though, sliding a catchy melody into the mix among all the chaos.

Ride's lyrics deal in the kind of imagery only a horrorcore rapper would touch: blood. execution, plague. However, he and Death Grips sidestep that kind of label thanks to the group's extreme sound. Ride's trademark screamed flow gives these words the extreme touch they need to strike fear. Even after acclimating myself to the Death Grips aesthetic with numerous listens, there's still something about the group's music that puts me on edge. It's as if putting a Death Grips track on is the equivalent to hearing blood-curdling screams and gunshots outside my window.

As usual, Ride's flow and Hill's grooves make a deadly combo. Considering how great the material released thus far from this album has been, I can't imagine the forthcoming the Money Store failing to please on at least some level.

BADBADNOTGOOD- "ROTTEN DECAY"

After building a strong reputation on reinterpreting classic hip hop beats through jazz instrumentation, BADBADNOTGOOD has released this new, original single, "ROTTEN DECAY."

Grab a download of the single right here.

New Live Vid From BADBADNOTGOOD

A new live video of the boys in BADBADNOTGOOD performing "Brooklyn Zoo," "Alex Swag," and "The World Is Yours." Check our review of the trio's new album here, and listen to the album here.

Seekae- "Gnor"

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Seekae is an Australian trio, and +Dome is their 2nd album. It came out in March on Rice Is Nice.

On "Gnor," electronic and acoustic flavors meld into an interesting instrumental. Another thing about this track is that it's always moving in another direction, looking for a way out the moment it falls into a bit of a groove. If I skip from the 1:00 mark to the 3:00 mark, it sounds like two completely different songs. But the mutation happens gracefully in the two minutes that separate them.