#2848 Bottin - I Have What I Gave

Super cool. All nightdrive momentum with Italian disco ambiance, everything so minimal and crisp, thin black ties and slick suits under laser light. The perfect combination of maximalist lean-forward and icy lean-back, touches of rockist energy with a DJ's touch for organic pacing and perfectly placed samples 4.5/5

#2847 Mock and Toof - Tuning Echoes

What a warm weird hug of buzzes and tones, slinking about like Siriusmo, Surkin, and the most listenable Aphex Twin. The best songs are sexy and strange, strutting through weird nightlights. The vocal tracks are a drag though, turning the lights up too high. Droll Punk. Warm Chip. There's 1/3 of a great album in here, pluck it out for your mixes 3.5/5

#2846 Warmduscher - Khaki Tears

an album that starts like you walked into the middle of something, a meandering jam, yelped at hour four of a upperfueled raveup that's intersecting its downslopes and upslopes. blurts and bleats, erratic electronics and shouts, frogs gone pavement, sonic youth gone enon, a bracingly unvarnished simmering lowercase deadpan shitshow worth pouring on your face, a real tight slice of dumb live bullshit to roll around in 4/5

#2845 The Men - Drift

Love The Men, but there latest stuff sounds like the kind of thing I'd make goofing around in a practice space if me and the mates had 60% more talent. Which's endearing in its way, and not without its hooks, but there's something soulless, amateur, put on, bloodless, about it. These guys used to have real fire, and nothing here catches. It's an exercise in hoping, under-desperately, that something will stick 3.5/5

#2844 Hannah Williams - Late Nights and Heartbreak

The title track's a stunner - Williams brings it, the song smoldering, smoldering, smoldering, flame. The rest's not up to those highs. It's all a big generous slice of 60's revival, those big Stax horns and backing vocals coming for your soul, but it doesn't quite escape the orbit of its influences 3.5/5

#2843 Shannon and the Clams - Onion

what sounds at first like a crass piece of 60's revivalism ends up being a surprisingly-great piece of 60's revivalism. You could slip any of these songs into a Nuggets comp and they wouldn't be out of place. Hell, most'd stand a chance of being a standout -- those organs, those swooning vocals, that fuzzed out production, I wanna sneer, but shit they stick the landing. As solid a collection of garagey psych cracklers as you're gonna find in 2018 4/5

#2842 All Against Logic - 2012-2017

Darkside's Nicolas Jaar is a goddamn genius, an absolute master of pacing and rewiring the human mind. A maddeningly listenable collection packed with perfect samples - this is Endtroducing // Play (less gross ed.)-level stuff. Live feel pours out of this record, that drunken sense that you can let go of the wheel - dude's got this. You're in good hands. Buzzes, repetition, slow turns against the grain, and all those perfect vocal snippets - an effortlessly great front to back listen, possible best album of 2018 so far 4.5/5