#362 Wax Tailor - Tales of the Forgotten Melodies

Another one from Nicole, though also mentioned by Dave Stout, independently, the same night I first heard it. Odd!

Now we're talking - this is the highlight of the recent crackly instrumental something-hop finds. The more atmospheric bits evoke DJ Shadow, but the feel is something different, with touches of RJD2's rockism, Bonobo's world glances, and plenty of Frontier Psychiatrist's hyper-chopped conversation sample tone poems. Overall, it feels more loosely narrative, with themes bookending the first and last songs, and woven in between, trading Endtroducing's watercolor blobs for something more starkly rendered. It also spends less time wallowing in any particular theme or approach, starting off hazy, then moving into sample driven hip hop production for a couple songs (Where My Heart's At is an unexpected highlight), working across a wide swath of approaches. I dig it 4/5

You might like this if: You like atmospheric, vocal-sample-crammed instrumental hip hop and don't mind if it kicks out of the deep groove to swerve off into flights of fancy from time to time.