Listen. I am diving deeper and deeper down into the abyss that is bar review, and I don't really have much time to stop and chat these days. So allow me a little straight talk before I disappear for a while.

This is the sh!% I’m on right now:

Major Lazer & La Roux - Lazerproof. One of my favorite voices in pop, but instead of the gaudy, overly slick club tracks, you get Major Lazer's crazy combination of dancehall, dub, and hip-hop backing her up. Loving this right now. And you can get it here for free!

The Jam:


Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti – Before Today. Not for everyone, but if you like a little weirdness in your musical diet, you might love it. Lo-fi project from a dude fixated on that crazy musical transition from the 70s to the 80s, except it's all scuzzy and sloppy and sleezy and, well, haunted grafitti is an oddly appropriate name. LA hears the Bee Gees, DB referenced MJ, and I'm picking up little bits of early punk/no wave. Only in 2010.

The Jam (better off closing your eyes for this atrocity of a video):


Caetano Veloso – Zii E Zie. Tropicalia icon still going strong, released a breezy album of perfect little oddball gems with customary eeeease. The Jam: ‘Base de Guantanamo’

Christian Scott – Yesterday You Said Tomorrow. Super cool jazz trumpet prodigy steeped in hip-hop and rock. The Jam: swell cover of Thom Yorke’s ‘The Eraser’

Foxes in Fiction – Swung from the Branches. Side A super dreamy ambient, Side B poor man’s Atlas Sound. A smattering of A Sunny Day in Glasgow, maybe a small dose of Post-era Bjork. Like drifting in and out of sleep.

The Jam: