South London multi-instrumentalist Tom Misch, and Yussef Dayes, one of the UK's most innovative young drummers, come together to bring us What Kinda Music - an astonishing collaboration between two artists of very different disciplines.
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Man Alive! Doesn't aim to present any kind of narrative thread, or Brexit-era state- of-the-nation address, just a collection of snapshots and stories, artfully sequenced into a dazzlingly coherent whole.
The third full-length from Jacob Allen feels nocturnal and ruminative - spanning the low-slung iridescence of trip-hop, the xx's moody rhythmic pop, and the stark intimacy of artists like Benjamin Booker and mark william lewis.
La Dispute's WILDLIFE, the follow-up to their 2008 LP, SOMEWHERE AT THE BOTTOM OF THE RIVER BETWEEN VEGA AND ALTAIR, is a nearly 60-minute musical examination of the twenty something search for purpose