One of the prime architects of the organic grooves later dubbed trip-hop, Nightmares on Wax deserted their early formula in 2002 only when it became respectable and a crossover appeared most likely.
George Evelyn's solo step as Nightmares on Wax, Smokers Delight, is a whole delightfully irreducible to its parts, which, as with earlier releases, is largely electro, hip-hop, and soul, with bits of Latin percussion and down-tempo funk thrown in.
Homegrown experimentalism abounds, the music feeling wildly possessed with interplaying orbits of distorted field recordings, chamber folk & new age tranquility, courtly vocal chants & organ lines, free-jazz guitar interplay, post-punk addled sound collag
The 2007 album from the Swedish singer/songwriter. After a breakthrough debut album, more than three full North American tours in one year a tour with Zero 7 and major TV performances, José González returns with this, his sophomore album.
Reviving the Chet Faker persona he'd abandoned back in 2016, Nick Murphy finds salvation in the hypnotic grooves and dark electronic soul of Hotel Surrender.
