02/16 - Whispering As We Tumbled

Aaah! No discipline! Top 5 is slipping through my fingers! Yet; I've got music! Enough candidates for three lists. So here goes the first:

Cali Swag District - Teach Me How To Dougie

What can one add, except; can someone teach me how to dougie?

Fat Tony ft. Kool A.D. & Despot - Hood Party

Funniest rap about gentrification you'll ever hear. Can't wait for a full length from Despot, he's my fav underground rapper.

Stop asking where Brooklyn at coulda just looked on a map
Half the cats yelling back ain't where they're from just where they're at
Running from their stubborn dads, lunches that their mothers bagged
Hunches that they gon' be something good for nothing college grads

Pusha T ft. Ab Liva - Got Em Covered

If I would've ended up doing a best of 2016 like I should have, King Push would have been a contender. The beats on this album are something else. They get under my skin, they clatter and clank along beside me on the street.

Velvet Underground - I Heard Her Call My Name

Has a guitar ever sounded this violent? Only VU would think to juxtapose that with what is essentially a pop song....

...and then my mind split open!

Robin Trower - Daydream

It's guitar revival day it seems. Sometimes you just gotta lay it on. The timing here is everything. It's like every beat hangs lazily in the air, before settling in with a rumble. Meanwhile the guitar holds back, and holds back, ...and then spurts like an adrenaline rush!