Hurry Up and Wait

Research paper due next week, feature article in the works, and at east three finals ahead of me. How I am finding time for new artists is beyond me! However I do have a few interesting tracks for you this week, along with an album just released! The title of the blog this week feels like it's mirroring my life, and this music, right now. Hurry up and do all my work for classes, then wait a few days for a new load of impossible goals to be doled out. Sigh. Almost there though!


Easy by Malefique

As you may very well know by now, I have a soft spot for funky beatsrumentals. Perhaps no artist I have discovered in the past few weeks embodies the spirit of a classic, soulful hip-hop instrumental than Malefique. A beatmaster from the heart of Russia, Malefiques signature sound prescribes an "atmosphere for each, the tracks under which one might think, laugh, mourn."

Easy, which opens with a up-pitched and energetic sample of Linonel Richie's Easy Like Sunday Morning  holds the crackling, looped, catchy characteristics of a perfect beatstrumental. Malefique's excellently time chops and superb production provide a grade A example of a quality hip-hop instrumental. One that I will be using as my alarm in the morning for quite awhile! 

ramachandran #japan -bugseed's sequel- (Fancy Mike - Sigma Chi Primavera) by bugseed.

Following in the same vein as Malefique, though quite in another direction, is bugseed. More experimental in his technique, Bugseed's sound is imbued with qualities more akin to yahn look picard's lazy beats from my post 2 weeks ago. Making frequent use of dirty signals, such as distorted beats, and compression along with a pleasing array of percussion instruments and modulating synths, Bugseed throws digital paint across his soundscape like it's playtime.

Check out his soundcloud for more smoky sounds and bodacious beats. 

Take Care, Take Care, Take Care by Constant Artists

Next up, with a change of scenery, is the new post-rock album by Texas-based band Explosions In The Sky. Traveling back to their roots after a short departure in to multi-instrumental experiments on their last album, So Long, Lonesome, Take Care is a return to the simpler, and earlier, style of Explosions sound. Composed with a few guitars, a drum kit, and a bass guitar, the dynamic crescendo and decrescendos so familiar to Explosions style is fortified on this album and, as always, writes a story of emotion evident from the first track. If you have never heard of post-rock before this post, this is a perfect starting album as it exhibits all the classic, and well-performed, aspects of the genre. Long, drawn-out movements of sonic ether that heave and sigh in perfect unison. Whether you're listening to this album as you fall asleep on a rainy night, or conquering a mountain at daybreak the emotion of this album will lend itself to you.

That's all for this week! I had a few more artists lined up but have decided to wait until next week to showcase them. Quality over quantity, right? Until next time!