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Not spotless by any means (for one, you can pinpoint the exact reference point for that first wish song, and as it turns out this New Sincerity Soundcloud Collage shit ain't easy!) but look, I'm a perpetually isolated fuck-up with a closet affection for pop chart flotsam and a tendency to go on absent-minded LiveMixtapes download sprees. Sorry but this is the only music that makes sense to me currently.

A heartwarming story about inclusion and solidarity: it doesn't matter whether you're man or woman, rich or poor, whether you pray to The Fall or the Stones - you too can be an asshole.

I mean kudos to these guys for figuring out how to keep the Drum Trax era going for a brief minute while everything else either fell into the full-on "deconstructed club" pile, disappeared into irrelevance or got into techno. It all teeters on the right edge of dark & heavy, and everyone composes themselves well - a lot of the offerings pick up on the reggaeton streak on the previous label comp and emphasize it, meanwhile WW5's siren fleet means business, something hard & ... read more

The Grind does not break the rule about British bass music b-sides instantly vaporizing from memory when they're not being listened to, no matter how decent and dubby they are. That A-side though? Hoo boy. Convinced that if you erased Erstwhile Rhythm and its muffled cobblestone piano line from history James Blake is assistant store manager at a Dunelm somewhere in Enfield instead.