LODRO - If Life Was Like A Movie

Just as Daft Punk wowed us this year with their big budget
major studio produced album, other artists are scaling down and
going dirty in the comfort of their modest Brooklyn apartments.

Comprised of Jeremy Cox and Jigmae Hann of Royal Baths
and  Lesley Hann of Friends, LODRO barely have tour plans
or an album in the works. But they are working, unfurling hazy
rocking jams influenced by noir films like
this lurching testament to trenchcoat swagger.

As if we haven't been inundated with enough new genres,
they have blessed us with this slice of 'neo noir punk'.
Skip the femme fatale in the red dress and
check out the rhythm section and that guitar riff.

FKA twigs - Papi Pacify (Video)

FKA twigs made quite a dent in the R&B landscape
last year when she dropped her EP. In four tracks,
this mysterious siren from Britain guided us through
her dark sensual R&B funhouse. Her next release
EP2 will be out 10/19/13 on Young Turks.

This new joint is a storm in slow motion produced
by Arca, fresh off his hand in Kanye West's 'Yeezus.'
With cavernous percussion, globs of reverb
and stately strings, he sets the stage for FKA twigs
to plea for a lover's assurance.

The video, directed by Tom Beard, features her in the arms
 of a burly ambiguously menacing dreaded lover whose
caresses border on sinister.

Better still, there are copious amounts of body glitter.
Let your jaw drop and finally admit....
you like glitter.

Freddie Gibbs & Madlib - Deeper

The pairing of Freddie Gibbs literally sounds like a no-brainer

though somewhat a left-field, unexpected move.

Who woulda thunk the Baby Face Killa, the last Mohican

of pure gangsta rap would ever coast over a blunted groove

from Stones' Throw incognegro Madlib? 

Few could have seen that coming.

Well, they actually got an album due February 4 via Madlib Invazion

titled 'Pinata' (originally titled 'Cocaine Pinata',  *a way sicker title!*).

This single here is our first drag of audio kush.

Madlib, souful as ever, loops a violin (the 

world's smallest) with Gibbs in full storytelling mode,

chronicling his misadventures with a scandalous ho.

It's a gangsta soap opera....i.e. AWESOME.