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  • Not So Random Success: Daft Punk, ‘Random Access Memories’

    Although the anticipation for a new album from the electro legends sponsored much of the album’s success, part of it can undoubtedly be attributed to its message. [continued]

  • Childish Gambino, ‘Because the Internet’

    Childish Gambino, ‘Because the Internet’

    Overall, Because the Internet is at the height of relevancy, a truly modern album that examines modern human relationships within the ever invading influence of the world wide web and the trappings of fame. [continued]

  • An Interview With: Ticho

    Eric Clapton once declared: “there is something primitively soothing about blues, and it goes straight to my nervous system, making me feel ten feet tall.” In St Andrews, there’s no need to look very far to have this feeling – just go and listen to Ticho. [continued]

  • M.I.A, ‘Matangi’

    Diverse and wrought with political aggression, yet also with glimpses of the personal behind the rage. It’s possibly M.I.A’s most commercial work to date, yet also some of her most experimental. [continued]

  • A New City – ‘Vapor City’

    A New City – ‘Vapor City’

    Travis Stewart AKA Machinedrum has done something different with his debut album on Ninja Tune, titled Vapor City – a concept album. [continued]

  • Rap and French Suburban Identity

    Je suis l’espace où je suis: Constructing banlieue identity in French rap music. [continued]

  • Sunday Mourning: An Homage to Lou Reed

    The pounding, propelling percussion, the distinct twang of guitar and a constant, driving piano riff, all ascending into a honky tonk, trance like rhythm, then swiftly and suddenly interrupted by a distinct snarling vocal; “I’m waiting for the man… 26 dollars in my hand” as we’re instantly launched into the seemingly autobiographical tale of a junkie headed… [continued]

  • Hip Hop 2013: Ones To Watch

    Hip Hop 2013: Ones To Watch

    There’s no denying it, 2012 was momentous for Hip Hop. From your car radio, to the freshest club music, to MTV Award Ceremonies, Hip Hop well and truly dominated 2012. Nestled between a lacklustre, acoustic, lulling indie scene and an EDM obsessed succession of chart hits, Hip Hop gave us a refreshing, unique and varied… [continued]

  • Gig Review: Heems

    December 2nd 2012, was a sad day for hip hop music. The dynamic, ironic, yet lyrically fantastic rap group that was Das Racist unceremoniously called it quits, with a series of mystical tweets raising question as to the relationships within the group and the future of Das Racist itself. That was it, no more witticisms… [continued]

  • An Interview With: Ondine Benetier

    Ondine Benetier, writer and producer for Parisian music collective La Blogothèque, gives her view on one of the best Soirées de Poche, that of Nils Frahm, a German pianist and composer. PressPlay presents… La Blogothèque from PressPlay on Vimeo. Nils’ Soirée de Poche in full can be found here. Who’s music’s saviour? Fuck, this is an… [continued]