The Stumptown Groove
Debut albums are imperfect by nature. For most artists, the first album release is them announcing their arrival to the game, with raw talent often overpowering any lyrical prowess or top tier production. But that’s not the case with Leon Thomas’ debut album, Electric Dust, in which the 30 year old phenom drops a masterful […]
Throughout its discography, Summer Salt has consistently chased and succeeded to capture a feeling: the feeling of cruising along a curved road on a warm summer day, sun-soaked air tossing your hair in every direction. Or the feeling of laying on a sandy beach on the warmest afternoon of the year, floating in the balance […]
Daniel Caesar knows what he’s good at. The 28 year-old Toronto native is known for singing about love, relationships, and making sense of it all through soul and gospel-inspired tracks. Caesar knows his niche, and on his third LP Never Enough, released April 7, the R&B singer doesn’t stray far from his usual tricks — […]
“Forever” feels like the right word when describing most of the songs on M83’s newest record, Forever, where ambient, drawn-out tracks meet the new wave percussion and synths that has kept the French electronic group at the forefront of dream pop for the last quarter-century. More than anything, Forever sounds like an escape into infinity, […]
On his third studio album, Since I Have a Lover, Ricardo Valdez Valentine Jr., better known as 6lack, largely sticks to his tried-and-trued repertoire of songs dedicated to love, relationships, sorrow, and finding happiness in relationship and himself — and he pulls it off, with songs like “Fatal Attraction” and “Stories in Motion” showing off […]
The Stumptown Groove 