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In an age where countless SoundCloud musicians vie for the fickle attentions of blogging tastemakers, Death Grips are the unlikely masters of hype. The California trio of vocalist Stefan “MC Ride” Burnett, producer Andy “Flatlander” Morin, and drummer Zach Hill (one half of Hella) have quickly become something of a cult phenomenon. Last year, their Exmilitary mixtape made […]
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The entirety of Dan Deacon’s oeuvre is centred around juxtaposition. The Baltimore composer always sets his disparate influences against each other, rather than simply blending them together. For instance, on his last album, 2009’s excellent Bromst, he takes as much influence from Brian Wilson as he does Steve Reich, but it sounds little like either. […]