Earth marks a new beginning for O'Brien
" the 12-bar blues of "Jesus Just Left Chicago
SIX was the last album Hugh Hopper made with Soft Machine
gives the album a stripclub number in Ying Yang Twins style where everyone sounds like they're having the proper amount of fun
where Madlib takes on the personas of numerous instrumentalists (going so far as to credit them individually in the liner notes) and make laid-back break-heavy jams that serve great as background party stuff -- and that's really where Shades of Blue works the best
YOUNG THE GIANT release-year-2014 Earth marks a new beginningThe West Coast jazz evoking album jacket of Young the Giant's self titled debut doesn't exactly paint an accurate picture of the California quintet's breezy modern rock sound, but it does complement it quite nicely. Here's a band signed to a heavy metal label, whose music is anything but, and which actually excels through recurring shows of subtlety, not force. That's not to say Young the Giant don't know how to rock; tracks like "My Body," "Garands,"