EVERYTHING AT ONCE is a cinematic full-length production brimming with confidence, introducing Tony Glausi the polymath. “Coming out of high school and studying music in college, I was pretty fixated on jazz trumpet playing, and my earlier releases were heavily oriented around improvisation and swing,” Glausi explains. “But as I continue to write and explore new sounds, I feel like I get closer and closer to my true voice, one record at a time.” EVERYTHING AT ONCE is an album of places, faces, and interactions. Quite simply, Tony Glausi has created a mixtape to his life, thanks, in part, to his willingness to try anything. “The album is literally a two year snapshot of my life. Each story is like a scene from a film, or I guess 10 different films” Glausi concludes.
Jackson Whalan, a lyricist and producer creating eclectic hip-hop with a modern flair to invoke positive societal change. His music is influenced by a mix of iconic artists that came before him which include but aren’t limited to J. Dilla, De La Soul, and Bruce Springsteen among others.
This time around, Whalan draws inspiration from one of the most prolific songwriters of our time, John Lennon, and covers the provocative song “Gimme Some Truth”. Unlike “Imagine”, “Gimme Some Truth” juxtaposes the idyllic song and screams out for answers to the problematic world we live in.
Whether it is quieter, willowy numbers such as “Circles,” the Sound of Philadelphia-style creaminess of “Hand Me Downs,” the carnival psychedelia of “Hands” or the robo-R&B of “Complicated” and “Blue World,” what differentiates this new album from its immediate predecessor is Miller’s choice (or that of his family in tandem with Brion) to keep the proceedings uncluttered. variety
Between melodic and depressive ambient music, ironic rap-punk and electronica Nicolas-Jaar French pop, Iñigo Montoya is definitively a French project without borders. Their imaginary and ironic texts mock both the hypocrisy of an individualistic society, the standardization, the bourgeois classe and give a new message of a return to a fantasized Eden.
Flight to the Jungle is a 'prelude' to the Flowering Jungle album. Meant to be an intermission between taking off from Mystery Cove and landing in the Flowering Jungle, the collection of tracks scores a hazy trip over various lands. The single consists of tracks from both the Mystery Cove and Flowering Jungle sessions.
I named the album 'Otaku' to poke fun at myself and my love for anime/Japan. It also falls in line with Lofi Hip Hop's obsession with the anime aesthetic. I always joke with my friends that I'm a step away from getting a body pillow. I also wanted to explore the stigma behind it and question its definition. I don't think people should judge each other so harshly.
Inspired by the sounds, visuals, and animals of a half-century's worth of travel and nature documentaries, Flowering Jungle acts as a companion piece to exploring new and exotic landscapes, wildlife, and communities. The album's artwork mirrors this concept by featuring portraits of jungle birds in flower-adorned 'nests' overtop an abstracted flag of The Flowering Jungle
14 years and 700 episodes of Stylin' on Melbourne's 3RRR-FM, but you get the presents! Stylin' 700 includes many unreleased and under-the-radar cuts, with music from Australia, New Zealand, UK, Japan, France, Spain, Portugal and no less than 13 US states. Mostly originals, as well as some surprising versions of James Blake, Bobby Womack, Thelonious Monk, James Brown, Richie Havens/Bill Evans and Ann Peebles.
Digging further beneath the surface of these tunes reveals producers and musicians with credits extending to everyone from Horace Andy, Robert Glasper, Butcher Brown, Roy Hargrove and Eddie Palmieri to Carl Craig, MF Doom, Tall Black Guy, Drake, Thundercat, Chance the Rapper, Louie Vega, Miles Bonny, Ayatollah and Q-Tip.
Described as “schizoid pop” (a term I am not ready to accept), Twenty One Pilots – duo, Tyler Joseph and Josh Dun – became a hot buzz word in 2012 when they signed with Fueled by Ramen and then released a three-song teaser EP, aptly titled, “Three Songs.” With their debut full-length album, “Vessel,” the Columbus, Ohio natives are poised to take over the music scene.
I know what you think in the morning
When the sun shines on the ground
And shows what you have done
It shows where your mind has gone.
And you swear to your parents
That it will never happen again
I know, I know what that means
I know
That you all have guns
And you never put the safety on
And you all have plans
To take it, don't take it
I'm trying, I'm trying to sleep
I'm trying, I'm trying to sleep
But I can't, but I can't when you all have
Guns for hands, yeah.
Let's take this one second at a time
Let's take this one song, this one rhyme
Together, let's breathe
Together, to the beat
But there's hope out the window
So that's where we'll go
Let's go outside and all join hands
But until then you'll never understand...
We've turned our hands to guns, trade in our thumbs for ammunition,
I must forewarn you, of my disorder, or my condition,
'Cause when the sun sets, it upsets what's left of my invested interest,
Interested in putting my fingers to my head,
The solution is, I see a whole room of these mutant kids,
Fused at the wrist, I simply tell them they should shoot at this,
Simply suggest my chest and this confused music, it's,
Obviously best for them to turn their guns to a fist.
Guns for Hands’ is the showpiece of the album. If you have to choose one song to listen to, make it this one. The heart-pounding chorus explodes in waves, the drums and vocals combine to give us a nice ebb-and-flow that will keep listeners coming back. The verse is deceivingly mild; the message hidden within is more serious than the light-hearted tone lets on. It’s big, it’s deep, and it’s the best song on the album. ‘Trees’ follows, and it gives ‘Guns for Hands’ a run for its money. It makes the album go out with a bang before ‘Truce,’ the softest song on the album. ‘Truce’ ends the album on a somber note, but one of freedom and hope. TD
