(Sunday 3 July through Sunday 10 July)

Fresh -Ish)

Albums, mixtapes, EPs, whatever… Not all new releases! … every fresh(-ish) project I’ve listened through over the last week, whether with deep intent or in the background while I’m trying to get my head round something else.
Rated! … nothing to do with quality! WTF would I know about quality? …based on how likely I am to go back to it, or bits of it, with 5* meaning it’s already been on repeat…

Rap & post-Rap

Apollo Brown: This Must Be The Place (Mello Music Group) | 1* | …cued this up in a moment of madness, forgetting how much instrumental hip-hop totally does my head in… more than any other score I’ve ever given on here, this one’s really no reflection on quality, in the slightest…
Brent Faiyaz: Wasteland (Venice Music/Stem/Lost Kids) | 3* |
Burna Boy: Love, Damini (Atlantic/Bad Habit/Spaceship) | 3* |
Example: We May Grow Old But We Never Grow Up (BMG) | 2* |
J Scienide: Chaos Cycle (Fat Beats Records) | 5 * |
Joe Blow: Smoke & Mirrors (Veteran Records) | 4* |
Joe Snow & Jack Danz: Def Sentence (Lucidia) | 4* |
Kota The Friend: Memo (Venice Music/Fltbys) | 2* |
Mother Nature: Nature’s World (Closed Sessions) | 4* |
Sleep Sinatra: Brainstormz (698570 Records) | 3* |
Snoop Dogg: Presents Death Row Summer 2022 (Death Row Records) | 2* |
Teller Bank$: Skull Face: 666 (Highzmen Records) | 3* |