Hell yeah, Maggot Brain is an all-timer for sure. All of those are great but Maggot Brain is something else

Any you haven't heard catch your interest?

It definitely is, Jamiroquai don't get talked about often but they have some great tracks

agreed, that verse you did was crazy

got a lot of great pics from the woods show last night but this akai solo photo might be my favorite.

Same, hoping for Checkpoints big time

Everyone really loves to talk about TVU but Transformer might be the best project Lou Reed made

Inflammable Material by Stiff Little Fingers has to be top 5 for me, and The First Two Records by Bikini Kill

I'll give them a listen on the morrow, completely unfamiliar with their music.

Interesting the way the world shifts around atrocity. Making a mental bookmark to check out this Chat Pile record, but Revelator was excellent.

Depending on the day, this could be the greatest hip hop record of all time for me

Listened to Madness' "One Step Beyond", 808 State's "90" & Jamiroquai's "Emergency on Planet Earth" tonight. My favorite is on Jamiroquai but Madness is pretty tight as well, anyone have particular thoughts on these records?

On the last track, I'm pretty mixed on it off a first listen. Feels far less deliberate than every other album he's released thus far, a lot of the tracks kind of feel just neutral, which is a way I rarely feel about Kendrick. Has some great ones too, but its a far more casual affair.

how you feeling about it? giving it a listen rn

a notable contender for hardest album cover ever

Animal Collective feels like it should be in the mentions

Bob Dylan's rendition of A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall at the Montreal Forum in 1975 might be his greatest live performance. Its this one and his performance of Isis for me. Energy unbounded.

Anyone said Strictly Business yet? Feels pretty crucial

Revelator is far from hollow, with Elucid delivering many of the quotables he is known for over a colder and more distant soundscape, but he continues to find difficulty in holding solid ground throughout.

Smaller, snippet-esque tracks such as "Hushpuppies" seem to hold little bearing to a grander meaning at all. Although his efforts throughout are admirable, and incomparable to many other attempts made by artists of his scene, parts of Revelator seem almost lost.

It makes Revelator at large a difficult listen, each track providing a new musing to dissect, but once dissected provides little else. The puzzles formed through unconventional sequencing are interesting but not long-lasting, and tracks that stuck with me trend closer to Elucid's traditional works.

Both rappers give much to think about, but where woods' verbose phrasing inspires thought from a grand comparison to historic events or lifestyle, Elucid's inspires a solemn look inside oneself. His more public affections give way to a more closed perspective in his music, an isolated rumination.

The two star tracks for me are "Bad Pollen" & "In The Shadow Of If" - Bad Pollen demonstrates how well Elucid can play off his partner-in-arms woods. It's been well overstated, to the length where I feel Elucid gets overshadowed, but this dichotomy provides insight to the record's remainder.

More so than any other hip-hop record I've heard of late, Revelator completely abandons the long-standing bases of the genre, the old friends of jazz, blues & funk. It feeds off repeated mantras, drawing power off these refrains.

Revelator feels like a culmination to a few long-running veins in the underground scene - fusing the familiar but ever-changing abstract music found on Elucid's prior records like "I Told Bessie" & with an all-new electronica that sounds almost similar to Divine Styler "Spiral Walls".

My Thoughts on Elucid's Newest Record, Revelator -

Its still Dark Souls. Every From Software game since, all of which are great, to be clear, has been translating the original magic of Dark Souls into new settings and concepts. Without the original Dark Souls, we're nowhere.

Hooper's Lifeforce!!

favorite sly track?

1. If I Could Only Fly - Blaze Foley
2. Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands - Bob Dylan
3. Got Flicked (The Rebirth) - Boldy James
4. Exuma, the Obeah Man - Exuma
5. I Got The... - Labi Siffre

Out of these 5, my money's on Labi Siffre, but all great. Love Buckley's rendition of Hallelujah
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