Terror Danjah - "The Dark Crawler" 2012
This album is decent. This dude is a relatively well known grime producer. As with any grime styled stuff, I always prefer the instrumental jams over the rappers jibber jabbering in their British accents. This album is about 70% instrumental, so that's a pretty good ratio for me to enjoy it. What I noticed about this album is that either this is a little more ambitious or broad scoped than most stuff that is labelled as grime, or I just didn't know this style of grime existed. Either way, I find a lot of this stuff kinda hard to categorize, which is a good thing to me. I hate it when you can just stick things in a box and call it a day.It's better to be surprised by diversity. A lot of these tracks have a softer edge to them than most grime i've heard, but at the same time, none of the songs really come off as actually sounding soft or poppy. It's a thin line he's walking on here and doing it pretty well. There's a little something for everyone on here. Check out this trippy video for "Dark Crawler (Interlude) featuring Riko Dan. Also check out "Dark Gremlinz" featuring DOK and "You Make Me Feel" featuring Maleka.
Fuzz - "Fuzz" 2013
Fuzz is the new 3-piece project fronted by Ty Segall. Instead of him singing and playing guitar, which is what he usually does, he is singing while playing the drums in this band. It's insane to me that this is not his main instrument, but yet he is a better drummer than a lot of drummers I hear. I got a chance to catch these guys live last week, and the show was a must-see. All 3 guys are really talented and it shows. This album has a classic rock vibe to it, and I would recommend them to people who really like Black Sabbath and Jimi Hendrix. Check out this video for this non-album track, "Fourth Dream", to get an idea of how good they are in concert. Also check out "Loose Sutures", "Sleigh Ride", and "HazeMaze". Also check out this other non-album track, a nice cover of King Crimson's "21st Century Schizoid Man".
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