Thought I would use this space to pos­si­bly rec­om­mend some music I have bought recently.

P-Love — All Up In Your Mind (Bully Records)
P-Love rose to fame help­ing Kid Koala on his tours, both being Mon­treal natives. Then Marco Bully got a hold of him to do some 7“s for his Six­too affli­ated label. This is a lovely lovely album, full of warm and beau­ti­ful melodies, crisp drums, and uncom­mon for an album of this sound…it’s all played live, mostly by P-Love him­self. Instru­men­tal hip hop with an elec­tronic influ­ence is the order of the day here. Fans of Express Ris­ing, Six­too, Block­head, etc. would do well to check it out!

FBC Fab­ric & Rein­deer — It’s Not Who You Know, It’s Whom You Know (But­ter­cuts)
The sim­plest descrip­tion for this UK hip-hop album is: Boards of Canada + Radio­head team up to make a proper hip hop album. Cin­e­matic, urban, epic, inti­mate, and full of waves of synths and strings, this is one of the most unique hip-hop albums I’ve ever head. It’s about half instru­men­tal, half vocal, char­ac­ter­ized by it’s melody and atmos­phere laden pro­duc­tion by FBC and the Thom Yorke-like sub­ject mat­ter of the intro­spec­tive Reindeer.

Var­i­ous Artists: Wel­come To the Neo Golden Age Vol. 1 (Equinox)
Spec­tac­u­lar first com­pi­la­tion from the pre­vi­ously vinyl only Equinox label. Elec­tronic instru­men­tal­ism of all types makes it’s home here, with an empha­sis on melody and com­plex beats. From the more hip hop ori­ented pieces by DJ Sci­en­tist to the more exper­i­men­tal Arc­Sin work, this is a tremen­dously sat­is­fy­ing com­pi­la­tion of well crafted music. Seek it out.