I don’t want to spoil the twist in the breathtaking video for George “joji” Miller’s new single “Slow Dancing in the Dark” but just let me say it’s a sublime surprise that falls right in line with the dark and bloody but whimsically beautiful imagery that has become a hallmark[…]
Archy “King Krule” Marshall does what he does best—moody neo-noirish Alternative Pop that seems equally inspired by Hip-Hop, vintage Jazz, Post-Punk, and Shoegaze—on his newest single “Biscuit Town”. The video, which finds him inhabiting the grim environs of a darkly surreal diorama model of a retro-futuristic dystopian city with decidedly[…]
I added “Delete Delete” by Beyoncé and Run the Jewels collaborator Jordan Asher “BOOTS” Cruz to my Spotify workplace playlist when it was released a couple of weeks ago and promptly forgot it existed. Then, last night, it dropped in the middle of a twelve hour graveyard shift and made[…]
“Will He”, a piano-fueled Trip-Hop meets Trap slow jam from YouTube personality turned musician George “joji” Miller, was easily one of 2017’s most memorable tracks for me. So you can imagine I’m quite pleased that Canadian beatmaker Ryan Hemsworth has delivered a fresh remix that not only extends the tune’s[…]
The video for joji’s “Window” may be the most ambitious video so far from what may be my favorite record of last year but I’m not sure it tonally matches the music as well as some of the other clips he’s released. It sure is weird, and a little bloody,[…]
The visuals for Youtube personality turned troubadour joji’s “Demons” are simple but elegant and appropriately melancholy. “Demons” is the second single from joji’s outstanding debut EP ‘In Tongues’ which is out now via 88rising. joji
Watch King Krule and his band of zombies do a new millennium monster mash in the ooky-spooky video clip for his smooth new Bossa-Nova-tinged single “Dum Surfer”. “Dum Surfer” is the second track released from the British troubadour’s forthcoming sophomore LP, ‘The Ooz’, due out October 13th on True Panther[…]
Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett’s “virtual band” Gorillaz is back with a 360-degree interactive video, replete with Lovecraftian tentacle monsters, for their new Caribbean-spiced auto-tune Electro-Dancehall-Pop tune “Saturnz Barz (Spirit House)”. “Saturnz Barz”, which features vocals from Popcaan, is the first single from the animated group’s forthcoming fifth LP ‘Humanz’,[…]
I didn’t feel like doing a ton of work this week, so tonight’s Monday Magick entry is going to be a quickie. It’s a song I’ve been sitting on for a while from an act I featured in this space only a few short weeks ago. The band is none[…]
The last few months have seen some weird ups and downs here on Monday Magick. Those mood and tone shifts have largely been inspired by my personal life and my feelings about magick as it relates to my daily experience. This week I’d like to get back to the more[…]
Trip-Hop godfathers Massive Attack join forces with Alt-Rap hooligans Young Fathers for a guttural, motorik-driven Electro-Industrial audio track and a creepy sci-fi-inspired video on “Voodoo in My Blood”. “Voodoo in My Blood” is the first single from Massive Attack’s ‘Ritual Spirit’ EP, which also features Roots Manuva and former group[…]
London-based producer and multi-instrumentalist Will Archer, a.k.a. Slime, has delivered one of the smoothest R&B jams I’ve heard in a long while, despite his sorta icky alias. Blending ’80s Quiet Storm and Sophistipop influences, the moodiness of ’90s Downtempo and Trip-Hop, Smooth-Jazz instrumentation, and a whole lot of sexy, “Hot[…]
