After a summer spent listening to grimy hip hop beats and hooks, supporting the re-release of Sugar and Feathered, and making 4 track demos, Aspera converged at Tonearm Studios to begin work on their third album. Oh Fantastica continues a darkly thematic tradition established with Sugar and Feathered and the follow up Birds Fly EP (Suicide Squeeze) but strays from both records overwrought psychedelia (oft compared to Flaming Lips and Mercury Rev). Oh Fantastica is full of minimal yet memorable melodies dri...   [ read more ]

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Nice & Smooth returned for a second album that injected a much-needed and entirely welcome sense of the absurd into the generally far too austere and sincere New York City underground hip-hop community, which has traditionally sacrificed humor for hardcore technique when it comes to rhyming. Greg Nice and Smooth B., however, are often downright silly and goofball on Ain't a Damn Thing Changed. Despite the conscientious-sounding title, there is very little on the album that is concerned with any...   [ read more ]

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VINYL FORMAT. After a summer spent listening to grimy hip-hop beats and hooks, supporting the re-release of "Sugar and Feathered," and making four-track demos, Aspera converged at Tonearm Studios to begin work on their third album. "Oh, Fantastica" continues a darkly thematic tradition established with "Sugar and Feathered" and the follow up, "Birds Fly" EP (Suicide Squeeze), but strays from both records' overwrought psychedelia (oft compared to Flaming Lips and Mercury Rev). "Oh, Fantastica" is full of mi...   [ read more ]

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