DJ Sabrina the Teenage DJ - Destiny

While there are definitely some fun spots, Destiny is pretty exhausting as an overall experience.

The Avalanches - Since I Left You

CLASSICS WEEK 2023 comes to a close with the sampledelic gold standard.

Lil Ugly Mane - Volcanic Bird Enemy and the Voiced Concern

What's all this then?

DJ Sabrina the Teenage DJ - Charmed

Charmed is a house album with plenty of personality, but over the course of 3+ hours it can grow tedious.

The Avalanches - We Will Always Love You

For as stylistically cohesive and seamlessly flowing as We Will Always Love You is, it's somehow a tale of two albums.

Blarf - Cease & Desist

Comedian and actor Eric André's very own musical side-project serves up a wild, sample-based ride into the demented side of plunderphonics on Cease & Desist. Not only that, but this record also serves as a giant middle finger to the limitations modern copyright law places on artistic expression within the auditory realm. Equal parts absurd and revolutionary: This is Blarf.

Girl Talk & Erick the Architect - “Trouble in Paradise”

Electronic producer Girl Talk is best known for his mashup albums that came out in the second half of the 2000s. On Night Ripper, Feed the Animals, and All Day, he mixed classic pop and rock songs with the top hip hop and pop tunes of the day. Though the selection is dated by now, the variety and fluidity of the mixes still makes them exciting listens.

His new single “Trouble in Paradise” with Erick the Architect of Flatbush Zombies just passes the two-minute mark. The track’s only sample is the pulsing bass and some vocal snippets from Julian Casablancas + The Voidz’s “Take Me in Your Army,” which gives “Trouble in Paradise” a dark, synthetic sound. Erick delivers a passionate verse about over-policing and police violence, but spends the second half of the track saying the hook ad nauseam.

Girl Talk’s last release was 2014’s Broken Ankles EP, a collaboration with Philly rapper Freeway. Flatbush Zombies dropped their sophomore album, Vacation in Hell, earlier this month.

-Owen Murray

Superorganism - Self-Titled

Though it could be more consistent and substantial, this debut album from Superorganism will probably go down as one of the year's most creative pop projects.