Coin Locker Kid - Traumnovelle

Previously mentioned Coin Locker Kid has one of the most unorthodox approaches to hip hop that I've heard in the past few years. I didn't love the last full-length I heard from him, but I still left puzzled by his odd rhymes, stories, and instrumentals.

There's a clear hip hop influence running throughout his music, but electronic and experimental music guide a lot of the compositions on this new project as well. The title of this thing: Traumnovelle. It's available now via Already Dead Tapes, and you can purchase this album via cassette here.

Isaiah Rashad - Cilvia Demo

While Tennessee rapper Isaiah Rashad proves himself as a capable spitter and lyricist on this project, it's the storytelling, instrumentals, and choruses that are occasionally lackluster.

Lil Ugly Mane - Three Sided Tape Volume One

Underground hip hop mysterio Lil Ugly Mane drops roughly an hour of new material on what's been dubbed the Three Sided Tape Volume One. You can stream the three sides via the widget above, and the tracks have essentially been bunched into the "three sides" of this tape, which is cool. Lil Ugly Mane isn't exactly for the impatient, and maybe these uncut segments will allow his music to flow together into the druggy, chopped & screwed nightmare that it is. Give a listen, enjoy, and grab this project for whatever price you want on Bandcamp.

Mirroring- "Fell Sound"

Mirroring is a new collaborative project featuring two well-respected female musicians, Grouper and Tiny Vipers. For years, these two have been releasing music that encompasses the worlds of ambient music, folk, and psychedelia. It'll be nice to hear how they impact one another on this forthcoming record.

The album on the way is titled Foreign Body, and it'll be out on Kranky in March. Take a listen to the first track to drop fro the album, "Fell Sound," above.

Andrew Huang- Ghost

Ghost is easily one of the coolest online music projects I've come across in a while. So cool, it's difficult for me to categorize. Is it a song? Is it a music video? Is it something else?

Spearheaded by Andrew Huang, this project basically functions via a series of self-shot videos featuring musicians performing various instruments. All the performances remain in the same key, but it seems they have free reign to explore whatever ideas they'd like to outside of that single constraint.

All of these videos get featured on the project's website, which you can visit here, and visitors are free to play any combination of the videos they'd like. Want drums? No problem? Need that guitar part turned down? Easy! Don't want flute on the track? That's cool, too.

The results, no matter how you roll the dice, is pretty ambient and formless, but always shares a surprising element of unplanned beauty. Check out the project here and see what's up.