Track Of The Day: Spill It – Jamal Bucanon

My dude Jamal Bucanon is back with a banger of an indie rock track that had me from the drop. It starts off with a guitar part under Jamal’s mix of rap and singing. Add to that the breakbeat and the passing through of filters and it just gets you bouncing. My favourite part of …

Fresh Faves: Batch 618

EDBL, ADY SULEIMAN & DAN WHITLAM – When You Were Mine edbl · When You Were Mine (feat. Dan Whitlam) EDBL is back in the building and suitably kicks things off with a track that’s nice and sparse – bass, guitars, vocals and drums. The bass has a dubby feel to it making it cross …

Album Review: “Here Because Of Hope” – Ezra Collective

Ezra Collective dropped a new album! Let’s go. This is how the album opens up, and it’s read beautifully by Letitcia Wright – yep. Black Panther herself.  She approaches the reading with gravity and reverence, and why not? Imagine someone like Sir Ian McKellen or Dame Judi Dench doing a reading? She’s giving it emotion …

Track Of The Day: Freedom From The City – The Living Room Collective

Are you listening to this track? It slaps. The groove is perfect R&B flavour with a touch of funk, a bit of Latin and hip hop. Ruinz Ason brings the spice on the rap.the live instrumentation gives me Earth Wind And Fire pre September vibes, it’s very slick in production, tight arrangements! I love the …

Track Of The Day – “Can We Make It Real?” – Manny Norte X Ayanna

This is a new one from Manny Norte and Ayanna, and it slaps. This is based around an afrobeat groove, and it’s smooth, you can tell they cooked it up for the summer because it gets you dancing immedately even if your’e not in the mood. What caught my attention was the Neo soul chord …

Single Review: “The Call” – CHIMA ANYA

Right we need to put some respect on this name. This is <strong>Chima Anya</strong> – hold on let me correct myself DOCTOR Chima Anya’s return to the fresh faves, and he’s done a LOT. I mean, he’s been on Britain’s Got Talent (Yes, yes I yelled at my tv). I’ve interviewed him in the past …

Track Of The Day: “Listen To The Crows” – Unity X DJ Jaffa

In doing my weekly crate digging for new releases I came across this gem of a track. It’s a hip hop head bopper from Wales’s Unity and she brings tongue twisting lyrical excellence to this track – and what a track – the beat plods along nicely, made up of kick, snare, hi hat, vocal …

Single Review: “Raised Around Queens” – Eva Lazarus

This track is pure poetry from top to bottom! The beat prowls, it starts off with a guitar playing a tasty little riff but it switches up around 0:11. Eva comes in good and strong, loud and proud about her family history, from Jamaican descent to Bristol and busking with her crew. She lets you …

Single Review: “Home Safe?” – Righteous Reck

’s funny when I went to tag Righteous Reck here, my first thought was that this would be up @ruinzason and his brother @jflamesondabeat ‘s street, turns out they’re connected on social media already. This track has layers, the pitched up vocals and piano give it that love song vibe, but it’s not strictly a love song, it could …

Blog interview: Eva Gadd

Congratulations on the release of “I Don’t Talk” how does it feel?  Thank you so much. It feels really great having a project out as it is, let alone one that’s a collaboration with such amazing talents Blue Lab Beats.  It’s a four track EP, what’s your favourite track?  When I listen to the project, …