King Krule- A Lizard State: A fast paced, spoken word track from his 6 feet below the moon album, also features an intro from a Hitchcock Hour episode. A walking bass line and horns throughout, there’s a strong jazzy blues feel to this track, which could be found appealing to Jack White or The Black Keys fans.

FKA twigs- Two Weeks: Two Weeks is a much layered track not exactly for the musically declined from her LP1 album. FKA twigs brings a high, eerie voice to a masterful combination of a slow thumping bass creating exciting anticipation, trip step, and some art pop, and a lot more. She has the power to create a passionate mellowness within her music, and with each listen there’s an opportunity to hear a new sound magically rise from deep within the track.

Mick Jenkins –Martyrs: From The Water[s] mixtape by Chicago based rapper Mick Jenkins who manages to turn our necessity of water into a very lively, but thought provoking mixtape. This specific track is pumped full of thumping bass and a ticking beat with an underlying piano melody. He starts the song with some nice witty lines, until he realizes the audience really isn’t “listening” and leads into a fluid flow of how things aren’t the way we see them, the outro brings along a chanting of things that bring the common person to their downfall. Even if you truly don’t find this track enjoyable it’ll probably be worthwhile to keep up with the artist.

Cloud Nothings-Psychic Trauma: A punk-rock band, oh what a rarity these days. Cloud Nothings has a large amount of punk influence in their music and they use it superbly. Originally coming onto the scene two years ago with their track Stay Useless, the band kind of faded away, but to my surprise, their “Here and Nowhere Else” Album that came out this year made it to “Spin magazines top albums of the year so-far” list. Psychic Trauma is a strong standout track to me. The song is mainly psychedelic surf-rock with fuzz driven guitars, some nice drum fills, and the vocals have this grungy, slightly British tone. I would although like to see more complexity in their playing, I understand chord progressions are a significant part of punk, but if they’re to bring back this dying genre some more skilled and layered playing will be needed.

Flying Lotus-Can’t catch me ft. Kendrick Lamar: From the upcoming October 6/7th album “You’re Dead”, Can’t Catch Me is a slow roasted mixture of jazz and trap, which gradually begins to boil over as the song grows to an end. A spring feeling piano starts the track along with some shakers, followed by a quick jazz drum beat and this alien like bass line, all the while Kendrick manages to stay on top of this other worldly beat with some great lines, which only get better when the FlyLo brings in a clapping beat allowing Kendrick to become more ferocious with his lines. The outro is ended masterfully with more of an electro melody replacing the piano and bass beats replacing the jazz drums.