Boundary-pushing hip hop duo’s highly anticipated debut album cements them at the forefront of the experimental rap movement + new records from Blur, Cut Worms, DJ Mark and more.
After a brief hiatus and reemerging on the scene in 2021, the Californian experimental hip hop duo of Louie Pastel and Felix AKA Paris Texas have gone from strength to strength, turning heads with their intense and energetic fusion of post-punk and alt-rock inflected hip hop, where distorted guitars and tight rhythm sections are as common as booming 808s and trap beats.
Building on what we heard with their 2021 eight song collection Boy Anonymous, MID AIR is an epic record in every sense of the word, packing 16 cuts of wild, off the wall hip hop flavours, with plenty of humour injected in the often bizarre and metaphorical bars. Forgoing the hip hop trope of stacking the record with features, MID AIR does feature two collabs, with Kenny Mason jumping on DnD, and Teezeo Touchdown on the appropriately titled Full English.
Felix has been quoted as saying “You never want to waste someone’s time”, with the record written under the seemingly obvious yet often overlooked ideology of “Is it worth listening to?”... Yes, MID AIR is worth listening to. And again. And again….
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Among our other picks of the week - Britpop legends Blur release their ninth studio album, Brazillian drum & bass icon DJ Marky drops first album in 8 years on influential Shogun Audio label, the Barbie movie soundtrack releases and more!
Allegra Krieger - I Keep My Feet on the Fragile Plane [Double Double Whammy] USA
Andrew Bird - Outside Problems [Loma Vista Recordings] USA
Blur - The Ballad Of Darren [Warner] ENG
Bruno Major - Columbo [AWAL] ENG
Cut Worms - Cut Worms [Jagjaguwar] USA
DJ Marky - The Time Is Right [Shogun Audio] BRA
Mittere - Boy [Mittere] AUS
Mizmor - Prosaic [Profound Lore] USA
Various Artists - Barbie: The Album [Atlantic / Warner]