Singleversity #8

Audiversity’s weekly column on random music in a predetermined number of words between 1 & 150. This week's randomly generated number: 104.

(Ed. - Originally this was called Threeversity, but in the spirit of simplicity we've decided to retroactively relabel all of these posts. The content remains unchanged.)

MA:
(#104 of a random playlist generated from my ever-changing database of 12,500+ songs)



Last summer, nearing the final moments of July, I think the unbearable heat melted my usual down-to-earth demeanor into a pool of sappy emotions and sun-baked sighs. For one reason or another, Milosh was my music of choice. His sweaty IDM beats and sexy coos seemed to manifest my undirected longing into blippy waves of late-night grooves. Because a track like "Time Steals the Day" is so genuinely primed for sensuous sessions of making-out and bodily explorations, it doubled as a soundtrack to my nightly woe-is-me window gazing. Yes, cheese. Sappy, mushy cheese. But we all succumb to such nonsense time and again.

JR:



It's spring in South Carolina and every possible moment is spent living the porch life. Nights out there are vibrant times, so refreshing being able to sit and sip on your beverage of choice, whether that be sweet tea or spirits, only going to fuel lively night-long conversations. So, of course, the whole rustic log cabin thing sounds good these days. Thanks to the advice of MV & EE I may just have to strike out into the wooded mountain sides of Virgina. "Cold Rain" is plucked from 2006's Mother Of Thousands, a real pastoral epic and my favorite MV & EE release.

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While Cadence Weapon has dominated headlines in the past year following Breaking Kayfabe, Canadian hip-hop isn't merely confined to one critics' darling: Sixtoo has been representing both Halifax, Nova Scotia and Montreal since his cassette debut in 1994. A man of constant reinvention and a thick discography, Sixtoo hangs out on London-based Ninja Tune these days. Though 1998's The Psyche Intangible is regarded as a terse version of the man who would eventually pen 2000's Anticon. classic Songs I Hate (and Other People's Moments), "Shooting Angels" is notable not just for its brevity but also for its production and theoretical lyrics worth a read.