Makaya McCraven - Deciphering The MessageAcross numerous albums and mixtapes, Makaya McCraven has proven his mastery of the loop akin to hip hops most celebrated beatmakers like J Dilla and Madlib. With his new remix album, Deciphering The Message, the Chicago based drummer and producer digs through the Blue Note Records vaults to put a modern bounce on classics by Art Blakey, Horace Silver, Hank Mobley, Dexter Gordon, Kenny Burrell, and Eddie Gale, among others. While Deciphering The

The only tracks from these sessions to make the album were 41⁄2 Inch (allegedly edited out of samples of a rehearsal recording)

by the rapid-fire sequence

wringing out the imminent meaning in each word

Zev Feldman

"Just Like Christmas"

While their debut

that one can find a way to laugh and cry in the same breath - and be stronger for it

each riff shades the stories he sets up in his lyrics

Light in the Attic is honoured to be working with Nancy Sinatra for a long-overdue re-appreciation of one of America’s greatest recording artists

Teenage Fanclub have announced details of the vinyl reissues of two more of their classic albums – Man Made and Shadows

Rhythm Of Cruelty

dubby electro-soul of “Song” closes out the first half of the album with barely contained dread as it creeps towards the lush