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Cub-J & Rub n’ Alc – Lil Pieces
The first we heard from Cub-J was his heart-based project Love Abuse. I still encourage everyone to take a moment to ingest his catalogue early. Love Abuse is truly well done and a surprise gem of last year’s bunch of musical treasures which came my way. In the same realm as that project, Cub-J latest’s single Lil Pieces is a personal chronicle of heart-break. He mellowly spits an honest (and somewhat eerie) flow over another beat by his constant collaborator, Rub n’ Alc. While the beat alone is soothing and easy to vibe to, the more you listen, it is a very vivid and dark love story. You can imagine…
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Oska Faro – OSKA FARO
Oska Faro is another dope prducer/lyricist combination, Soft Glas and Rufat. Many of the current artists I continue to feel inspired to feature intrigue me in very unique ways through their sound and overall personality, as well as style felt through the art. And well, I haven’t heard a voice like Rufat of Oska Faro. More than the inflection of his voice, there is a pure originality about this album that makes me happy. These two together perfectly exemplify my idea of this new wave of true individuals who have strong and positive messages to share with everyone. It also happens to, whether intentional or not, embody this generation in…
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Fast Life Society – From Time
Fast Life Society is a producer/lyricist combo that is Ed Weathers (Atlanta) and Aaron Watkins (Toronto), known as Villabeatz. I first came into the sounds of the Fast Life Society guys in person, almost a year ago, in some sweet twist of musical fate in Hollywood. Since then, I have been patiently waited for their project to be unleashed for everyone to discover and relate to. They recently made From Time available in collaboration with 808 mafia, and it might be the release that puts these guys on everyone’s radar! From This is packed with with a wide range of energy. Regardless of tempo, Ed Weathers tells his interesting stories…
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FemaLe IntuiTion is sO NeXt LeveL MIX
I wouldn’t be at ease without closing up a wonderful first year of posting on The Frolic with some words about my unique year of growth, and some music! This ending quarter of the holiday season swallowed me up, for a bit. I have a new playlist to hold us over until I get around to updating, after the new year. I have some big ideas to manifest! Distinctive growth occurred within me this year. I feel like I am constantly discovering myself while collecting and creating myself at the same time. So many magical moments strengthened my perception of life and calmed the uncertainty I felt throughout much of…
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Dumplings én China – Wishbone Visual
Dumplings En China is one of my favorite new and true artists to have come into in 2014. Throughout the year, he has made two outstanding EPs available, along with some uplifting jams which I continue to play to brighten my days. When you listen to them all back to back, it is not difficult to imagine why he has already been courted by Indie record labels both inside and outside of the U.S. His rare and bold approach to each of his songs is what gets me stirring whenever I find myself pressing play on something new from him. I don’t quite know what to expect each time, and…
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Teedra Moses – California Vibes EP
The Young Lioness is back with a surprise EP for her fans! Teedra Moses gave us one of my favorite albums to this day, back when I was a young girl in high school who didn’t see herself as knowing much about love or life and its losses. And even then, I was in love with every track and knew that her debut, Complex Simplicity is something that should be felt by everyone. Keeping in similar tones with her latest self-released project, California Vibes, The New Orleans native has created another masterpiece that curls around my soul ever so snuggly. Every word expressed rings at elements of my own life,…
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Lion Babe – Jungle Lady Visual
After two teasing years, the first official Lion Babe EP has arrived, and it delivers a refreshing helping of new school funk music. The only disappointing thing about this project is that it leaves you wanting more. I think this very special duo picked a fitting time of the year to officially introduce themselves to the world, with all of the other amazing music that is being released lately, from D’Angelo’s Black Messiah to J.Cole’s recent release. The self-titled project includes the future classic (I feel), Treat Me Like Fire, as well as other favorites I have featured previously, Jump Hi featuring Childish Gambino and Intro. With the five track…
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Majay – ROOM 202
I don’t remember how I came across this cool website, but it relates to this post and I’ve had the link to it up for weeks. I’ve been going to rainymood.com for some years now because the sound of rain coating anything is soothing to me. I highly recommend it, especially to play with the wonderful instrumentals on this project. Try it and thank me later. ; ) So, it has been raining in Los Angeles for the past couple of days. While I’ve been playing this new Majay project a lot, I like it even more with this weather. I ran into a few of these guys at a…
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P.R – The Instrumentals
I am a fan of instrumentals. Even before my recent experimentation with meshing my rhymes over them, I have found that a great instrumental can be just as rejuvenating and relatable as a song which I connect to lyrically. I remember listening to beats by producers like Nujabes and J Dilla in high school and discovering then that instrumentals really helped me focus whenever I’d write my own short stories in my spare time, as well as the dreaded essays assigned. I developed an appreciation for instrumentals alone. They mask the ever-going clutter in my mind while the unique instruments lead to all sorts of sounds and scenarios associated when…
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Sonnymoon – The Fear
Anna Wise has one of the most enchanting voices I have ever heard. The quality about Sonnymoon, previously mentioned here, that draws my attention to them again and again is their ultra eerie & indefinable sound. They are masters at channeling several styles at once to create their own individual sound. I discovered the super duo through their Golden Age project, which I fell in love with along with their self-titled LP Sonnymoon. They get me through long hours of transit, and sound especially magical while up in the clouds during a flight, or on a train. I highly recommend both of their projects. True experimentalists, I honestly believe that…
