After 11 albumless years, Busta Rhymes returns with Extinction Level Event 2: The Wrath of God: the follow up to his 1998 release E.L.E. (Extinction Level Event): The Final World Front.  While the release boasts a lengthy line-up of collaborators and impressive manipulation of numerous rap styles, the overall listening experience is somewhat hit and miss and at times, … [Read more...] about Busta Rhymes: Extinction Level Event 2: The Wrath of God – Review

Experimental electronic artist Kit Grill turns on the ambient sounds as he continues his journey through the world of new wave music on brand new record, Ride. The NTS Radio host has been extremely thorough and determined throughout the entire process of creating this record and work on the 12-track compilation of soothing tunes began right back at the beginning of 2020, … [Read more...] about Kit Grill: Ride – Album Review

Vipid creates a caressing, thematic sound that flows through the veins of new instrumental ambient album, Memories. Solo Electronic Artist/Producer Vipid really knows how to structure a theme to run through his music. With inspiration drawn from early points in his life, Jared Simmons has created a delightful ambiance that runs throughout Memories, allowing the listener to … [Read more...] about Vipid: Memories – Album Review

A blend of the sensual and the sensitive, Ariana Grande delivers the easy-listening album, Positions. Grande’s previous two records were written in the midst of serious pain. Sweetener was marked by grief, following the Manchester Arena bombing, and Thank U, Next followed the death of her ex-boyfriend Mac Miller. But with Positions, the singer is optimistically moving on to … [Read more...] about Ariana Grande: Positions – Album Review

The legendary cosmic explorers’ first outing in two decades is an intoxicating, vital and welcome addition to the canon of astral jazz; space still is the place. Ever since the demise of outsize Afro-futurist visionary and bandleader Herman ‘Sonny’ Blount’ aka Sun Ra in 1993, his sprawling Arkestra has continued to honour his legacy, even weathering the loss of integral … [Read more...] about Sun Ra Arkestra: Swirling – Review

Bring Me The Horizon are back with their apocalyptic EP, Post Human: Survival Horror. Written as a means of coping with the COVID-19 pandemic, the tracks on the latest Bring Me The Horizon EP comment on humanity’s precarious existence through a mix of hard rock, thrash metal, and electronica. As the title Survival Horror suggests, listeners are in for a sobering experience … [Read more...] about Bring Me The Horizon: Post Human: Survival Horror – Review