J Dilla - Donuts (Black Vinyl)

J Dilla - Donuts (Black Vinyl)Donuts is accessible without being typical or easily defined: it's hip hop without MCs; electronic music that at times sounds like a 70s soul mixtape; J Dilla doing what he does best crafting hip hop, soul and electronic music into his own sound. You might not have heard of J Dilla, but you know his sound. He produced classics for A Tribe Called Quest, Pharcyde, Janet Jackson, Busta Rhymes, Q Tip, Common (including two tracks on Be, and the whole

and full of piercing emotional depth

there was an inescapable disco pulse

domo genesis

this Austin

but the trio still possess a very obvious anchor in the form of their hometown

including work with John Mayer

one not to be missed

The songs range from ambient instrumentals to slacker rock to bright twang

Levine encountered the blue heron first while writing the project

whose soft-spoken songs deliver a series of intimate world building moments capable of shattering a listener's temporal and emotional boundaries

yelling it—in the service of human connection

This outpouring of evocative emotion makes the band’s more traditional song structures read like a new breed of pop music in its purest form