The Lees of Memory have been putting out short run, non-LP tracks via Velocity Of Sound Records for the past year. You can now hear those tracks compiled digitally for the first time. Be sure not to miss “All-Powerful You” backed by “ouY lufrewoP-llA” – the reverse track.

In what may be the wordiest album title since Fiona Apple made her mark in 1999, Jota Ese returns with an album of laid back, tripped out hip-hop. 

I am firm believer that album art is a legitimate tool for enticing new listeners into your music. It certainly sets the stage for the music within and, if compelling enough, can garner completely virgin interest. These are obvious statements.

Such is the case with Elite Geographic’s vaporwave EP, Computer Creative. I knew immediately what to expect and it delivers. It’s a drugged out, ambient soundscape that pulls heavily from the genre’s primary structures.

On the surface, there’s absolutely no reason that I should enjoy the spoken word ramblings of Ansonandtherest. The album contains no singing, it’s just musical meanderings layered under the storytelling poetry of Anson Hohne. If you described this to me, I would tell you, conceptually, it sounds abysmal. 

But it’s not. Maybe I’m just getting old and I’m open to weirder things but it’s actually soothing. The calm vocal speaking paints a tiny picture of familiar things – dealing with the rain, traveling for a lost love and lots of coffee.

If you find this pretentious and self-indulgent, I wouldn’t fault you, but I think if you listen to it meditatively, you will enjoy some part of it.