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Take - “Fall in Love Again”

Take, aka Thomas 2000, aka Thomas Wilson can be found on the lefty spectrum of hip-hop. If the likes of Kanye and Jay-Z can be considered the center (it is sad that those are the two names that came to mind), and the conservative right is anything from the bass-heavy southern rap to the Bay Area’s hyphy movement, Take dabbles with instrumental and experimental beats. On a related note: conservative rap is shaping out to be pretty shite!

While his usual stuff is akin to Flying Lotus, Daedelus, and Dabyre, this song — from his album The Dirty Decibels Of Thomas Two Thousand — is definitely leaner and toned down. It’s easy on the electro-synth and generous with traditional acoustics. The brevity of the song seems to underscore the talent - you will definitely be using the repeat function.

This guest post was written by Avi Jaisinghani. Thanks, Avi! If you want to submit your own guest post, head on over to our submission page and get writing!

Pale Young Gentlemen - Fraulein

I absolutely adore Pale Young Gentlemen. A fact backed up by iTunes’ claim that I’ve listened to their album over 60 times. But I’m going to let Dave Koen introduce this one. This is what he included as his sample post when he replied to our call for a new contributor. Unfortunately, we didn’t pick Dave, but we did love his post, so here it is.

What is the last thing you would expect to hear coming out of Madison, Wisconsin? How about the Pale Young Gentlemen? With a sound that harkens back to your Eastern European country of choice, they have managed to find quite the following here in the States. Since the self-release of their debut album they have garnered some rave reviews (Jared Hoke of 5 Acts proclaims them, “the best band you don’t know about”). With a sound that is hard to describe as anything but “parlor-room” they have managed to put together an album of catchy, pop songs that I find myself listening to again and again.

Thanks again, Dave!