NYC
Track: Wet Leather – Secret Preference
If anxiety pop is a real thing, as NYC’s Wet Leather describe their music as, then we here at Backseat Mafia are immediate converts. Secret Preference is their new single, and it’s as if Girls Just Wanna Have Fun has been dragged to a party, got horribly drunk, and been laid out on a car …
Video: Ratking featuring King Krule – So Sick Stories
A slower slice of troubling hip-hop, following the paranoid claustrophobia of “100”. NYC’s new rap heroes mix it up with London’s King Krule. The video for “So Sick Stories” puts Ratking and their British guest in a set of nondescript, alienating, brutalistic urban locales. Their cross to bear is one of sadness, anger, listlessness, lived …
New Video: Ratking – 100
Tense, impressive NYC hiphop. Unsettled by the playground-taunting delivery of Wiki; troubled by the too-calm detachment of Hak; confused by the overlaid images and flitting shapes of the video; marvelling at that most-ear-catching hiphop skill of internal rhymes that seem to be falling over each other to interact; unable to relax into the music because …