Every week, you can download guilt-free MP3s from Rhapsody recommended artists from our vast abyss of a catalog. For this installment, we're firing off tracks from Brooklyn hip-hop innovators Anti Pop Consortium, Americana troubadour Langhorne Slim and more. Get them while they're hot -- or at least still warm enough to melt butter.
After a six-year hiatus Anti Pop Consortium are back en forme with Fluorescent Black, one of the most inventive hip-hop albums in recent years. It may lack the immediate accessibility of the Blueprint 3, but it's equal in lyrical flow and trumps most in experimentation. [To download, click the button below. When page loads, click "save as."]
Langhorne Slim sheds his reputation for minimalism on his third album, Be Set Free, with a little help from Chris Funk (the Decemberists) and a small tabernacle of horns, strings, guitars and backing vocalists -- yet Slim's new look never seems overdone even with all the added arrangements.
Aussie trio the Grates aren't as ... um ... grating on their sophomore album, Teeth Lost, Hearts Won; the noise-rockers seem to have grown up and polished their act a bit.
The Twilight Sad have blaring, fuzzed-out guitars in common with fellow Glaswegians Mogwai, but they blend it together with bittersweet pop -- as heard on their recent album Forget the Night Ahead.
And finally, since the early '60s Preservation Hall Jazz Band have been keeping up the tradition of New Orleans jazz. This recent incarnation of the band as Hot Four updates the time-honored sound with a remix from Philly soul-house maestro King Britt.
After a six-year hiatus Anti Pop Consortium are back en forme with Fluorescent Black, one of the most inventive hip-hop albums in recent years. It may lack the immediate accessibility of the Blueprint 3, but it's equal in lyrical flow and trumps most in experimentation. [To download, click the button below. When page loads, click "save as."]
Langhorne Slim sheds his reputation for minimalism on his third album, Be Set Free, with a little help from Chris Funk (the Decemberists) and a small tabernacle of horns, strings, guitars and backing vocalists -- yet Slim's new look never seems overdone even with all the added arrangements.
Aussie trio the Grates aren't as ... um ... grating on their sophomore album, Teeth Lost, Hearts Won; the noise-rockers seem to have grown up and polished their act a bit.
The Twilight Sad have blaring, fuzzed-out guitars in common with fellow Glaswegians Mogwai, but they blend it together with bittersweet pop -- as heard on their recent album Forget the Night Ahead.
And finally, since the early '60s Preservation Hall Jazz Band have been keeping up the tradition of New Orleans jazz. This recent incarnation of the band as Hot Four updates the time-honored sound with a remix from Philly soul-house maestro King Britt.
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