A Reader staffer shares three musical obsessions, then asks someone (who asks someone else) to take a turn.
The prolificacy of Future Drug-addled emotional Auto-Tune addict Future might be the hottest, trippiest rapper out there right now. His Free Bricks collaboration with Gucci Mane was the perfect way to close out 2016, and the two full-length records he released in the span of seven days last month were a really monumental way to kick off this year. Rumor has it that a third full-length is about to drop, and it’ll surely be great too. Keep ’em coming.
Nico Niquo, Epitaph Last year I decided to get to know the Orange Milk Records catalog. It’s more than 100 releases deep, and this 2015 album sticks out like a golden sparkling thumb. Epitaph constantly teases the listener with tiny fragments of techno and trap among its perfectly arranged emulations of early new age and digital music. (By the way, Orange Milk just released a Nico Niquo album called In a Silent Way.)
