The producer Kareem Ali displayed his mastery of serene propulsion last year on tracks like “The Great Beyond,” “Changed My Life,” and “In My Spaceship,” where waves of placid electronics wash over brittle programmed drums. His new single, “Como Me Siento Por Ti (Instrumental Version),” builds on this foundation, with synthesizer arpeggios buttressed by sturdy piano chords, both working together to swaddle and soothe a massive, agitated kick drum.
Ali’s pacing is measured and immaculate: The piano enters the track after the synthesizer cycles through a motif four times...
Ali’s pacing is measured and immaculate: The piano enters the track after the synthesizer cycles through a motif four times...
- 4/6/2021
- by Elias Leight
- Rollingstone.com
Listening to new music is part of everyone’s daily life at Rolling Stone, from the writers and editors in the music department to photographers, designers, researchers, copy editors, and more. That might have been truer than ever in 2020, a year when music became an essential source of comfort and distraction when we needed it most. The choices on these personal Top 10s range from the biggest albums of the year — Taylor Swift’s Folklore was playing in many a living room, as were Jessie Ware’s What’s Your Pleasure?...
- 12/21/2020
- by Jonathan Bernstein, Emily Blake, Jon Blistein, David Browne, Rick Carp , Tim Chan, Jon Dolan, Patrick Doyle, Brenna Ehrlich, Andrew Firriolo, Jon Freeman, Dewayne Gage, Kory Grow, Christian Hoard, Joseph Hudak, Jeff Ihaza, Daniel Kreps, Sacha Lecca, Angie Martoccio, Ethan Millman, Steven Pearl, Jerry Portwood, Kyle Rice, Claire Shaffer, Rob Sheffield, Hank Shteamer, Brittany Spanos, Simon Vozick-Levinson and Amy X. Wang
- Rollingstone.com
Kareem Ali doles out music at a torrid pace: He has released seven albums in the last 18 months, a mix of reverent deep house tracks and more potent, pointed grooves, questing science fiction and pressing political commentary. While it’s more common than ever for artists to jettison songs like old sheets during spring cleaning, Ali’s data-dump feels considered and locked in; listening to his albums back to back to back is at once soothing and captivating.
“The producer Knxwledge did an interview one time, and he was saying...
“The producer Knxwledge did an interview one time, and he was saying...
- 8/25/2020
- by Elias Leight
- Rollingstone.com
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