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Missed Listens

Darren Hemmings

Missed Listens celebrates albums we consider to be slept-on classics. Our contributors include people from all over the music industry, stepping up to explain why the album of their choosing is worth your time.

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Tyondai Braxton - Central Market

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Orchestral music - I won’t use the term ‘classical’ here as I tend to see that more as a genre - isn’t something I tend to gravitate to. It’s not that I don’t like it - certain pieces are capable of moving me al...

a year ago
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Ray LaMontagne And The Pariah Dogs - God Willin' & The Creek Don't Rise

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Confession: when I first heard Ray LaMontagne, I really didn’t like what I heard. The voice most definitely had something going on, but the song I first heard - Trouble, from his 2004 debut album of the same nam...

a year ago
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New Kingdom - Heavy Load

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Here’s a confession: in hip hop, I love great MCs, but I love heavy, HEAVY production too. It’s why I was drawn to groups like Public Enemy or Cypress Hill; the sheer power of the Bomb Squad or DJ Muggs’ pr...

2 years ago
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Earth - Hex: Or Printing in the Infernal Method

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Earth are probably better known to most as the godfathers of a form that executed the complete devolution of music into only a little more than pure distortion and phase; a consequence of downtuning the gui...

2 years ago
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David Crosby - If Only I Could Remember My Name

Click here to listen as you read (though please note, thanks to Neil Young pulling any music he wrote or performed from streaming services, only select songs are available, but the full album is still up on YouTube.)

David Crosby should be...

2 years ago
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  • Darren Hemmings

    I am the founder and MD of Motive Unknown, a strategic marketing agency based in the UK. We operate primarily in the music business, though we also work with music-related brands too.

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