Lav's Music Corner

This week featured some familiar faces that have popped up on the best new tracks segment all year, see if they made it again. <3 5.  Ruby Rosery  - A$AP Rocky (feat. J. Cole) So we're officially back in an era where Rocky is releasing music regularly and it's brought us to the reserved, J. Cole-featuring Ruby Rosery . Like Cole's appearance on Metro Boomin & Future's album earlier this year it's a more reserved moment than anticipated and yet his intimacy works well in this format. Both Rocky and Cole are casual but confident and as slick as ever on this memorable crossover.  Listen 4.  I Walk  - Mount Eerie It's been a noticeable few years off for Mount Eerie since Phil Elverum returned to The Microphones with a unique and conceptual project in 2020 that sought to tell the story of how the project evolved with one single album-length track. Now he's back as Mount Eerie with a sonic palette that still exists within the intimate folds his music always...

Oh another week. This time around there were two big headliners in terms of new singles but that didn't stop quite a few of the other new releases from standing out. Enjoy <3 5.  D.M.B  - A$AP Rocky For a while now A$AP Rocky and Rihanna have been a celebrity couple purely in the paparazzi sense. From compelling photographs of two of the most gorgeous people on earth together to a hilarious stream of memes resulting from the great fake cheating scandal, that kind of couple. But now they officially graduate into a bonafide celeb couple through the guise of their work, or Rocky's work at least. With this new single and accompanying video their prescence is cemented, and the song itself isn't half bad either.  Listen 4.  Degree  - Cola From the ashes of Ought, one of the best indie bands of the 2010's, came Cola. While the band hasn't quite blow me completely away yet I have been enjoying what they do more and more as the weeks go by and this is no different. Th...

A$AP Ferg is a New York rapper and member of the A$AP Mob hip hop collective that rose to prominence in the early 2000's. Ferg separated himself from the rest of the non-Rocky members of the collective in 2013 with his debut studio album Trap Lord  and the breakout single Shabba . Since then Ferg has released a handful of projects that have failed to reach the same critical peak including a universally maligned second studio record Always Strive And Prosper before dropping nearly half of this EP as singles in the lead up to its release. Review By Lavender: My general distaste for A$AP Ferg's music has been known to get me into hot water. Whether it was calling Trap Lord  average or calling Always Strive And Prosper  one of the worst rap albums of the decade I have not been shy about my feelings towards Ferg, and his fans have not been shy back. So after I gave his last record yet another mediocre review I declared that it may be the final Ferg project I was willing...