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Mr. Lif + Brass Menazeri • Resilient
• released 2017-11-03
Cross-cultural collaboration mixes up a Balkan frenzy with dope beats and MC’ing

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Cross-cultural collaboration mixes up a Balkan frenzy with dope beats and MC’ing
They couldn’t figure out why they kept returning. At first, the hookah lounge was a noxious hangout, bearable only for the crushed-on bartender. Then, suspicion of nicotine addiction. Finally, the realization that it was the music on the jukebox.
Caravan Palace uses old-fashioned swing music for its digital building blocks and emerges with something like audio caffeine
Twenty years later, Dr. Octagon still sounds like the future of intelligent-slash-weird hip-hop
No denying this band exists in a dual space of Gen X ridicule and genuine nostalgia. The new album is filled with the same sunny indie-rock wink-and-grin disposition that rightfully earned them the title, broadcasting into/from the airwaves of 1994.