To most young people, the idea of inviting both their favorite D.J.'s and government ministers to the same party would sound distinctly uncool.
You have to painstakingly explain that you are really down, yo, and have been from Day One (well, OK, since 2006) with D.I.T.C., Mobb Depp, Gang Starr, Beatnuts, Group Home, Tribe etc. (but only ever their first two albums at most, make sure you say that or you could sound totally uncool).
You have to painstakingly explain that you are really down, and have been from day (well, since 2006), with D.I.T.C., Mobb Depp, Gang Starr, Beatnuts, Group Home, Tribe etc (but only ever their first two albums at most, make sure you say that or you could sound totally uncool).
There's nothing worse than thinking you hung up and then regaling your buddies with the message you just left, burping, yelling at your brother, or some other dumb thing to make you sound totally uncool.
Then again, maybe it's not a problem that so much pop-music scholarship sounds conspicuously uncool.
They sound both ridiculously uncool and ridiculously talented, playing the sort of thing that people will cling to and hail as "proper" music.
Now drawing on the history of relaxing dance music, some of the most interesting producers of 2016 are retooling and slowing down what once was a drastically uncool sound.
I know that might sound, like, totes uncool, but there are a whole lot of things that babies do that you just can't get away with as an adult.
Their debut album is likely to be one of the few this year that features the deeply uncool sound of a recorder solo, and definitely the only one that manages to evoke the Cocteau Twins, Fiona Apple and Alisha's Attic in one song – the bewildering Eat Shiitake Mushrooms.
