Meercaz - Queen Mary Mill - New LP

  Muzz Delgado (aka Meercaz) is back with a new record, dropping like a zipper on your jumpsuit, side one and side two pieces in the outfit, two very different sides but fitting together just fine on the one album, dropping like a pair of homesewn undies to your handcrafted ankle bracelet, coming from different times and places, and styles, Side Two featuring Muslim (aka Meercaz Worldwide) alone in Oakland with his bedroom hip-hop, licks and sounds and samples and beats, my "bedroom" tag referring both to the sexy content and the DIY aesthetic.  Meanwhile, Side One from L.A. with Samantha Mancino on drums, duo rock n roll that avoids fitting neatly into a section at the Record Land at the indoor shopping mall, sort of recalling the 1970s rock n' roll outfits that blurred genres and stupid sub-genres while having a toe or two in all of them--glam, garage, power pop, punk, R&B, hard rock...opening with the wonderful "Robot Love" and concluding the side with a great cover of Gorilla'