Now, this review can't be too intensely well-informed, just because…I, uh, don't have all of his stuff. I'm not entirely sure how to get ahold of it. But I'll go from what I've heard, and by gum, I'll try and make it valid and interesting for you.

Now. It pains me to say this. But at first - I didn't really dig Nozebleed.

I have to stop here and say that I've grown to enjoy it. It's still not my ab-so-lute favorite, but I do like it. I believe that most of my problem was that I didn't expect…

3WAY BATTLE ROYALE REQUIEM:
STRATA VS. THE LIMOUSINES VS. NOZEBLEED
IN!THAT!ORDER!
MOVEMENT ONE: STRATA-ZPHERE

Okay, kids. Buckle up.

Now, some of the names up yonder have been around for a decent while. But this blog hasn't. And it just isn't fair to the blog itself to deprive it of gushing over the music inherently a part of the Army of Funk. So you're gonna see some pretty established people popping up in reviews. Maybe you just need to sit back and give such folks another listen, eh? Eh.

Onward.

The first album I actually listened to by Strata wasn't their…

I've decided to start writing about the music I've been getting into recently, especially this artist, because the second I read an article about her (serendipitously, in a year-old issue of Fader magazine, which I'd never heard of before) I knew that I had to get my hands on her music and check it out.

And just as surely as I knew this upon reading about her, I loved her music upon the first listening.

Janelle Monáe.

Where. Do I. Begin.

First off, let's examine why I, specifically, love this lady.

My favorite things, musically, are a rocking melody, good…