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So Dusty: ‘Expected Value’ by Devilsbelt

So Dusty: ‘Expected Value’ by Devilsbelt

Going through submissions is an act of crate-digging by itself. All the irrelevant “up-and-coming trap artists” and electropop aside (Music PR rule #4080: promo people are lazy), there’s always great music waiting to be discovered.

That’s how I found out about Expected Value by Connecticut-based beatmaker Devilsbelt. An independently released album featuring Chuck Strangers, Vic Spencer, Nocturnal, and others. 

“A lot of crate digging went into this project,” he said in a followup email. But that’s no surprise seeing track titles such as “Der Mingus Stu” and “So Dusty.” Expected Value exudes a love for old jazz records, skilfully turned into a hip-hop hybrid: partly beat tape, partly with emcees coming into the equation.

Listen to the sample-heavy album by Devilsbelt in full below, or pick a streaming platform of choice here.

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Just an ordinary guy always on the hunt for extraordinary music. Not just as the founder of The Find Magazine & Rucksack Records, but also as a freelance music journalist (bylines at Tracklib, Bandcamp, Wax Poetics, DIG Mag, among others) and—above all—out of love for all kinds of good music.