The Outsider

Down and out

“As a DJ Shadow fan I was literally salivating over the prospect of another release from the Californian mixmeister. When approaching the release of The Outsider I was already so desperate that I'd downloaded a pre-release leak of the album and almost instantly regretted it. I thought that, as some form of musical protection, the leak was filled with dummy tracks that resembled nothing of what was to come with the official release. I deleted the leaked version and waited until a few days after The Outsider had hit the shelves before I went back to the internet to claim yet another free copy.

Imagine my horror when the tracks were the same as the leak. I even tried a few more sources to quadruple check that I really was listening to a DJ Shadow record - a fear that was finally conf” read more