Herring, who uses highlight 'Ghost in a Kiss' to channel both his inner Leonard Cohen and Nick Cave. There's also worthy musical terrain for pop singers like Future Islands' Samuel T. producer the Bug, but these dark constructions offer artists like Lil B and A$AP Rocky the required grooves on which to rhyme. Now his official full-length debut album triple underlines this importance as it grinds and echoes in the style of U.K. The proof was always in the pudding as his woozy work for Lil B and A$AP Rocky helped break those artists, while remixes for Lana Del Rey and Big K.R.I.T. In the way that dubstep artist Burial dominated the left-leaning bit of his genre, the equally mysterious Mike Volpe, aka Clams Casino, slinked through the experimental side of hardcore rap and became a renowned figure with only a few interviews, some scattered releases, and a very humble attitude.
