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Album Review: Sons of Kemet – Black To The Future

Jasper WIllemsMay 17, 2021

While the cultural discourse remains ever too preoccupied trying to crystallize the moment, the tireless Shabaka Hutchings stresses constant movement. Such is ...

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Album Review: McKinley Dixon – For My Mama and Anyone Who Look Like Her

Conor LochrieMay 17, 2021

In an excellent Guardian essay, released only last month, Jason Okundaye discussed the rise of ‘black trauma porn’. He cited an Art in America essay by the aca...

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Album Review: St. Vincent – Daddy’s Home

Tim SentzMay 14, 2021

Annie Clark has been killing it for over a decade now – not just interviews – she’s delivered consistent Bowie-esque transformations across numerous LPs since ...

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Album Review: Lionel Boy – Lionel Boy

Chase McMullenMay 14, 2021

Lionel Boy makes tunes for a summer that, for many of us, feels like it will never come. Sure, depending on where you live, the vaccine is becoming more and mo...

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Album Review: Paris Texas – BOY ANONYMOUS

John AmenMay 13, 2021

With their eight-track debut, Boy Anonymous, Louie Pastel and Felix, aka Paris Texas, seamlessly interweave the perennial machismo of rap, the quirky charisma...

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Album Review: Wy – Marriage

Ray FinlaysonMay 13, 2021

Over a contrasting chirpy, backtracked loop and a bleary-eyed guitar riff, Ebba Gustafsson Ågren sings the first words of Wy's third album, Marriage. "I'm scar...

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Album Review: India Jordan – Watch Out! EP

Rob HakimianMay 12, 2021

India Jordan makes music for a non-stop world. Their breakthrough EP, last year’s For You, was perfect for a busy dancefloor, but tonally and emotionally felt ...

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Album Review: Dorothea Paas – Anything Can’t Happen

Caillou PettisMay 12, 2021

Dorothea Paas’s Anything Can’t Happen opens up with a soothing guitar and a melodic vocal backing from the songwriter, singing “I’m not lonely now / Doing all ...

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Album Review: Sophia Kennedy – Monsters

Grady PennaMay 11, 2021

Sophia Kennedy’s self-titled debut album arrived like a bolt of lightning in 2017 – a cutting flash of musical curiosity that seemed to explode out of nowhere....

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Album Review: Glüme – The Internet

Chase McMullenMay 11, 2021

Glüme makes music for somewhere we’ve yet to be, perhaps somewhere we’re simply unable to go. To say the least, she boasts an arresting gaze: there’s surely no...

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