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Album Review: King Woman – Celestial Blues

John Amen·July 30, 2021

Every mystic, no matter how immersed in textual and institutional prescriptions, is seeking a direct relationship with the...

Kyle Kohner·July 26, 2021

In the Psalms, the mighty King David was in constant emotional tumult as he wavered between reverence toward...

Rob Hakimian·July 23, 2021

When Darkside emerged a decade ago, Nicolas Jaar and Dave Harrington were both relative unknowns; the Chilean producer...

Chase McMullen·July 13, 2021

Every now and again – however rarely – an artist makes a leap, an evolution, so fully realized...

Vince Staples has always seen fit to do the most with the least. Even given that his relative...

Andy Johnston·June 18, 2021

On “Redemption”, the closing song from Backxwash’s Polaris Prize-winning previous album, God Has Nothing To Do With This...

Jasper WIllems·June 10, 2021

Few music terms are as archaic, constrained and decisively stupid as ‘IDM’ (‘Intelligent Dance Music’), and using it...

Rob Hakimian·June 9, 2021

Greentea Peng is here to be heard, but she’s not making noise just for the sake of it....

Pan Daijing is not here to be your friend. Your put-upon, beleaguered guide? Perhaps, but at a price....

Tim Sentz·May 28, 2021

Nobody is doing what black midi are doing. This freaky band of misfits have spawned an entire legion...