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Album Review: Pink Siifu – GUMBO’!

Chase McMullen·August 19, 2021

If one were to haplessly try to restrict Pink Siifu to a ‘style’, it might as well be...

Tim Sentz·August 18, 2021

Some time between the release of last year’s Descendants of Cain and now, Brownsville’s sincerest firefighting-rapper Ka decided...

Chase McMullen·August 13, 2021

There was a time when Boldy James’ output was as deliberate as his patient flow. Following his first...

John Wohlmacher·August 6, 2021

Paradise will be mine! SINNER: GET READY! Have you sinned? Have you not slept and not eaten for...

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...