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Album Review: Normani – DOPAMINE

Lucas Martins·June 21, 2024

Normani’s solo debut has been long coming. In a way she is a veteran; her journey as part...

Lucas Martins·August 25, 2023

Victoria Monét’s impact on the current state of pop music is underappreciated. Not only was she instrumental in...

But Here We Are is a grief album. There’s no way of getting around that and, thankfully, the...

Larry McClain·March 29, 2023

One of the main tenets of songwriting is to write relatively low-energy verses that build into banger choruses....

Steve Forstneger·November 17, 2022

By now her story is well known, but still bears repeating: Fousheé had been coming at the music...

Jasper WIllems·October 28, 2022

With her masterpiece Ctrl hitting the half-decade mark, SZA does have a habit of making us wait and...

Rob H·June 29, 2022

Steve Lacy recently dropped “Mercury” and said that his new album Gemini Rights was on the way –...

Rob H·April 1, 2022

Rae Morris has announced her long-awaited third album: it’s called Rachel@Fairyland and arrives on July 8 through RCA....

Rob H·November 12, 2021

Danish star MØ has announced her long-awaited follow-up to 2018’s Forever Neverland: it’s called Motordrome and will arrive...

In hindsight, all this talk of Afro-futurism’s return to the forefront of pop culture over the last decade...