Category: 8-10 Ratings
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When I use comparisons, I don’t try to use them loosely, especially when some of their parallels have more depth than the surface layer. But after looping the new Disclosure album, Alchemy, for a while, I noticed this unbridled sense of direction, where they can create without features but remain fluid, akin to albums like…
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Grief and heartache will always hold a burnt imprint in hearts despite the ever-growing shift into moving and remembering the great instead of the idea that they will no longer be here. Julie Byrne understands that here as she delivers this beautifully potent ambient folk album with The Greater Wings. Ambiance is a cornerstone of…
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Sometimes you get riddled with musical regret because you haven’t found yourself aware of these independent artists who deliver music akin to one’s preference. That’s how I felt going through the work of San Francisco Singer-Songwriter Tanukichan. Her music is like a bridge between dream-pop and shoegaze within the arrangement, digging deep into the subconscious…
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Coming off a performance with Rosalía at Coachella and appearing during Rosalía’s interview with Hot Ones, Rauw Alejandro decided to play the field and deliver a surprise album underneath the shadows of the highly anticipated Speak Now (Taylor’s Version). Playa Saturno is a continuation of Saturno, released last year; on it, Rauw Alejandro continues to…
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Comparatively more sonically upbeat than her debut album, Good At Falling, but still retaining some of the depth and familiarity one has gotten used to in her writing, The Japanese House’s – Real Name: Amber Mary Bain – new album, In The End It Always Does continues to stride with consistency. Mirroring the title of…
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It’s not often new artists emerge, where one’s curiosity from its album cover becomes something worth remembering. That curiosity led to me spinning 4 PM In The Ville, the debut album by Victorville, California, Singer-Songwriter Genia, and I have looked back since. Genia’s continuing to add to the redefinition of R&B/Soul conventions, blending more modern…
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Tainy was one of the first significant producers I started to follow within Reggaeton. Since then, he has had a consistent pouring of production and has easily transitioned through eras with evergrowing musical ambitions that have shown us Tainy can do more than we know, which is precisely so on his album Data. We hear…
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Geese’s new album 3D Country brings reflections of a band continuously looking for ways to deliver music through unique conceptions and convictions within the instrumentals; it becomes hard not to find some attraction to their sound. Projector, their debut, bolstered these gloomier punk-rock and art-rock constructions, and though the latter continues with 3D Country, it…
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Though fans haven’t seen an absence from Killer Mike, there has been an absence percolating as fans have gone 12 years since a solo outing by the Atlanta Rapper. There’s no better time than the present; with that, Killer Mike delivers an album full of socio-political commentary combined with personal introspections that boast the themes…
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More tender than On The Line, Jenny Lewis returns with beautiful reflections on age and life as she continues maneuvering her 40s on Joy’All. It’s a blissful cadence of Alternative Pop-Country-Rock notes meshed into one wild venture that have you hearing these fun songs that hearten Lewis’s character as she shifts between the cheeky and…
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