Album Reviews

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  Bonobo's 'Fragments' Is an Inspiring Meld of Organic and Electronic

  PUBLISHED Jan 13, 2022

  From the moment Fragments begins, you know you've arrived. Where is of little consequence — it's certainly not bearing of any physical loca...

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  Chastity Plumbs the Passion of Emo on 'Suffer Summer'

  PUBLISHED Jan 12, 2022

  The genius of Chastity's 2018 debut Death Lust manifests in the many roads it opened for the project's mastermind Brandon Williams. Death L...

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  Gunna Is Best When He Stays in His Lane on 'DS4EVER'

  PUBLISHED Jan 12, 2022

  Like any emerging rap artist from the South, Gunna's emergence into the hip-hop consciousness in the late 2010s was met with a number of co...

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  The Weeknd Cements His Status as an All-Time Great on 'Dawn FM'

  PUBLISHED Jan 10, 2022

  It's rare to be able to acknowledge the presence of an all-time great while they're still in their prime, but when an artist has made it as...

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  Nas Deepens His Legacy by Making 'Magic'

  PUBLISHED Jan 4, 2022

  On Christmas Eve, veteran Queens MC Nas dropped his Magic project to an unsuspecting audience. If the Grammy win and nomination for his fir...

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  Rick Ross Revels in His Signature Sound and Style on 'Richer Than I Ever Been'

  PUBLISHED Dec 14, 2021

  Rick Ross has spent almost twenty years mastering not only his craft, but his character and sound. Album after album, Ross has expanded his...

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  Teen Daze's 'Interior' Embraces the Power (and Production) of House Music

  PUBLISHED Dec 9, 2021

  Interior, the newest release from British Columbia's Teen Daze, finds producer Jamison Isaak succeeding his signature realist ambiance with...

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  Beatrice Deer's 'SHIFTING' Is a Multilingual Merger of Darkness and Light

  PUBLISHED Dec 8, 2021

  Montreal-based singer-songwriter Beatrice Deer understands how to merge opposite worlds to birth a fresh, inventive new one. A blend of mod...