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  The Alchemist, MIKE and Wiki Conjure Effortless Chemistry on 'Faith Is a Rock'

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  PUBLISHED Sep 22, 2023

  Faith Is a Rock is one of the most flat-out beautiful rap albums I've heard in ages. With the Alchemist on production — continuing an extre...

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  Hillsboro's Self-Titled Debut Is a Sparking Live Wire

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  PUBLISHED Sep 21, 2023

  It's not everyday that a band shows up in your inbox with a debut album that sounds so fully formed. I don't know what I was expecting when...

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  Faye Webster Is in No Rush on the Beautiful "Lifetime"

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  PUBLISHED Sep 20, 2023

  Faye Webster's music tends to find a molasses-slow groove — sun-warmed and droopy eyed, the kind that you could sorta just vibe on for hour...

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  Crumb and Melody's Echo Chamber Feel the Gentle Sting of Memory on "Le Temple Volant"

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  PUBLISHED Sep 19, 2023

  There's something so comfortable to me about a collaboration between Crumb and Melody's Echo Chamber, maybe because many of my university d...

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  Gatlin Finds Something Like Closure on 'I Sleep Fine Now'

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  PUBLISHED Sep 15, 2023

  Clarity. That's the sheen-smeared word that first comes to mind when I think of Gatlin, a singer-songwriter who is actually from Orlando, F...

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  Loraine James Is Caught in the Anxieties of Digital Romance on "I DM U"

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  PUBLISHED Sep 14, 2023

  Loraine James's Gentle Confrontation is said to be an album the artist's younger self would have made, though its centrepiece "I DM U" capt...

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  Love's as Old as the Universe Itself on Big Thief's Radiant "Born for Loving You"

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  PUBLISHED Sep 13, 2023

  There's a very silly joke that stands out from 1982's Airplane II: The Sequel, when the flight is in trouble and the air traffic controller...

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  The Late jaimie branch Is Airborne on 'Fly or Die Fly or Die Fly or Die ((world war))'

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  PUBLISHED Sep 12, 2023

  There's no telling where the flight plan would have guided the late jaimie branch and her Fly or Die ensemble. But if the American trumpete...