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Album Review: Daughter from Hell by Gracie Abrams
Written and recorded with Aaron Dessner, Gracie Abrams’ third album casts her as the one doing the damage.
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Charlotte Rochel
Album Review: Oh yeah? by Steve Lacy
Steve Lacy cut much of his third album in Paris with a clear head for the first time. The love songs that came back are the most direct he’s ever sung.
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Reuben Dara
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EP Review: Twenty Something by Jaz Karis
Reunited with the sound that introduced her, the South London singer turns the fights, unsent texts, and unreturned calls of her twenties into her…
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Zoe Westfield
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EP Review: Lady Luck by Olympia Vitalis
A painting about money on her producer’s wall became a song about fire. On her second EP, West London’s Olympia Vitalis writes want as the habit that…
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Jill Wannasa
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Album Review: POWER HOUSE by Magi Merlin
Five years of EPs behind her, the Montreal singer-producer scales her self-coined broken R&B up to a debut full-length of taunts, gratitude used as a…
Jul 15
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Osei Addae
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Milestones: Savage Mode by 21 Savage & Metro Boomin
21 Savage’s first hit, paired with the most committed strip-down of Metro Boomin’s career. Atlanta trap as the after-part of feeling.
Jul 15
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Randy
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Album Review: My Reckless Abandon by Bella Kay
On her debut album, the 20-year-old behind 2025’s viral “The Sick” writes about crushes, sex, food, and family with a candor most songwriters never…
Jul 15
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Sabine Okafemi
Wednesday Roundups #157: 25 New Projects You Should Listen to Now
Listen to new releases from La Reezy, Juicy J & Project Pat, Sango, FATHERS, Allison Russell, Chuck Strangers, Raz Fresco, Jaz Karis, Zae France, Lute…
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Album Review: People Are Not Your Friends by Another Planet & steel tipped dove
Rapping over dove’s loops with their childhood friendship as the only alliance left standing, Phiik and Lungs turn distrust into the densest, funniest…
Jul 14
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Koda Lin
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Album Review: Dem Goats by Juicy J & Project Pat
After thirty years of trading verses on each other’s tapes, Juicy J and Project Pat finally make a full album together, a blunt-drum instruction manual…
Jul 14
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Fallon Reese
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Album Review: TRY AS I MIGHT by SWAMP THUG
After a decade of nonstop Bandcamp releases, SWAMP THUG raps about the living he can’t make over Camoflauge Monk’s loops and GAWD’s sub-bass, and comes…
Jul 14
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Greg J.
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The Handguide to Clavinet Funk
After “Superstition” went big, every keyboardist in Black music wanted that bite, and sixty songs follow the D6 from gospel quartets to Graterford…
Jul 14
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Brandon O'Sullivan
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