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Wednesday Roundups #150: 25 New Projects You Should Listen to Now
Listen to new releases from Tank and the Bangas, Genesis Owusu, Nick Grant, Tone Stith, Adria Kain, ANKHLEJOHN & V Don, Vic Spencer, Lord Sko & Statik…
 • Shatter the Standards
Album Review: PINE by James Savage
A debut R&B album that argues with itself end to end and turns its second-guessing into the title. The hesitation is the engine.
 • Shatter the Standards and Zoe Westfield
Album Review: IRIS by Karen Bernod
A Brooklyn singer returns after a decade with a record that grieves less than the rollout promised, and is stronger for it.
 • Shatter the Standards and Imani Raven
Album Review: Picture Day: A PawPaw Rod Album by PawPaw Rod
Indie-funk that admits, on its second song, that danceable rhythm cannot bring a dead brother back. Most albums this warm refuse to say so.
 • Shatter the Standards and Raya Sinclair
Album Review: Stephon Barbury by UllNevaNo & Philth Spector
A Baltimore rapper merges his name with a Coney Island point guard’s, and the Philly producer behind him chops less than he repeats.
 • Shatter the Standards and Koda Lin
Album Review: From Baton Rouge to Babylon by Ronday & Wino Willy
Wino Willy and Baton Rouge rapper Ronday bend Southern theology over Marcberg-school loops.
 • Shatter the Standards and Harry Brown
Album Review: Inspire Your Idols by Vic Spencer
The South Side rapper who once handed Chance the Rapper’s number around Chicago has spent fifteen years quietly buying back the silence.
 • Shatter the Standards and Okoye
Album Review: Pink Guitars, Spaceships N Voodoo Dolls by JuJu Rogers
A rapper from a Bavarian Army town quotes Gramsci and shouts “fuck the state” with gold teeth. He calls it Afrophunk, spelled with an H.
 • Shatter the Standards and Miles Everette
Album Review: Di Hotel Malibu by Thee Marloes
A three-piece from Surabaya recorded their second album in three languages with no local scene to borrow from. It is the strongest retro-soul record Big…
 • Shatter the Standards and Sierra El-Sayed
Album Review: Of Earth & Wires by Dua Saleh
A grief album built for the dance floor, where the body keeps moving after the mind has already left the room.
 • Shatter the Standards and Jill Wannasa
Album Review: GENESIS FM by BNYX®
A producer who built his reputation moving other people’s bodies makes a debut that only finds a center when the body is the subject.
 • Shatter the Standards and Blaise Freeman
Album Review: Dr*gs R Bad by LUCKI
A Chicago rapper opens his fifth studio album with a spoken definition of heroin nods. Twenty-six songs later he still sounds like he picked up the…
 • Shatter the Standards and Maurice Wren
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