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Album Review: DRY CLEAN ONLY by S!LENCE & tenten
Over a run of tenten beats built from samples, S!LENCE runs dry-cleaning bills, luxury watches, and a brutal New York winter through his verses. It's…
Jun 29
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Phil
Album Review: BOUNDS by Beedie & Nice Rec
Beedie gives Nice Rec the whole board and turns his scars into the loudest thing in the room. His most gripping writing in years, gilded front to back.
Jun 29
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Nehemiah
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Album Review: Life Is... Fleeting by Lync Lone
Lync Lone writes dread and defiance of weed, money pressure, and Rochester street names.
Jun 29
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Wesley Durham
Album Review: Lane Hall by JRDN & Lane Hall
Fronting the Halifax soul collective Lane Hall, JRDN sings love, family, and a city by the ocean over a working band’s warm production, and the songs…
Jun 28
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Amaya🎀
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Mixtape Review: The Elephant In the Room by Catch
On her debut mixtape, Catch writes incarceration, grief, and her own queer desire into one unbroken self-portrait, and the Lewisham rapper’s eye for the…
Jun 28
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Jill Wannasa
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Album Review: Clef Notes — Quantum Leap, Vol. 1 by Wyclef Jean
Wyclef Jean narrates a Haiti-to-Brooklyn life with the years thrown deliberately out of order, and plays connective tissue between Rapsody, Lil Wayne…
Jun 28
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Mina Abdel
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Album Review: Holly Grove by Jadasea
Jadasea mixes his voice so far under the bass that half of Holly Grove barely surfaces. The deeper he buries it, the better the record gets.
Jun 28
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Koda Lin
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Album Review: ML2 by YoungBoy Never Broke Again
Across 20 tracks of one heavy trap mode and a sequel to his last year’s compilation, YoungBoy Never Broke Again’s love songs and his street songs keep…
Jun 28
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DeShawn Ellis
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Album Review: Good Time Boy by Prof
Prof has built eight albums on being the most unhinged man in any room. On this one, he keeps clowning straight through the addiction and the inherited…
Jun 28
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Oliver I. Martin
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Album Review: 97 Bad Boy by Rico Love
The man who wrote Usher’s “Throwback” and Beyoncé’s “Sweet Dreams” steps out for an album that wants one woman. The rap detail he folds into the…
Jun 27
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Jamila W.
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Album Review: 2 LIVE! by K, Le Maestro
Five years after Whip Music, the London producer turns a seventeen-track guest list into one record, and his bass-heavy drums are the reason it holds…
Jun 27
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Harry Brown
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Album Review: Time Will Tell by Devon Gilfillian
Cut live to tape in single takes, Gilfillian’s soul album bets on the voice over polish. From rock spiral to country-soul thank-you, he means every…
Jun 27
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Kendra Vale
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