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Flume’s full-length followup to 2016’s Skin takes a very welcome turn for the experimental.
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Even after 25 years, Matmos is creating some of the most fun and inventive electronic music you’ll hear in your life.
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A Long Red Hot Los Angeles Summer Night contains quite a bit of Blu and Oh No’s best work to date.
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Light in the Attic comes out with an excellent compilation of old school ambient music from 1980s Japan, an era and location that hasn’t gotten enough shine up until this point.
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Sweetener is no longer Ariana Grande’s strongest album.
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Marquis Hill and his band come through with a vibrant blend of dynamic jazz and conscious hip hop on Modern Flows, Vol. 2.
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Some Rap Songs is Earl Sweatshirt’s most emotionally intense and artistically defined project yet.
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With sick flows and a versatile delivery, J.I.D’s latest effort is one of the rawest and most lyrically refined rap albums of the year.
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Oxnard has a stronger sense of direction than its predecessor and is a breath of fresh air in the current state of pop rap and neo-soul.
