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  • May 16 Album Reviews

    Slauson Malone - A Quiet Farwell, 2016–2018

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    A Quiet Farwell is an inventive and consistently stimulating collage of underground hip hop and various strands of abstract music.

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  • May 14 Album Reviews

    Gus Dapperton - Where Polly People Go to Read

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    Gus Dapperton’s debut album is a shoddy mix of all the most agreeable sounds to have been popularized in the indie scene over the past decade.

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  • May 13 Album Reviews

    King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Fishing for Fishies

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    Fishing for Fishies is a fun and eco-friendly boogie rock odyssey.

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  • May 2 Album Reviews

    Rico Nasty & Kenny Beats - Anger Management

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    Anger Management finds Rico Nasty continuing to be one of the boldest voices in the current rap landscape, but the project’s brevity is unfortunately to its detriment.

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  • May 1 Album Reviews

    ScHoolboy Q - CrasH Talk

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    CrasH Talk sounds strangely dated and is a disappointingly safe effort from Q following Blank Face.

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  • Apr 30 Album Reviews

    Sunn O))) - Life Metal

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    Life Metal is Sunn O)))’s best sounding album to date, though not their most adventurous.

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  • Apr 29 Album Reviews

    Kevin Abstract - ARIZONA BABY

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    Kevin Abstract’s ARIZONA BABY, while sometimes messy, is an admirably intimate and candid solo project from the Brockhampton star.

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  • Apr 27 Album Reviews

    Beyoncé - HOMECOMING: The Live Album

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    Beyoncé pulls out all the stops on HOMECOMING, a live album of epic proportions.

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  • Apr 26 Album Reviews

    Your Old Droog - It Wasn't Even Close

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    Your Old Droog dates himself more than ever on It Wasn’t Even Close, but that continues to be much of his music’s charm.

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  • Apr 24 Album Reviews

    Cage the Elephant - Social Cues

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    The songwriting on Social Cues is far too tame to live up to the album’s dark backstory.

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