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  • Feb 27 Album Reviews

    Future - HNDRXX

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    Future showcases his softer, “sexier” side on HNDRXX, his worst album yet.

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  • Feb 24 Album Reviews

    Jens Lekman - Life Will See You Now

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    Swedish singer-songwriter Jens Lekman goes full-on pop with his follow-up to 2012’s I Know What Love Isn’t.

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  • Feb 22 Album Reviews

    Jonwayne - Rap Album Two

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    With RA2, Jonwayne delivers a disheveled set of alternative hip hop tracks that have potent senses of humor and emotion.

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  • Feb 21 Album Reviews

    Future - Self-Titled

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    Future washes, rinses, and repeats on a new set of merely passable tracks.

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  • Feb 20 Album Reviews

    Sun Kil Moon - Common as Light and Love Are Red Valleys of Blood

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    When Mark Kozelek arrives, baby, he arrives.

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  • Feb 16 Album Reviews

    Quelle Chris - Being You Is Great, I Wish I Could Be You More Often

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    Though Being You Is Great… contains some of Quelle Chris’ most obtuse material, it is also the Detroit MC’s most ambitious and cohesive album yet.

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  • Feb 15 Album Reviews

    Jesca Hoop - Memories Are Now

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    While Jesca Hoop’s latest album does lack a strong sense of identity, its well-crafted songs and beautifully simple instrumentation are more than enough to make it one of the better singer-songwriter releases 2017.

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  • Feb 14 Album Reviews

    Lupe Fiasco - DROGAS Light

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    DROGAS Light is one of Lupe Fiasco’s better attempts at making an album with pop appeal, though it still pales in comparison to his more progressive work like Tetsuo & Youth.

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  • Feb 10 Album Reviews

    Sampha - Process

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    Sampha’s debut album was worth the wait.

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  • Feb 9 Album Reviews

    Iron Reagan - Crossover Ministry

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    Talking with my dude Myke C-Town about this new Iron Reagan album, the Virginian crossover thrash outfit’s second outing for Relapse Records.

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