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Canadian MC Shad’s latest album is one of his most ambitious yet. The guy spits his usual brand of clever, playful wordplay over some pretty bright, uplifting instrumentals, I wish the sadder tracks had more emotional impact, though.
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After releasing one of the last year’s most criminally underrated and overlooked records, the melancholy and intelligent A Church That Fits Our Needs, orchestral folk group Lost in the Trees are gearing up for their third album, Past Life. They’ve now released the first single from it, “Rites,
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Los Angeles-based rockers Warpaint have been way too quiet since the release of their stellar debut, The Fool, back in 2010. Now they’ve released a brand new track in anticipation of their sophomore self-titled record. The track, “Love is to Die,” is not too far removed from the tricks
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You’ll be forgiven for not remembering who Throwing Muses are. A group of young alternative rockers that released a few pretty good albums in the 80s and 90s on 4AD–the first U.S. band to be signed to that label, in fact)–today they are much less active.
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Billy Woods and Elucid team up on Race Music to make one of the most dense hip hop albums to come out this year. With seventeen tracks laced with this duo’s esoteric lyricism, this one’s gonna require quite a few replays for maximum enjoyment and comprehension. A few
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Loaded with insipid lyrics, amateur singing, and childish melodies, it’s pretty clear the the pop duo known as Cults has no desire whatsoever to mature their sound. There’s definitely more ambition on this record on the instrumental side; featuring an increase in instrumental layers. However, what ends up
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Washington D.C.’s the Dismemberment Plan return after more than ten years of studio album silence, but this latest release of there’s feels like a less peppy and eccentric version of their former selves.
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Always-controversial singer-songwriter M.I.A. is finally gearing up to release her new record, Matangi, this November. As such, she has let loose the official audio of her new track “Y.A.L.A.”–which is an acronym for “You Always Live Again.” I, for one, was a bigger fan
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Scottish alt-hip hop trio Young Fathers have left me pretty impressed with their creative lo-fi fusions of rap, African music, reggae, and more on the two “tapes” they’ve dropped thus far, but I’ve always thought there was more potential in what the group was offering–especially if the
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Canadian music producer Tim Hecker returns with a stunning collection of tracks that make for some of the most beautiful music I’ve heard this year.
