alternative r&b
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Back to being a band, Dirty Projectors squanders a fair bit of potential on Lamp Lit Prose.
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serpentwithfeet’s debut album adeptly presents love in a simultaneously sweet and unsettling light, only occasionally being held back by some uneventful instrumentals.
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The fuck am I looking at—a Brockhampton music video that’s not in 4:3? Y’all were right: RCA changed them! Piss-take aside, “1999 WILDFIRE” is the All-American Boyband’s first official single of the year, promoting their upcoming album The Best Years of Our Lives, and it’
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The only commendable thing about Red Light is that it’d be almost impossible to parody with a worse sounding version.
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KIDS SEE GHOSTS finds both Kanye West and Kid Cudi in top form as they host a psychedelic odyssey through the darkest and brightest corners of their psyches.
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New York-based singer and avant-garde artist serpentwithfeet will release his debut album soil tomorrow through Secretly Canadian. The album’s singles so far have displayed the artist’s unique mix of soul and electronic music. The latest single, “seedless,” is co-produced with Clams Casino. serpentwithfeet’s trembling falsetto is here
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Zephyr isn’t a particularly cutting edge pop and R&B album, but with all the classy instrumentation, impassioned singing, and thoughtful writing, NIKI has a lot going for her right out of the gate.
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Testing contains some interesting ideas here and there, but they aren’t performed or organized all that well a great deal of the time.
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Though Tear has its consistency issues and its concept is sacrificed for the sake of having something for everybody, BTS is making ambitious and passionately performed pop music that puts many of their Western contemporaries to shame.
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In January, James Blake released the mellow, atmospheric single “If the Car Beside You Moves Ahead.” Now he has followed it up with “Don’t Miss It,” a collaboration with Mount Kimbie’s Dominic Maker. The tender ballad has a similarly glitchy aesthetic to its predecessor and features self-reflective lyrics