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  • Jun 15 Album Reviews

    SZA - Ctrl

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    SZA delivers a strong full-length debut that explores the emotional complexities of being the other woman.

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  • Jun 14 Album Reviews

    Sufjan Stevens, Nico Muhly, Bryce Dessner, James McAlister - Planetarium

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    For an album inspired by the cosmos, Planetarium is lacking quite a bit in the way of flow and harmony.

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  • Jun 14 Album Reviews

    Katy Perry - Witness

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    Witness finds Katy Perry heading in exciting new sonic and lyrical directions, but is sometimes held back by Katy indulging in safer, staler sounds and her usual cliches.

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  • Jun 12 Album Reviews

    Brockhampton - Saturation

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    On Saturation, Brockhampton jells in a way no other group their size has in quite some time. Definitely my frontrunner for hip hop project of the year at the moment.

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  • Jun 11 2017

    Best & Worst Tracks: 6/11 (Jay Electronica, Miley Cyrus, Lorde, Toro Y Moi, Ariel Pink, Gorillaz)

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    The weekly segment in which Anthony touches down on some of the best and worst tracks he has heard in the past week.

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  • Jun 8 Album Reviews

    Beach Fossils - Somersault

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    4 years after Beach Fossils’ great sophomore album Clash the Truth, the Brooklyn band has returned with their most lavish effort yet. I can still commend the band for not shamelessly trend-chasing like many of their dreamy, jangly contemporaries, but unfortunately the pastiche of ’60s pop sounds they serve up

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  • Jun 7 Album Reviews

    Roger Waters - Is This the Life We Really Want?

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    Former Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters applies the politically charged spirit of his past work to the political landscape of today on his latest release.

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  • Jun 6 Album Reviews

    alt-J - Relaxer

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    alt-J’s third album is the UK art pop outfit’s most inconsistent yet.

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  • Jun 5 2017

    STINKPIECE: The Beatles Are for Men!!!

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    Today I’m responding to a wonderful thinkpiece Salon published to commemorate the 50th anniversary of The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, which claims that the seminal album forever ruined rock music for women. Brace yourselves, this might just be the foulest stinker yet.

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  • Jun 4 2 chains

    Best & Worst Tracks: 6/4 (Jake Paul, Arcade Fire, Radiohead, Foo Fighters, Lorde, 21 Savage)

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    The weekly segment in which Anthony touches down on some of the best and worst tracks he has heard in the past week.

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