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It’s all downhill after the first song.
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Genesis Owusu’s full-length debut is impressive, occasionally even overambitious.
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Rina Sawayama comes to us as a near-fully formed popstar on her debut album.
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There are a lot of genuinely beautiful, cold, and otherworldly ideas throughout E; still, many of the songs leave me hungry for more.
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At long last, here’s how I’d rank the albums of Icelandic singer, songwriter, producer, arranger… pop avant-gardist, Björk.
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Royal Blood’s debut album may contain some hot singles, but the music itself is dying for a refreshing, distinct idea.
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FKA Twigs’ debut album showcases the UK-based singer’s most coherent songs yet; creatively mashing together contemporary R&B with art pop and experimental hip hop-style production.
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Otis Brown III’s debut is a tight, tasteful jazz offering.
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Prototype by Courageous Endeavors Courageous Endeavors is a modern jazz quartet from Minneapolis whose members fancy themselves “the Twin Cities’ answer to the relevance of jazz in the 21st century.” I’d say with this debut album of theirs, Prototype, they live up to that. If you’re looking for
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Stream: Big Ups – Eighteen Hours of Static Eighteen Hours of Static, the debut LP from New York punk outfit Big Ups, is a refreshing half hour of caustic and cathartic post-hardcore. The mix here is muddy, the playing is messy, and the vocals of frontman Joe Galarraga are manic – often
