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Listening to Doko Mien is like hearing Ibibio Sound Machine’s great sophomore album Uyai all over again, albeit in a slightly diminished capacity.
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Oxnard has a stronger sense of direction than its predecessor and is a breath of fresh air in the current state of pop rap and neo-soul.
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This past week, Nicolas Jaar ‘covertly’ released an album titled 2012-2017 under his Against All Logic alias. As you may have guessed, it compiles much of the material he recorded as A.A.L between those years, including previously released pieces like “I Never Dream” and “Flash in the Pan.
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Classics Week continues with a review of the best-selling album of all time.
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Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings’ final record is a celebration of everything that made the soul revivalists great since their inception in the early ’00s.
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Ibibio Sound Machine’s Uyai is the grand and adventurous Afro-Funk album I wanted their self-titled debut to be.
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Colombian supergroup Ondatrópica continues to fuse genres from across South America on their sophomore album.
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Though Drunk brings a heaping helping of Thundercat’s spectacular bass playing and sense of humor, the album is also rife with filler and underwritten jazz motifs.
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With Remain in Light, the Talking Heads released one of the funkiest and most essential albums of the ’80s.
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Childish Gambino carves his own niche in the recent wave of vintage soul revivalism with Awaken, My Love!
