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JMSN’s new album doesn’t reinvent the soul and R&B wheels, but but does show a deep appreciation for the genres’ aesthetics and has quality production and songwriting in spades.
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Noname’s music has only gotten even more gorgeous and charming since her breakthrough mixtape Telefone.
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On Swimming, Mac Miller continues to work outside of his strengths without improving at all upon the obvious weaknesses of his previous album.
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Pretty much all the awkward kinks in The Internet’s previous albums evaporate on Hive Mind.
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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 debut album from Philly hip hop artist Tierra Whack is an endearing set of pop rap and alternative R&B miniatures.
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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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Ye paints a vivid picture of Kanye’s current state of self and, for as brief as it is, succeeds as an intimate exploration of family and mental health.
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The recent reissue of Frank Ocean’s 2016 video album Endless reveals the music to be every bit as fulfilling as its follow-up, Blonde.
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Dirty Computer is Janelle Monáe’s poppiest album to date, as well as her most deeply sexual and political.
