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Comedian and actor Eric André’s very own musical side-project serves up a wild, sample-based ride into the demented side of plunderphonics on Cease & Desist. Not only that, but this record also serves as a giant middle finger to the limitations modern copyright law places on artistic expression within
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Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest is a wonderfully charming singer-songwriter project held back by a somewhat bloated tracklist.
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Holly Herndon’s new album is partially aided by A.I. and features some creative, futuristic art pop pieces, but there are plenty of half-baked experiments as well.
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In League with Dragons is missing just about everything that has made past Mountain Goats albums so great.
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1000 gecs contains the weirdest and wildest combinations of sounds I’ve heard this year.
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U.F.O.F. is mostly listenable—if a bit derivative—indie folk with a few flashes of brilliance sprinkled throughout the tracklist.
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Mac DeMarco pares his songwriting down to something more minimal on Here Comes the Cowboy, losing a lot of personality along the way.
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A Quiet Farwell is an inventive and consistently stimulating collage of underground hip hop and various strands of abstract music.
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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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The Comet Is Coming is doing its part to bring jazz into the next decade.
