Pop
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“Bet Ain’t Worth the Hand” and “Bad Bad News” are the first singles leading up to soul singer Leon Bridges’ sophomore album, Good Thing. It’s dropping May 4 via Columbia and follows his 2015 debut, Coming Home. With these new singles, Bridges shifts slightly towards a more modern
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While not quite the grand artistic and social statement it was intended to be, American Utopia is brimming with forward-thinking pop and David Byrne’s unique persona.
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“Flower of the Universe” is British soul singer Sade’s first new release since her 2010 album Soldier of Love. The song was written for the A Wrinkle in Time OST, which also features contributions from the likes of DJ Khaled, Sia, and Kehlani. A remix of the song by
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Yesterday, Beach House shared “Dive,” the second single from their upcoming album, 7. The song features the dream pop mainstay’s typically spacey and reverb-heavy sound, but doesn’t follow the structure featured in lead single “Lemon Glow.” Instead, “Dive” is a slow build starting with synths and a steady
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Oxnard singer, producer, rapper, and drummer Anderson .Paak has released his first single since his last solo album, 2016’s Malibu. Despite not releasing any of his own music for over a year, .Paak has been busy with numerous features and collaborations. Notably Yes Lawd!, his collaborative effort with Knxwledge
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With In a Poem Unlimited, U.S. Girls delivers what is sure to be one of the year’s most versatile and lyrically intriguing pop albums.
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Apart from the great lead single “Only Acting,” this new Kero Kero Bonito EP is pretty scant.
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This latest EP from Chicago R&B singer Ravyn Lenae contains some of her boldest material yet. I’m looking forward to a full-length project!
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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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Kero Kero Bonito is back with a new single called “Only Acting,” which is being heralded as their first song to prominently feature rock instrumentation. The hook is power pop bliss, but there’s a bit of a dark undercurrent to the whole thing, which I at first suspected came