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Album of the Week: St. Vincent’s MASSEDUCTION
"You can’t fact-check it, but if you want to know about my life, listen to this record."
Wanted/Needed/Loved: Zola Jesus’s Natural World
About a year ago, I ended up returning to the land where I grew up and building a house here.
Album of the Week: Take Me Apart by Kelela
"The reality is that the way that I’m expressing myself on this record is coming from a place of vulnerability that is very much in the tradition of R&B."
Album of the Week: Moses Sumney’s Aromanticism
AROMANTICISM is a new vision of songwriting, a trip into contemporary loneliness, and proof that, nowadays, every man is an island.
Album of the Week: Annie Hart’s Impossible Accomplice
Annie Hart, singer, keyboardist, and bassist for Au Revoir Simone, is debuting a solo album, IMPOSSIBLE ACCOMPLICE, out via Uninhabitable Mansions.
Wanted/Needed/Loved: Franklin James Fisher’s “Rhoda”
I have to work to get the sounds, but then the magic kicks in.
Album of the Week: Forced Witness by Alex Cameron
"Where does one draw the line when you as a person believe in progress, but as a writer feel like you need to focus on people who would challenge that, who would ask us to regress?"
Working through Trauma
Danilova says the act of making the album helped her to work through this shared existential trauma.
Hitch in the Voice
I hear a man singing for his life, desperate in a way he would never be again and had never been before.
Album of the Week: Nadine Shah’s Holiday Destination
"The fact that they had no shame in saying that whilst being interviewed, on national television... it really shocked me."