Album of the Week
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Album of the Week: Revelations by Shamir
“It’s not really that calculated anymore. I’m bearing my soul in these songs, and just giving it how it is.”
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Album of the Week: Julien Baker’s Turn Out the Lights
“Passivity is a tacit endorsement of evil we are too afraid to oppose actively. You can’t just always let go.”
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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.”
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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.”
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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.
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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.
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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.”
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Album of the Week: Call It Love by Briana Marela
Call It Love is Briana Marela’s third album, and her first after signing with Jagjaguwar. In the album’s ten tracks, the Seattleite explores the many facets of love, from its early sweet moments to the ending of a relationship, with a…
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Album of the Week: Vic Mensa’s The Autobiography
At only twenty-four, Vic Mensa is already an established member of the Chicago music scene and a social justice activist—from protesting his hometown police department after the shooting of shooting of Laquan McDonald to flying to Standing Rock and joining…
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Album of the Week: Mellow Waves by Cornelius
Cornelius is the alter ego of the legendary Japanese composer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Keigo Oyamada. Twenty years after releasing their iconic album Fantasma in 1997, and putting an end to an eleven-year-long silence, the Tokyo-based musician and his band are…
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Album of the Week: Waxahatchee’s Out in the Storm
Waxahatchee just released Out in the Storm, via Merge Records, last week. Back in April, singer-songwriter Katie Crutchfield spoke to Abby Haglage over at Lenny Letter about what’s behind the band’s fourth album: I don’t want to call it a break-up record, but it…