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- Summary: The latest full-length release from Philadelphia-based artist Moor Mother features guest appearances by Alya Al Sultani, Lonnie Holley, Justmadnice, Kyle Kidd, Sistazz of the Nitty Gritty, and Raia Was.
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- Record Label: Anti-
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock
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Mar 19, 2024As excerpts of poetry sound like heart-stricken dialogue and foggy soundscapes take the shape of a score, it often steps out of the confines of music and begins to approach theatre.
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Mar 8, 2024Moor Mother’s latest album is a tough listen, and might take a bit of research and a few listens to fully situate in its various contexts. This is all to be expected — grappling with terrible moments in history is never a pleasant or easy experience, but Ayewa makes the pain of remembering feel like fuel for the future.
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Mar 8, 2024It is precisely this linkage between systematized death and riches that makes the album such a mortifying listen and perhaps the most essential of 2024.
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MojoMar 5, 2024The Great Bailout is a grand, artistic and political statement in an age when such vision is too rarely attempted. [Apr 2024, p.87]
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Mar 7, 2024Her concentration on an especially brutal historical subject makes it one of her most bracing works, and it becomes more compelling and powerful with increased intention and awareness.
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Mar 7, 2024It’s a wonderfully strange, dense, and visceral album that finds solace in uncanny experimentalism.
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Mar 5, 2024The Great Bailout, while resting handily within her trademark virulent atmospheres and spoken word, is among her most impenetrable and least entertaining from a practical sense. This is not a fault of the record, but a necessary and expected byproduct of its existence, as each track runs up to ten minutes in a dirge of menacing poetry with instrumentals more evocative of a sinister mood-piece than a traditional song