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Average Music review score: 65
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Tension may not be the defining characteristic of Foxygen's sound this time around, but it's still there, bubbling up furiously beneath the sparkling surface.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Jan 10, 2017
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What makes Oczy Mlody so enthralling is that the Flaming Lips are ambitious in their exploration of the aftermath of their typical spectacle.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Jan 4, 2017
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The result is one of his most nuanced and meticulous pieces but not one dependent on--nor effectively displaying--its little deviations.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Jan 3, 2017
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hough the Stones are firing on all cylinders throughout Blue & Lonesome, and to a greater extent than they have in decades, they’re hamstrung by the inherent limitations of only playing Chicago blues covers; there are only so many 12- and 16-bar blues tunes you can string together in a row.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Dec 12, 2016
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Ultimately, Woman‘s choral and orchestral contributions make the album stand out not only from Justice’s own prior work, but also from the throng of more repetitive electronic music that’s prevalent today.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Nov 17, 2016
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A contoured album that hits a sweet spot between kinetic and laidback.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Nov 9, 2016
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His technical skill and workmanlike approach to grimy, delightfully vulgar subject matter is on full display here.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Nov 7, 2016
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At times Here feels like it wants to be What's Going On, the standard-bearer of socially-conscious soul, but it's more akin to Stevie Wonder's Innervisions, mixing the political with the personal.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Nov 7, 2016
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Eternally Even is the sound of a road-worn artist, whose music normally channels the awe and splendor of his country, challenging its structure and finding the deepest valley he's ever seen.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Nov 3, 2016
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Lady Wood is admirably lean and tightly focused, and though it doesn’t boast confessionals on the order of Like a Prayer‘s, it offers a peek inside the psyche of a smart, burgeoning young star.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Oct 28, 2016
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You Want It Darker doesn’t just boast a broad sonic palette, but the return of a broad-minded pop sensibility to his work after a sustained period of asceticism, with a precise lyrical platform granted manifold meanings through differing musical approaches, the songs bolstered by Eastern rhythms, full-bodied organ lines, and choral chants.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Oct 24, 2016
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BROOKZILL's cultural synthesis wouldn't be possible without the skillfully realized instrumentation: 808-style breakbeats are masterfully mixed with samba percussion on “Raise the Flag,” “Mysterious,” and “S. Bento MC5,” creating unexpected rhythms, but ones which still make sense within a traditional hip-hop framework.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Oct 17, 2016
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In less capable hands, Ruminations's sad, lonely songs would be mired in abject misery rather than acting as a lugubrious form of catharsis as they do here. Oberst breathes pained, desperate life into his characters.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Oct 13, 2016
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The music is dementedly, nihilistically danceable. The propulsion of certain tracks seems designed to irrevocably drag the listener into Brown's contemplative, paranoid psyche and deep-welled emotionality and, though stylized, intimates the horrors he's seen and felt.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Oct 11, 2016
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Three represents only an incremental progression, not the seismic shift of Voices, but it demonstrates the duo's ability to transform darkness into light, taking personal tragedy and shaping it into professional growth.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Oct 3, 2016
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The band displays a new level of clear-eyed purpose and here-and-now urgency on American Band. Eloquently plainspoken as ever about the pressing issues we face as a nation, they’ve made an album multiple decades into their career that establishes them as more directly relevant than ever.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Sep 26, 2016
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The cracks, breaks, and flaws in Vernon's voice allow his humanity to shine through a little more. By saying less and embracing fragility, He sounds more vulnerable than ever.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Sep 23, 2016
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An intimate existential chronicle of imprisonment and liberation, its visceral, blood-smeared intensity works off a steady heartbeat of acute artistic ferment, the roiling passion underlying Hval's powerful declaration of self.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Sep 19, 2016
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Against Me! has returned with something truly personal, an album that has the nerve to be small.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Sep 16, 2016
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While it may not be Cave's most accessible album, owing both to the experimental nature of much of the music and the fact that its level of emotional rawness makes it a legitimately uncomfortable listen in places, it may very well be his best.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Sep 12, 2016
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Preoccupations, by design, neither grips nor pays off with the same level of gleeful improvisational intensity [as 2015's Viet Cong].- Slant Magazine
- Posted Sep 9, 2016
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- Posted Sep 6, 2016
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Prima Donna's standout title track encapsulates Staples's appeal as a lyricist—and the appeal of the EP as a whole.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Sep 6, 2016
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Schmilco is a deeply personal work. It’s also an album that so sincerely accepts maturation beyond supposed stasis, or prurient middle-age crises, that it should make us drop the term “dad rock” as a pejorative and accept that it can also be used as a description of high art.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Sep 2, 2016
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While My Woman may not be as powerful as Burn Your Fire for No Witness, it draws its strength from its creator’s sheer temerity to so drastically change course.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Sep 1, 2016
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What results is a subtle study in duality, anchored by a single overt guest appearance--Andre 3000’s prickly, gymnastic verse on “Solo (Reprise)”--that, like an abstract of the album in miniature, manically splits off in a dozen topical directions at once.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Aug 24, 2016
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By eschewing the harsh, dubstep-influenced EDM of her past two albums and embracing subtler pop and R&B sounds, Britney's made her most daring, mature album in years.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Aug 22, 2016
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Loveless manages to strike a similarly compelling balance of grit and pop throughout the rest of Real.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Aug 10, 2016
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Not given over entirely to the atmospherics of Beyond, the heavy jamminess of Farm, or the poppiness of I Bet on Sky, Give a Glimpse instead combines all those stylistic elements into a package that may not feature as many lastingly memorable songs, but is replete with all the welcome signatures of the band's sound.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Jul 27, 2016
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Love & Hate shows lateral growth in its procession of art-rock odysseys and more standard fare, and proof that Kiwanuka can wield power over a number of arrangements, even dense ones.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Jul 13, 2016
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For those fascinated by the Avalanches's process, as opposed to merely impressed by its most endearing results, Wildflower is a rewarding and challenging listen.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Jul 6, 2016
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Freetown Sound certainly has the sprawl, hyperactivity, and potential of a personal masterwork, but its master is more conduit and conductor than confessor.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Jun 28, 2016
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That The Bride works best as a song cycle rather than a collection of pop hooks is a testament to its cohesion and intrinsic intertexuality, but what's missing here is Khan's knack for grafting avant-art-rock concepts onto mainstream forms.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Jun 27, 2016
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It's the fascinating work of two artists committed to sounding non-committal.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Jun 22, 2016
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- Posted Jun 17, 2016
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Another bold, beautiful statement of purpose that also stands as a singularly menacing test of listener endurance.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Jun 14, 2016
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The best songs here to showcase Jonas as an artist come toward the end, when Last Year Was Complicated trends away from its production excesses.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Jun 13, 2016
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case/lang/veirs flows like a conversation and negotiation between three women who've done the same thing, but in different ways, now learning the world through each other's eyes.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Jun 10, 2016
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Aside from those gratifying but superfluous detours into the well-trodden, though, Strange Little Birds emerges as the band's most compelling, adventurous album in 15 years.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Jun 6, 2016
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If the burden on electronic producers is to establish personality beyond a dense network of light displays and computer processing, this album gets Flume halfway there: It shows him as unquestionably human (overeager, alternately flashy and timid, sometimes more in awe than in control), but still a bit faceless.- Slant Magazine
- Posted May 27, 2016
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Though the album immediately shifts gears with the decidedly more contemporary title track, a sultry waltz in which the singer implores her man to “test [her] limits,” assuring him that, underneath, every 21-century woman is a “bad girl,” there are smart, unexpected nods to yesteryear throughout the remainder of Dangerous Woman.- Slant Magazine
- Posted May 20, 2016
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While A Moon Shaped Pool offers little in the way of new sonic territory, its newly naked and incisive portrayal of emotional vulnerability remains a resoundingly major achievement.- Slant Magazine
- Posted May 11, 2016
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Eagulls are also gloomier, swapping the punk-rock call-and-response style of their debut for a more reflective kind of musical angst. But Ullages's best tracks are the most energetic.- Slant Magazine
- Posted May 10, 2016
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Pantha remains less interested in constructivist concept pieces than interlinked studies riffing on a consistent theme, in which naturalistic splendor is conveyed by the interplay between thumping dynamism and sedate tranquility.- Slant Magazine
- Posted May 9, 2016
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Left to his own devices, Bates's skittering effects and big, cavernous soundscapes can leave a metallic aftertaste like a mouthful of antibiotics, but the album's female guests--including Norwegian singer-songwriter Susanne Sundfør--provide the blood for Trágame Tierra's big, beating heart.- Slant Magazine
- Posted May 6, 2016
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Will's coup is how it keeps one guessing, and how Barwick keeps from relying on the beautiful yet impersonal sonic washes of her past work. It's the sound an artist, whose mysterious and celebrated process has ironically created theatrical and curated work to this point, finally achieving subtlety.- Slant Magazine
- Posted May 2, 2016
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Drake is still skilled enough to carry off this pose with the effortlessness needed to make it credible, freighted as Views may be with cheeseball lines and repetitive refrains. These soft points have always been part of the charm, however, and while the album is overlong and presents nothing truly explosive or exhilarating, it generally works as a steady low-key collection of modish, contemplative mood music.- Slant Magazine
- Posted May 2, 2016
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- Posted Apr 29, 2016
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If Lemonade feels less ambitious than the near-70-minute Beyoncé, it's probably because the penetrating spoken-word interludes, composed of verses by Somali-British poet Warsan Shire, featured in Lemonade's accompanying long-form music video have been excised from the album itself.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Apr 26, 2016
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Simply enough, Love Streams is a discomforting listen, and the addition of voices to Hecker's repertoire adds an additional tool of disorientation to his web of repurposed crackles and spurts, not the warmth one might expect.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Apr 8, 2016
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Fortunately, throughout the rest of the album, the band writes songs that allow them to excel as they stay well within their limitations. These are tight, economical pop songs actually worthy of Pavement comparisons in terms of not just sound, but melody.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Apr 5, 2016
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- Posted Mar 24, 2016
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It’s easy to chastise aging pop stars for chasing trends or trying to recapture past glories, but those efforts here are thrown into sharp relief by the maturity of the album’s first half.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Mar 17, 2016
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A few songs, like “American Valhalla” and “In the Lobby,” are rather dreary, and feel like Homme and Pop just spinning their wheels; they could have used a bit of a Stooges-style kick in the ass. Even on the slower songs, though, Homme and the stripped-down lineup he assembled for the album--fellow Queen of the Stone Age Dean Fertita, and Arctic Monkeys drummer Matt Helders--provide a heavy, rhythmic bedrock and stylistic versatility.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Mar 14, 2016
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What these songs share, the pairing of Healy's witty, bratty lyricism with athletic and adventurous musicianship, prove that this band is comfortable moving in all directions at once.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Mar 3, 2016
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West is the rare artist who can turn a cry for attention into something more: a distillation of his artistic output to date that is quintessentially Kanye, whether you like him or not.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Feb 19, 2016
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This is, after all, Animal Collective's attempt at stuffing a decade's worth of changing tastes into 12 disciplined, bite-sized songs. What's most impressive is that they accomplish this feat without ever letting accessibility compromise their individual preferences as artists, and vice versa.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Feb 11, 2016
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The Ghosts of Highway 20 is otherwise characterized by its consistency, but what really sets it apart from Williams's previous album is its sense of emotional balance.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Jan 26, 2016
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The way the lyrics alternate between ambiguous introspection and dark whimsy can also confuse the sense of the album as a whole, but hunting for patterns or for humanity on Blackstar is less the point than enjoying the majesty of David Bowie, even on the verge of his death, sounding this incredibly alive.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Jan 11, 2016
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When it all clicks, it's a perfect pop moment. The worst that can be said of Art Angels is that its maximalist ambitions sometimes overshoot the needs of pop.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Nov 10, 2015
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There's definitely a smart-dumbness to what Shining does here: International Blackjazz Society sounds like Nine Inch Nails circa “The Hand That Feeds,” with an earnest deployment of such dinosaur vulgarities as cowbells, hard-boogie keyboards, and shout-along choruses.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Oct 22, 2015
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Song for song, Revival rivals Carly Rae Jepsen's Emotion for breakout pop album of the year, but if it similarly falls short of greatness, it's due in large part to a lack of originality.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Oct 19, 2015
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Janet has calculatedly played the humble-grateful card countless times in her career, but Unbreakable, a ready-made collection of deep cuts, is one of the first times she’s given a fully convincing performance.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Oct 5, 2015
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If Settle was the thunderstorm, Caracal is the unmistakable scent left in the air afterward.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Sep 28, 2015
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- Posted Sep 24, 2015
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Even on an album full of obvious nods to music of the past, Lucero manages to surprise.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Sep 17, 2015
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Perhaps a bit too reticent for its own good, B'lieve I'm Goin Down still rewards close listening, steadily developing into an album that's as multifaceted and profound as its mysterious creator.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Sep 16, 2015
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The relatively low ratio of octane riffage means many of these songs hinge on Richards's worn, oaky voice. His low, craggly growl suits the rock songs well, and he manages perhaps the tenderest vocal performance of his career on the reggae-infused “Love Overdue.”- Slant Magazine
- Posted Sep 16, 2015
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He's right that the troubadour and his feeble attempt at greatness really are small potatoes in an indifferent universe, but at least his band can still manage to make albums worth a few spins.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Aug 31, 2015
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What makes Poison Season a great album, though, is that it doesn't completely wallow in Bejar's newfound smoking-jacket-and-fine-brandy sophistication—as opposed to the tattered-plaid-shirt-and-fifth-of-Jack wildness of early Destroyer. Rather, refined balladry like "Solace's Bride" coexists comfortably next to upbeat, funky songs like "Midnight Meet the Rain," which sounds like the badass theme song for an '80s cop show.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Aug 24, 2015
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With an uncanny melodic gift that enlivens even the most tired sentiments and a chameleonic ability to seamlessly transition between disparate production styles, Jepsen proves she's worthy of those comparisons [to Taylor Swift and Rihanna].- Slant Magazine
- Posted Aug 20, 2015
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More than simply a joint stopgap for these indie heavyweights, Sing Into My Mouth serves, like the DJ-Kicks and LateNightTales series, as a musical bibliography for curious fans, and a superbly entertaining one at that.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Aug 12, 2015
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Love Is Free feels comparatively tossed off, merely a bridge between Robyn 2.0 and an incarnation of the dance-pop icon we--and she--haven't yet imagined.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Aug 10, 2015
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Yo La Tengo manages to further their transparency and place the focus even more on the material, faking their way through another series of delicately adjusted, quietly exquisite reinterpretations.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Aug 6, 2015
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Call it a low-stakes play, but Another One is a snapshot of an artist who's found his lane and continues to mine it for affecting, melodically spry material.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Jul 29, 2015
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Although Currents is, in many ways, a showcase of difference (from his previous guitar-driven efforts, from some previous influences, even from other recently successful forays into disco-pop such as Daft Punk's Random Access Memories), Parker also toys with repetition as a unifying theme, sonically and lyrically.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Jul 20, 2015
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- Posted Jul 20, 2015
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Isbell's follow-up, Something More Than Free, retains Southeastern's intimate acoustic-based feel and heavyhearted lyrical matter, but it's even more smooth-edged and lacks the emotional gut-punches of its predecessor.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Jul 8, 2015
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- Posted Jul 1, 2015
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D'Angelo may have struck a new gold standard for intellectual R&B, and even recorded a more traditionally cohesive and satisfying album, but Miguel's cocktail of furious angst, pained perplexity, and damaged tenderness is just as relevant, acknowledging the complicated realities of modern sexuality while pushing to expand its horizons.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Jun 26, 2015
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It's never quite a tour de force, but as a union of the Orb's heady roots with their spiritual ascendants' minimalist ethos, the album is a consistently satisfying groove machine, and a worthy entry to the upper ranks of the Orb canon.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Jun 18, 2015
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There may not be many surprises musically on Ten Songs, but it's surprising enough that Adams has let the façade down and finally let us hear his music in its purest form.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Jun 9, 2015
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Occasionally, the more ambitious nature of Everything Is 4 reveals some of Derulo's weaknesses, like his insistence on indulging straight R&B (which feels basic compared to the unique mode of genre-bending he usually works in), but stretching musically also leads to arguably the most exciting moment here, the funk rave-up of album-closer "X2CU."- Slant Magazine
- Posted Jun 2, 2015
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Kozelek veers between wry, pissed-off, and ruminative expression without ever really settling on any of those. While that means Universal Themes never reaches the same highs as Benji, it does allow the listener to become fully immersed inside Kozelek's head, which is an alternately terrifying and hilarious place to be.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Jun 1, 2015
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His winking in-jokes and one-liners might have gotten the Internet's attention, but Ratchet wins you over when it reveals that this smart-aleck's got a beating heart too.- Slant Magazine
- Posted May 20, 2015
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Matsson might be offering another round of familiar sounds on Dark Bird Is Home, however impeccably arranged and played. The darkness and ambivalence that haunt its shadows, however, give the album depth and longevity well beyond its something-for-everyone first impression.- Slant Magazine
- Posted May 12, 2015
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Why Make Sense? is the electronic fivesome's characteristically polished, generously tuneful tribute to wearing your heart on your sleeve.- Slant Magazine
- Posted May 11, 2015
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The Magic Whip isn't a triumphant return of a Britpop champion; instead, it's a mature, measured document from a band that's never rested on its laurels.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Apr 27, 2015
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The focus is therefore narrower, and while Stetson doesn't reach the same heights of grandiose menace as on his previous album, the results are roundly impressive, rooted to the continuing spectacle of two discrete approaches melting into one another, each disrupting and perverting the effect of the other.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Apr 23, 2015
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[Brittany Howard's] performance only confirms that she's the kind of pop vocal talent that only comes along a few times in a generation, while Sound & Color as a whole is proof that Alabama Shakes have got the chops to be a lot more than Muscle Shoals revivalists.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Apr 20, 2015
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I Don't Like Shit may be a master class in ominous mood-setting and a cutting excavation of a wounded psyche, but it also reveals that Earl is at his best when he engages the outside world rather than getting mired in his own emotional claustrophobia.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Apr 10, 2015
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For an album that deals in low stakes, Sometimes I Sit and Think finds Barnett hitting some incredible highs. Without sounding labored, she creates an impeccably honest world rife with humor, self-deprecation, and heartbreak.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Mar 20, 2015
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Tidy this album isn't, but like There's a Riot Goin' On or the distended jams of One Nation Under a Groove, the uncompromising messiness is the point. The focused and fervent anger, politics, cosmic knowledge, and above all unshakable self-doubt is the point too.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Mar 19, 2015
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If The Age of Adz harnessed Stevens's limpid melodies to crashing electronica, Carrie & Lowell finds that electronic experimentation sublimated, emerging primarily in the album's timing, which, like a click track, is more precise and mechanical than anything on Stevens's purely folk efforts.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Mar 17, 2015
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The taut and engaging first half of Down to Believing juxtaposes formidable country-rock like "I Lost My Crystal Ball" and the garage-rock-at-heart "Tear Me Apart" against more poised and controlled expressions of emotional unrest.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Mar 17, 2015
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- Posted Mar 3, 2015
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The pair largely eschews such so-called guffaws on their sophomore effort, another eternity, but they display a willingness to more intrepidly embrace the pop underpinnings of Shrines.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Mar 2, 2015
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Rebel Heart is too long, too unnecessarily fussed over, to join the ranks of Like a Prayer, Erotica, and Ray of Light, but tucked inside this lumbering mass of songs are 10 to 12 tracks that would, under any other circumstances, make for Madonna's best album in at least a decade.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Feb 26, 2015
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He's a storyteller with a literary knack for using detail and narrative to draw complex, relatable characters, and his storytelling finesse has never been more evident than it is here.- Slant Magazine
- Posted Feb 24, 2015
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