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Apr 4, 2024There are admittedly some palatable textures here, an inevitability given the roster of talent, but so much of it is obfuscated in genre confusion and poor arrangements.
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Apr 4, 2024This is a pretty good Black Keys record that chiefly serves to underline how wedded they are to the fundamentals of their own process.
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Apr 1, 2024What’s frustrating is that Ohio Players boasts some great hooks beneath the mire.
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Apr 5, 2024The duo also make room for classy experimentation, adroitly merging jangly blues with languid hip-hop on Paper Crown. The gaps are filled with a series of sunny Beatlesque numbers that feel lightweight and often rather inane. It’s an all-bases approach that doesn’t feel so much like an identity crisis as a slightly underwhelming diffusion of the band’s once heady magic.