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On average, this publication grades 6.1 points lower than other critics.
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Average Music review score: 67
Highest review score: | Magic | |
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Lowest review score: | Know Your Enemy |
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There's a heart beating in Burial’s out-of-body sound, and Rival Dealer plays like an ashy memorial to a beat that lives on.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Dec 17, 2013
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Expand[s] her folk-based sound, mixing Radiohead-style atmospherics, Seventies pop melodies and even a splash of soul. [Jul - Aug 2022, p.120]- Rolling Stone
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It’s Almost Dry, Pusha’s fourth solo album, adds levity to his troubled-conscious colloquies, presenting a well-balanced portrait of a complex man with some serious burdens on his heart.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Apr 21, 2022
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- Posted May 12, 2011
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- Posted Mar 28, 2012
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Nobody in Nashville has a truer, fuller tenor than Dunn; he excels here, amid vivid arrangements that emphasize the band's roots.- Rolling Stone
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For all its audacity and lyrical cleverness, Search is an album with insecurities as remarkable as its confidence, with desperate measures justified by sincerity of purpose.- Rolling Stone
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Her music embodies a dyed-in-the-wool timelessness that can't be counterfeited.- Rolling Stone
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One of the more creative and accomplished records you'll hear this year. [19 Aug 2004, p.118]- Rolling Stone
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On the group's fourth proper album, a mightier Mouse refine their weirdness and become a pop band while grasping at dark truths that pop ordinarily denies.- Rolling Stone
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A new, six-disc anniversary box set offers a holistic look at the album with demos, a completely remixed version of the record, and a live recording.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Nov 1, 2019
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Lykke Li is a different kind of Swedish wunderkind: an ingenious oddball.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Mar 1, 2011
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No youngsters this side of Arcade Fire (who record for the Chunk's Merge Records) articulate ambivalence with such skill or heart. Few even try.- Rolling Stone
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Kaplan and Hubley sing their most confessional, intimate lyrics ever, over whispery guitars, brushed percussion, vibes and organ drones. It's a spell of blissful, psychedelic make-out music... these songs are great - heartfelt, rugged, melodically sumptuous enough to keep unfolding after dozens of spins, full of folk-rock flesh and blood.- Rolling Stone
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His second album will thrill anyone who loves hearing a great writer in any genre do not-nice things to the English language.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Dec 21, 2012
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West is the producer Common has been waiting for all of his career: He makes Common both catchier and edgier at the same time.- Rolling Stone
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Laurel Hell can feel, at first, like an impenetrable record, full of guarded gloss and pop production that feels more like cold caution than anthemic summoning. That’s exactly Mitski’s point. ... More often than not, the songs about personal turmoil double as self-conscious career commentary.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Feb 3, 2022
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McBryde’s second major-label release, Never Will, is just as daring and deep, sometimes deceptively so [as Girl Going Nowhere].- Rolling Stone
- Posted Apr 3, 2020
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You could argue that the Truckers should have revved up this Skynyrd side more often. But instead they let the songwriting speak for itself, and it sings loud and clear.- Rolling Stone
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Mainly, though, The Hunter demonstrates how contemporary radio rock can still be made with imagination, precision and a majestic sense of force.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Sep 27, 2011
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A wonderful little record that never lets up, piling on unassumingly buzzy fun until you start realizing you might be in the presence of a true power-pop monument.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Aug 17, 2018
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Todd Snider decided to quit his high school football team during his first mushroom trip; years later, he got conned by someone impersonating a NASCAR driver and found himself fronting a country cover band after a drunk woman knocked the original singer on his ass. It's all there on The Storyteller, the populist folkie's career-spanning concert LP.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Feb 1, 2011
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It's a moment that feels like an emotional explosion – and it sums up everything great about Wild Flag.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Sep 12, 2011
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She tears the form down to its roots -- acoustic guitars, touches of old gospel and blues, and a gorgeously bummed, torchlit ambience.- Rolling Stone
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Scattered about this engaging, enigmatic disc is a bit of Dusty in Memphis, a touch of Bobbie Gentry's swamp-country persona, a hint of Prince's instinct for making voices and rhythms sound positively libidinous, and a whole lot of Shelby Lynne.- Rolling Stone
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For all Beck lifts from the Seventies, the album never sounds like a period piece; there's always something extra in the mix, stray elements that are both goofy and strangely apropos.- Rolling Stone
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What can at times sound facile in its un-coded repugnance deepens, on repeated listens, into both sophisticated political statement and haunting music.- Rolling Stone
- Posted May 12, 2016
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The problem with You Could Have It So Much Better is, as with so many second albums, consistency.- Rolling Stone
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All over their superbly funny second album, Protomartyr chase the post-punk guitar buzz of classic American bands like the Dream Syndicate, while also evoking raincoat-clad Brits like the Wedding Present.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Apr 17, 2014
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This two-disc set tells the story of that sound ["The Minneapolis sound"], from the proto-disco Seventies to the synthed-up Eighties.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Jan 3, 2014
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Hot Chip have always made songs that slip between the erotic and and neurotic, but this time out there’s another level, as the tracks slip sideways to comment on our upside down world. From the gospel preaching about peace on the opener, “Melody of Love,” to the dark images of dancing in circles “like we’re dead” in the closer, “No God,” these songs combine difficult thoughts and easy pleasures. Complicated music for strange days and nights.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Jun 21, 2019
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What lifts God's Favorite Customer beyond homage is Tillman's slicing, free-associative candor as he examines the cost in sanity and constancy of his craft and touring life.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Jun 1, 2018
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Digs into childhood trauma with all the acoustic verve and wit you expect from this guy.- Rolling Stone
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Her third LP, cut with bass-minded partner Nate Brenner, suggests an innovator in for the long haul.- Rolling Stone
- Posted May 6, 2014
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Luminaries such as Emmylou Harris, Gillian Welch and Dolly Parton also make appearances -- but it's always clear who's sitting on the throne.- Rolling Stone
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This teaming of a gifted poet and bruising metalheads is like Lou Reed and Metallica's Lulu--but about half as long, and about twice as heavy.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Oct 30, 2014
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Royal Headache's execution is so straightforwardly 1977 that it almost teeters on generic garage-rock pastiche. The saving grace is this album's undeniable heart and soul.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Sep 22, 2015
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The 1975 take on that overwhelming anxiety with nerve and aplomb, and the result combines the fist-raising inspired by anthems with the gut-punch provided by precisely described longing.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Dec 4, 2018
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Strange’s undeniable talent and versatility have resulted in one of 2022’s most audacious albums, one that whirls through ideas while exploding preconceptions.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Jun 16, 2022
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The Smile are back with Wall of Eyes, a lavishly gorgeous second LP. No one is going to convene a Deep Listening Consortium to unpack its meaning, and that’s part of the appeal. This music drifts, and we drift with it.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Jan 23, 2024
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A great deal of the material here was covered on 2009's Live in London, but it's well worth the price to hear backup singer Sharon Robinson's exquisite take on "Alexandra Leaving," Cohen's hilariously self-referential "Going Home" and a finale where he covers "Save the Last Dance for Me."- Rolling Stone
- Posted Jan 5, 2015
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- Posted Feb 15, 2018
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Written partly during lockdown, the record features some of the least-annoying songs about the pandemic recorded since the initial outbreak in 2019. And that’s heavy praise, considering some of the truly treacle-shellacked tracks that oozed into the zeitgeist last year.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Jan 11, 2021
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Where a song like “Dimeback” felt like dream pop backwash, the 12 tracks here draw endless comparisons. In “Rylee & I” alone he evokes the mangled production of Bon Iver’s 22, A Million; the gauzy seduction of Jai Paul’s demos; the attention to space in Arthur Russell’s World of Echo; and the everyman sensitivity of John Mayer. That Mk.gee can bring to mind such varied artists is a testament to his ingenuity.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Feb 20, 2024
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The music's urgent, live-in-the-studio feel pairs well with Tweedy's lyrics, which seem more direct and compact than they have in a while.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Jul 24, 2015
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Forget Frank Lucas: The real black superhero here is Jay, and with American Gangster, Gray-Hova is back in black.- Rolling Stone
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Her EP is a captivating flirtation with the Latin music world. Selena en español is a revelation worth revisiting on a full-length project.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Mar 15, 2021
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On Obviously, they’re still oddballs, but in the best way. At a moment when pop strives for lo-fi, solitary-world intimacy, the jazz-pop-whatever band refuse to think small. Fully living up to the water imagery in their name, they’ve made their first truly abashed yacht rock record — with all the hooks, musical interplay, sophistication and sometimes dodgy lyrics of that genre.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Mar 12, 2021
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- Posted Jun 8, 2023
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- Posted Jun 20, 2023
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Cheat Codes is a balm to Gen X hip-hop fans who feel out of step with trap’s spare beats and mumble rap’s hazy flow, proof positive that hip-hop requires a senior circuit.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Aug 12, 2022
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Can be folky or synth-y, full of tunes and lyrics that follow a strange logic toward rich epiphanies. [Feb 2020, p.85]- Rolling Stone
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Although Lekman's voice sometimes sounds like Morrissey doing a Kermit the Frog impression, he revels in strong songwriting and brilliant hooks played on steel drums, funky horns and hip-hop bells.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Feb 16, 2017
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Reborn as Palaceer Lazaro in Shabazz Palaces, the rapper still waxes poetic with the old boho bounce as he lounges in the club or decries the evils of American culture.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Aug 15, 2011
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Hive Mind, the group’s 4th LP, is its most polished, full of tranquil, yearning Quiet Storm and light-footed, live-band funk.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Jul 20, 2018
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Unreasonable Behavior is a dark techno melange that wriggles free of categorization... Garnier exploits the stylistic atomization of electronica, bringing together a whole palette of sounds to evoke one very specific thing: dread.- Rolling Stone
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The Coen brothers, together with producer T Bone Burnett, have assembled a collection of folk, bluegrass, gospel and hobo country so true to the music's down-home, egalitarian roots that it's hard to distinguish the old tracks from the new and the folk heroes from screen actors.- Rolling Stone
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El Último Tour Del Mundo isn’t by any means a repudiation of the genres that have made Bad Bunny a star; if anything, it’s proof of how far they can stretch.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Dec 16, 2020
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Lyrically, he's a seeker, but he could stand to get out more--"My whole world turnin' on the couch," he testifies at one point. But even when Vile's buggin', that couch remains a beautifully chill place to hang.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Sep 21, 2015
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The Whole Love seems like a celebration of that freedom, with songs that roam happily all over the place.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Sep 27, 2011
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Musically, it sticks to the band's established brand of warrior-cry punk metal.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Jan 21, 2014
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- Posted Jun 6, 2023
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The group's first full-length album flies by in a boisterous, intoxicating rush, 24 minutes of saxophone-laced noise and radical slogans.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Jun 2, 2015
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Made on impulse, as a much-needed break during other studio work, Blue and Lonesome is a monument to muscle memory. Solos are brief and tight, evoking the honed-punch effect of the original recordings.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Dec 2, 2016
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The muddiness of the recording functions as a unifying effect, although sometimes you wish the murk would clear a bit, because the music makes you want to push up front and hear what’s happening.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Oct 3, 2019
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They're more radiant than ever on their third disc, particularly on songs like "Zebra," with background chorales swooping over stately guitar plucking.- Rolling Stone
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This impressive follow-up sounds remarkably similar -- it's just packaged more pretentiously.- Rolling Stone
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Well, the end of all things must've been pretty bitchin', because the follow-up is pure heaven.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Apr 12, 2011
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A start-to-finish rush of invigorating riffs and pointed narratives that heightens with repeated exposure.- Rolling Stone
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Brad Paisley's thematic 10th album embraces all of what country music is today--its soul, its vivid storytelling, and, yes, its genre cliches.- Rolling Stone
- Posted May 23, 2011
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Despite Poses' multiple producers, there are more clean, clever ideas of arrangement here than on Wainwright's cluttered debut.- Rolling Stone
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A few of the honky-tonk touches -- such as the corny country crooning on "My Baby's Gone" -- feel like gimmicks. But Sparxxx's lyrics are no shtick.- Rolling Stone
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Now comes the sequel, which plays down Guthrie's playful leer in favor of his snarl.- Rolling Stone
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Other tracks, like the kinetic breakbeat jam "A Cidade," by DJ Dolores with Gogol Bordello's Eugene Hutz, take the Tropicália spirit into the 21st century, where it sounds perfectly at home.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Jul 27, 2011
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The stylistic mix recalls territory she has explored before, notably in Robert Plant's revived Band of Joy project in 2010. But it's never felt so much like personal vernacular.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Oct 15, 2015
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It’s an album full of dressed-down avant-pop with D.I.Y. immediacy and intimacy that can still hold its own amid Top 40 maximalists like Ariana Grande and Halsey. Eilish’s sound is hyper-modern, but still feels classic.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Mar 29, 2019
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The set radiates playfulness and pleasure – the opener "Arisen My Senses" is a breathless barrage of abstract beats and pop timbres, a musical multiple orgasm. But Utopia's no more "pop" than Vulnicura, and not all shiny, happy fantasias.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Nov 27, 2017
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It’s the first Wilco set since the ‘00s to use an outside producer, and it shows, in the best possible way.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Sep 28, 2023
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His new one, easily his headiest, is a concept LP built around Chicago's Robert Taylor Homes, a famously mismanaged housing project destroyed 10 years ago.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Oct 6, 2017
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There will be naysayers among the band's extreme, tatted legions. But Crack the Skye is an awesome display.- Rolling Stone
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Saves the World isn’t self-aware so much as frighteningly emotionally intelligent. The sensitive feelers that populate the group’s sadsack pop tales are sharp analyzers of the behavior around them, as quick to deftly psychoanalyze (see the devastating second verse of “Taken”) as they are to simply point the finger at themselves.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Sep 6, 2019
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Taken as a whole, Anarchist Gospel is a powerful statement from a singer-songwriter poised to become one of the year’s most vital voices in roots music.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Feb 1, 2023
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Monáe holds it together through sheer force of freakadelic will and a radical feminist's sense of self-exploration.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Sep 10, 2013
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This meaty masterpiece is the debut of an 11-piece troupe co-led by guitarist Derek Trucks and his wife, singer-guitarist Susan Tedeschi. Revelator is also a turning point in Trucks' odyssey, since adolescence, toward a deep soul laced with Indo-slide ecstasy.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Jun 10, 2011
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- Posted Jul 17, 2012
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Yet for all his demon-steed drive, Homme's a versatile guy--he coos as persuasively as he howls, and few can rain down metal decay with as much nuance and craft.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Jun 4, 2013
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The sound conjures the Seventies singer-songwriter heyday, and McKenna's storytelling is indelible.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Aug 10, 2016
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In Conflict is a pop treasure that's also a stirring, personal work of art.- Rolling Stone
- Posted May 27, 2014
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Dev Hynes' work--populist, experimental, healing, agitating, straightforward, multi-layered--demonstrates this unfailingly. Prince's radical pop spirit lives on in many artists. But none are channeling it more fully, or artfully.- Rolling Stone
- Posted Jun 28, 2016
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- Posted Mar 25, 2014
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Powerful, beautiful, sensual and activist, this is the record Prince keeps trying to make.- Rolling Stone
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Red Devil Dawn is as intricate and bewitching as the work of Tom Waits or the Tindersticks.- Rolling Stone
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