Album Review
By Oliver Heffron
“For her third and first self-released album, Charm, Clairo enlists producer Leon Michels to breathe 70s-tinged elements of jazz and psychedelic soul into her soft-rock core. The results are sweetly saturated and subtly groovy depictions of momentary bliss like daydreams blowing by with the summer wind. Clairo’s intimate, sweetly saturated vocals lead the listener on sentimental strolls through fleeting fantasies wrapped in analog-tape imperfection…”
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"“Twelve years after bursting onto the center stage of hip-hop at the age of sixteen, Southside Chicago’s prodigal son ascends to the sound he was born to create with his magnum opus: Almighty So 2.”
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“On the duo’s first collab project, which plays on Future’s notorious producer tag for Metro Boomin, the veteran MC and trendsetting producer delivers a nearly flawless collection of cinematic trap portraits and auto-tune-drenched lamentations with WE DON’T TRUST YOU—a potent, carefully constructed exhibition of their patented sound’s visceral power and bittersweet melodic appeal…”
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“BabyDrill is locked in. Since bursting onto the scene from obscurity in 2022 with “32 Freestyle,” the Atlanta MC has breathed much-needed life into the city’s rap scene with each new release. Returning less than a year after his breakout project, Babydrill proves he’s not a part of a fleeting moment but a dynamic voice with much more to say, and his new album, ScoreGod, is his best project to date…”
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"Squirrel Flower has kicked the volume up a notch creating a solid rock album with tunes that will stick to you like a piece of gum on your shoe…”
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“In a musical landscape where listenability and mass appeal dominate what rises to the top, the fittingly-titled SCARING THE HOES is a refreshing dose of unrestrained irreverence, talent, and innovation…”
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“In the most surprising musical left turn in recent memory, Lil Yachty delivers an incredible alternative album with Let’s Start Here, working with a talented roster of musicians to blend elements of psychedelic rock, pop, and Jazz in one cohesive project that confronts maturation as something surreal, existential, and uplifting…”
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“The lasting legacy of In My Lifetime Vol. 1 should be that body of work for Jay, laying the blueprint for ascending to the hip-hop crown and never letting go…”
Read Moreby David Williams: “Hold the Girl is a revelation of how therapy influenced Rina Sawayama's life for the better, and sonically traveling through a multitude of different genres, making her one of the most versatile artists in the world today…”
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“In a sense, his latest offering, The Forever Story, serves as a prequel of sorts for the Atlanta rapper, where he showcases his upbringing. JID gives us a peek behind the curtain of his life before we knew him and how that turned him into the man he is today.…”
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“After label drama, fear of the unknown, and self-doubt the trio turned that pressure into diamonds with their third album. MUNA has risen from the ashes like a Phoenix delivering quality pop hits peppered throughout the whole record…”
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