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Category Archives: Review
Cool Calm Pete: demolition
My beloved Cool Calm Pete is back, and I took five months to write about it. It’s a strange and beautiful album that get’s better with every listen.
Lyrical Wax: 2014 Forest Hills Drive
Brilliant beautiful, reaching just beyond its grasp, it might be J. Cole’s defining album.
Gordon Koang Unity
A testament of hope.
Dispatches right from the edge: Rough and Rowdy Ways and Blonde on the Tracks
Two releases offering a distinct consolation for the end times.
Briggs Always Was
Briggs returns with an assured, diverse and strangely apolitical EP
Orville Peck: Show Pony
The mysterious theatrical cowboy’s delightful new EP.
Taylor Swift Folklore
It’s the details.
Jay Electronica: A Written Testimony
An album with such a jarring disjuncture between its aesthetics and its politics I have to deal with them completely separately.
Iso-Listens: Leon Bridges, Good Thing
Brief chronicles of the albums getting us through lockdown