A delayed look at the sleepy melancholy of Mac Miller’s posthumous Circles.
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Fiona Apple: Fetch the Bolt Cutters
The first masterpiece of the decade?
The Strokes: The New Abnormal
At its best The Strokes’ new album allows them to be present in a way they never previously have.
Albums of the decade: Kendrick Lamar — To Pimp a Butterfly
To self plagiarise a little: Pulitzer prize winner Lamar is the greatest lyricist, probably in any genre, of his generation. This mastery is as much about form as it is lyrical content; his phrasing, his use of tone, his skill at exploiting the rhythmic possibilities of any given piece of music are all peerless. In …
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Albums of The Decade: Amara Toure — 1973 – 1980
Ok, so technically, as the title suggests, this isn’t from the last decade. But let’s face it, neither you or I were going to get it until 2015, when the peerless Analog Africa label compiled this mysterious Guinean Salsero’s recorded legacy (outside his work with Senegal’s Star Band De Dakar). A feline cocktail of Afro-Cuban …
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Albums of the Decade: Julia Jacklin — Don’t Let the Kids Win
Most people who’ve played guitar with some application for six months would have the knowledge to write these songs. And most bands with three or four good, sensitive musicians could replicate their warm, clean sound. Except none of them do, because none of them can write as elegantly as Julia Jacklin. Musically, Don’t Let the …
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Dancing to Architecture 