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The classical singer Julia Bullock has released <em>Walking in the Dark</em>, her debut solo album.

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With a bold debut album, Julia Bullock curates an unconventional career

The velvet-voiced soprano with a career on the rise chooses her projects, and the music on her debut solo album, with consummate intention.

December 09, 2022
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  • Tom Huizenga
Natalie Mering — who performs as Weyes Blood — has been known to swing for the fences.

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The personal apocalypse of Weyes Blood's 'And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow'

The singer-songwriter's fifth album is an ecosystem of intimacy, in its power to redeem and to destroy.

November 28, 2022
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  • Meaghan Garvey
GloRilla hardly deviates from her points of emphasis, lyrically, but in energy, she's giving something different at almost every turn.

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  • Music Reviews

GloRilla is finding her voice

Though it feels like a mere sample of what's to come, the Memphis rapper's new EP presents her as a singular talent using her instrument as a megaphone for provocation and inspiration.

November 23, 2022
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  • Lawrence Burney

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  • Music Features

There's still no one like Santigold

On the startlingly direct Spirituals, and in headline-grabbing rebukes of music's trickle-down economy, Santi White is what she's always been: a forward-thinking alternative to pop's here and now.

November 15, 2022
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  • Julianne Escobedo Shepherd
Despite the churlishness, or maybe because of it, Drake sounds, for the first time in a long time, like he's actually enjoying rapping.

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  • Music Reviews

Drake and 21 Savage are sore winners on 'Her Loss'

The duo trades threats and out-of-pocket disses of virtually everyone they've ever encountered on a new album. It's ugly, but it mostly works as a more targeted, focused version of Drake's whole deal.

November 10, 2022
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  • Sam Hockley-Smith
MAVI knows how to move along the bends, and with sharpened writing he's more plainspoken.

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  • Music Reviews

MAVI's clearheaded songs of endurance

The Charlotte rapper's new album, Laughing so Hard, it Hurts, is more direct in thought and intention than his debut, more open and vulnerable, letting his observations guide his insights.

October 25, 2022
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  • Clarissa Brooks
On<em> Blue Rev</em>, the new album from Alvvays, there's an ongoing push and pull between Molly Rankin's sensitive storytelling and the relative cacophony that swells to surround it.

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  • Music Reviews

On 'Blue Rev,' Alvvays finds euphoria in noise

The third album from the Canadian noise pop purveyors feels like a conversation between clarity and cacophony, creating an exhilarating tension.

October 25, 2022
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  • Jacob Ganz
The songs on Taylor Swift's 10th album, <em>Midnights</em>, place the listener in the immediate nowhere of private space, where stories can change in a whisper.

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  • Music Reviews

In the haze of 'Midnights,' Taylor Swift softens into an expanded sound

On Swift's 10th and most challenging album, she and producer Jack Antonoff push her voice in new directions, rethinking the sonic rhetoric of first-person storytelling and shaking off old habits.

October 21, 2022
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  • Ann Powers
Gibbs is so skilled in the booth you have to meet him halfway to extract the penitence and sorrow in the marrow of some of these songs.

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  • Music Reviews

With '$oul $old $eparately,' Freddie Gibbs cashes in on his cachet

Forget what F. Scott Fitzgerald said about American lives and second acts, Gibbs is on his third or fourth. $$$ is a rewarding listen that sometimes labors under the weight of a forced progression.

October 01, 2022
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  • Matthew Ramirez
<em>Cool It Down</em>, the first new record from Yeah Yeah Yeahs in nine years, is a product of fearless evolution.

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  • Music Reviews

Yeah Yeah Yeahs' 'Cool It Down' is an exhilarating yet unhurried return

The band's first new record in nine years confronts environmental ruin and pandemic-era isolation, but ends at a vantage of hope — one that sounds like it took all the intervening time to reach.

September 30, 2022
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  • Stacey Anderson
Kurt Wagner performs with Lambchop in September at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.

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  • Music Features

Lambchop's long and winding road

Kurt Wagner's Nashville collective has always been an expression of absolute possibility. The Bible, his best album in a decade, points that instinct at life's most inescapable truth.

September 28, 2022
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  • Grayson Haver Currin
Following the <em>Frigid Stars LP, </em>slowcore trio Codeine went to Harold Dessau Recording studio in New York City in 1992. Pictured here, left to right: Stephen Immerwahr, Chris Brokaw and John Engle.

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  • Music Reviews

Codeine's lost album 'Dessau' feels like a ghost

Scrapped and shelved until now, Dessau mirrors a particularly fraught moment for the slowcore band.

September 20, 2022
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  • Sarah Hennies
On <em>Hideous Bastard, </em>Sim uses horror tropes in songs about celebrating what makes us monstrous.

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  • Music Reviews

On 'Hideous Bastard,' Oliver Sim mines horror tropes to embrace queer identity

On his debut solo album, Sim — best known as a member of The xx — takes inspiration from horror movie villains on songs that look for humanity in the aspects of our identity that society rejects.

September 17, 2022
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  • Cyrena Touros
The songs on Quinn Christopherson's debut album, <em>Write Your Name In Pink</em>, try to make peace with the hand life has dealt.

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  • Music Reviews

On Quinn Christopherson's debut album, stories of growth emerge in monumental details

On Write Your Name In Pink, the Alaskan singer-songwriter turns a compassionate eye towards his memories, threading together small moments to reveal moving stories about love, addiction and growth.

September 16, 2022
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  • Marissa Lorusso
Each track on Rina Sawayama's <em>Hold The Girl</em> is extremely, outlandishly major, proceeding at an exhausting intensity.

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  • Music Reviews

On 'Hold the Girl,' Rina Sawayama's stadium sound obscures her signature appeal

The pop singer has superstar ambition and a knack for clever genre collisions. But while her new album sometimes matches intensity with innovation, it more often grinds her nuanced story to a paste.

September 16, 2022
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  • Laura Snapes
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