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News Articles: Music Reviews

Ukrainian composer Valentin Silvestrov fled his hometown of Kyiv for Berlin in early 2022.

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  • Music Reviews

What's past is present for Ukrainian composer Valentin Silvestrov

The 86-year-old Kyiv native, living in exile in Berlin, has a new album of symphonic works that explores the idea of reminiscence.

May 10, 2024
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  • Tom Huizenga
<em>Radical Optimism</em> is the latest album from Dua Lipa.

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  • Music Reviews

Dua Lipa's 'Radical Optimism' is loaded with hyper-catchy bangers

The British singer Dua Lipa has become one of the world's biggest pop stars. Now, she's back with Radical Optimism, a sort of concept record about moving through life with a more mature and constructive attitude. But it's also a pretty straightforward collection of grievance-free, hyper-catchy bangers.

May 08, 2024
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By:
  • Stephen Thompson,
  • Reanna Cruz,
  • and 5 more
Mystery manifests on Pratt's albums as the texture of dreams. But <em>Here in the Pitch</em>, her best album, feels completely lucid.

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  • Music Reviews

On 'Here in the Pitch,' Jessica Pratt's pop seduces listeners into a Los Angeles noir

The singer-songwriter's fourth album is her best yet, with crisp, commanding songwriting, shades of '60s baroque pop and melodies that seem to have existed forever.

May 04, 2024
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By:
  • Jenn Pelly
On G Perico's new album, <em>G Slim's Revenge</em>, a certain rap archetype that has faded since its '90s ubiquity appears to be alive and well.

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  • Music Features

Whither the West Coast gangsta?

A familiar rap character, the Cali hustler cruising in a low-rider, has faded in the 21st century. On new albums by G Perico, Mozzy and Gangrene, that figure is alive and well, living in the margins.

April 25, 2024
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By:
  • Sheldon Pearce
<em>The Tortured Poets Department</em> is the latest album from Taylor Swift.

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  • Music Reviews

On 'The Tortured Poets Department,' Taylor Swift spares no one

Taylor Swift dropped an epic new album that spans two hours — and two high-profile breakups. The Tortured Poets Department delves deeply into two of the singer's recent relationships — one with the English actor Joe Alwyn and the other with Matty Healy, who's the lead singer of The 1975. And while Taylor Swift indulges in a few beefs on this record, the target she returns to most often is herself.

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April 22, 2024
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By:
  • Stephen Thompson,
  • Ann Powers,
  • and 4 more
On Taylor Swift's 11th album, <em>The Tortured Poets Department</em>, her artistry is tangled up in the details of her private life and her deployment of celebrity. But Swift's lack of concern about whether these songs speak to and for anyone but herself is audible throughout the album.

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  • Music

Taylor Swift's 'Tortured Poets' is written in blood

With The Tortured Poets Department, the defining pop star of her era has made an album as messy and confrontational as any good girl's work can get.

April 19, 2024
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By:
  • Ann Powers
Metro Boomin and Future perform during 2023 MTV Video Music Awards. The producer and rapper have linked for two sprawling new albums this year, released weeks apart.

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  • Music Features

Why Future trusts Metro Boomin

After a decade ruled by their influence, the buzzy reunion of two hip-hop giants finds one imbued with a startling new power.

April 18, 2024
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  • Sheldon Pearce
Beyoncé's <em>Cowboy Carter</em> has ignited discourse about the place of Black musicians in country music. But it's also evidence of its creator's desire to break genre walls by following her most eccentric impulses.

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  • Music Reviews

Beyoncé's 'Cowboy Carter' is a portrait of the artist getting joyously weird

Cowboy Carter has spurred plenty of discussion for being a groundbreaking country album. But for one critic, it calls to mind a cult favorite '70s psych-rock concept album.

April 11, 2024
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  • Ann Powers

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  • Music

Boots with the spurs: 'Cowboy Carter' and the need for validation

Grab your cowboy hat, and saddle up that horse, because Beyoncé's highly anticipated album, Cowboy Carter is here. So far, the album has spurred praise, criticism, and questions about what the actual goal of this project is and how it fits into the Renaissance trilogy. To get into all of that, Brittany joined NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour to discuss whether this foray into country is an exercise in experimentation or industry validation.

April 09, 2024
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By:
  • Brittany Luse,
  • Corey Antonio Rose,
  • and 8 more
Cellist Maya Beiser has reimagined Terry Riley's pioneering work <em>In C</em>, which helped launch the style of music called minimalism.

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  • Music Reviews

Cellist Maya Beiser's variation on a minimalist manifesto

Armed with just her cello, a looping machine and a pair of percussionists, Beiser crafts a rendition of Terry Riley's pioneering In C that is equally mesmerizing and graceful.

April 05, 2024
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By:
  • Tom Huizenga
"This city has birthed a lot of pioneers, people that are pushing things," Andre 3000 said. "It's cool to be kind of running [expletive] for like the last 30 years."

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  • Music Features

Inhale. Exhale. Now let these scenes from Andre 3000's Atlanta homecoming wash over you

It's been nearly 10 years since Andre and his partner in Atlanta rap act OutKast, Antwan "Big Boi" Patton, headlined a sold-out, three-night stand at Centennial Olympic Park — and two decades since the duo released Speakerboxxx/The Love Below, now the best-selling rap album of all time. 

March 05, 2024
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By:
  • Sonia Murray
Howard's vocal malleability allows her to access a whole spectrum of contradictory emotions and gender expressions.

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  • Music Features

On 'What Now,' Brittany Howard is a virtuoso in pursuit of a flow state

The former Alabama Shakes leader is in total control of her new album's genre-defying odyssey through this thing called life, evoking the mastery of another do-it-all maestro: Prince.

February 09, 2024
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By:
  • Jill Mapes
André 3000's "New Blue Sun Live" tour spent three nights at the Blue Note jazz club in New York.

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  • Music Features

Is André 3000 in his jazz era?

During his residency of the famed Blue Note jazz club in New York, the OutKast-rapper-turned-flutist showed us why New Blue Sun is both less and more than that question.

February 06, 2024
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By:
  • Hank Shteamer

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  • Music Reviews

Can Thom Yorke escape his own voice?

The second album from Radiohead offshoot The Smile is very good. But can its singer ever transcend his role in his revolutionary other band?

January 29, 2024
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By:
  • Grayson Haver Currin
The new album of music by Estonian composer Arvo Pärt is a warm blanket of comfort in troubled times.

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  • Music Reviews

A disciplined plea for peace – and quiet – from composer Arvo Pärt

A new album of music by the 88-year-old Estonian mystic seems to put an arm around you and whisper, "In troubled times, music can help."

November 10, 2023
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  • Tom Huizenga
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