
2020 in Music
Between the week-long disassociating spells and doom scrolling through the slow moving apocalypse, these albums acted as an anchor. Continue reading 2020 in Music
Between the week-long disassociating spells and doom scrolling through the slow moving apocalypse, these albums acted as an anchor. Continue reading 2020 in Music
Bitching about fame is commonplace in popular music, and bitching about a musician’s bitching is just as recurrent a talking point as well. Continue reading Committed Distancing: On Car Seat Headrest’s ‘Making a Door Less Open’ and Drake’s ‘Dark Lane Demo Tapes’
If anyone were to ask you for either a time capsule of rap music in 2016, or an embryonic example of the seedlings of what’s become one of hip-hop’s equally richest and bewildering creative eras yet, you’d simply have to present them the 2016 XXL Freshman Cypher… Continue reading “Lil Uzi Vert, to Be Exact”: On Eternal Atake/Lil Uzi Vs. The World 2
Dan Deacon – in his lyrics, interviews and in the goofball soapbox aspect of his live performances – is loose-tongued and lucid about the headspace which produced his fifth and newest album, Mystic Familiar (2020) Continue reading Album Review: ‘Mystic Familiar’ by Dan Deacon
When it comes to reevaluating posthumous releases from recently passed rappers these past few years, it’s been best to cede a little more slack than usual to the overall integrity of such projects, given the ever-growing porousness of release guidelines. Continue reading Album Review: ‘Circles’ by Mac Miller
As musical boundaries continue to dissolve at such an alarming rate, the albatross of being a “buzzed about” artist hangs heavier with each year, even if we’re only going as far back as 2011-12. Looking back from the last quarter of 2019, certain bands and musicians who dominated the cultural conversation seem frivolous now, and others seem retroactively undeserving of the hand-wringing that may have accompanied their ascents. Continue reading Doubling Down – DIIV’s ‘Deceiver’ and Danny Brown’s ‘uknowhatimsayin¿’