Tag: review
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The Maine are five albums in now and they’re still living up to the title of their first: Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop. And while each of their albums has a different vibe, they still sound like The Maine we heard on their debut. How many bands today can you say that about, five albums and…
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“Carmen” is French artist Stromae’s latest single from his excellent album Racine carrée. It is a “tribute” to Twitter and our consumption of tweets. (He even has a crazy blue Twitter bird following him around throughout the video.)
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Wale’s new album, The Album About Nothing, is released today, “The White Shoes” its first single. And it’s quite the song. Not only does Wale deliver his primo rap, which never fails to flow beautifully, he actually sings on this one. And it turns out he can sing. Better than Kanye West, in fact. Not…
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I’m not a huge fan of instrumental music. I can listen to it now and again but after a while it gets on my nerves. For me, the voice is the greatest of all instruments. That’s why I can listen to music in foreign languages that I don’t know — I can still appreciate a…
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One of the many things I love about Florence is her ability to sound both melancholic and hopeful at the same time. With most artists, they just fall into a gray area if they attempt to capture both ends of the happiness/depression scale at the same time. But Florence doesn’t fall into that grey area.…
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One of the things that made the blogosphere fall in love with Tinashe was undoubtedly that she released her music for free in the form of the album-length mixtapes Black Water, In Case We Die and Reverie. Of course, her talent is what made these mixtapes stick. So many people wouldn’t have been downloading them…
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Natalie Prass is a singer/songwriter based out of Nashville who used to sing backing vocals for Jenny Lewis. Her album has already received heaps of praise from TIME, Pitchfork, Q and The Guardian, and that’s actually how I came to discover it. I read a few positive reviews and then I had to check it…
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“I no longer need to hide,” sings Yael Naim on “Dream In My Head,” the lead single from her fantastic new album, Older, which is released today. Her music is the sort of artsy pop you’re either really good at or you fall flat on your face.
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Well, naturally, since this is 2015, Kelly Clarkson’s seventh album, Piece By Piece, opens with, what else, the first single, “Heartbeat Song.” (I realize I’ve just used more commas than any sentence should ever have, but it was fun. You should try it sometime! You might lighten up enough to enjoy this album!) I’m slightly…
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The Austin, Texas-based folk duo The Wind + The Wave are Dwight “The Wind” Baker and Patricia “The Wave” Lynn. They met in 2009 when Dwight’s wife forced him to stop hiding in the studio and get out of the house, prompting him to go check out a friend’s band. And Patty’s last band happened…
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If you live in the UK then you probably already have an opinion about Clare Maguire. He debut album, Light After Dark, received very mixed reviews when it came out in 2011. Critics seemed to love it or hate it. And, of course, there were some who were wishy washy, publishing reviews that felt as…
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Indiana, aka Lauren Henson, is a 27-year-old singer/songwriter hailing from Nottingham. The reason she goes by Indiana? Her father, who passed when she was 17, was a big fan of Indiana Jones. Although she’s hardly on the tip of everybody’s tongues here in the States, last year Indiana had a top 20 hit in the…
