Category: Reviews
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Lil Yachty Dumps Second Album of 2018
Already his 3rd release since 2017, Lil Yachty improves from this year’s other LP, but still struggles with his weaknesses. Much of Nuthin’ 2 Prove is bogged by bland production and empty vocals. “We Outta Here” and “I’m the Mac” don’t have any rhythm changes: it’s just the same boring trap beat over and over.…
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Ella Mai Slips But Soothes on Full-Length Debut
After a trio of EPs, Ella Mai’s self-titled first full-length is a flawed but elegant record for the British R&B singer. The album opens up Mai’s inner psyche, as she presents her name like an acronym with each letter representing a feeling. Starting with “E” for “emotion” and closing on “I” for “inner”, the definitions…
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Mount Eerie brings hits to the stage in live album
Over the last couple of years, Mount Eerie has released two of the most heart-rending albums of the decade–a grief-stricken collection of ballads entitled A Crow Looked at Me, and it’s slightly more hopeful, yet still powerfully impactful Now Only. Detail by painful detail, Crow outlines the immediate backlash that Phil Elverum, the singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist behind…
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Hozier Returns With New EP
He’s back. That smooth blues-singing, bearded Irish man we all know as Hozier. His newly released EP Nina Cried Power is the first we’ve heard from him in four years since his last album, and with just four songs, it’s got a lot to say. The first track, “Nina Cried Power”, flies you through a…
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Straight Outta Compton Celebrates 30 years
This past August, NWA’s legendary album celebrated its 30th anniversary. For the most part, rap music in the mid ‘80s was simply innocent, dancy, and fun. Run DMC rapped about how king-like they were, Grandmaster Flash preached his “Message”, it was a simple genre anyone could enjoy. Then a bunch a dudes from the hood…
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Vans Warped Tour 2018 Review
The Final Cross Country Vans Warped Tour has come to an eventful close. Much like every other outdoor concert I’ve ever been to in Florida weather, it rained quite a bit at Warped Tour in Jacksonville, but luckily not until it was more than halfway through the day. With a total of 7 stages and…
