Tag: album
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Care About Saba’s CARE FOR ME
While his features with Chance the Rapper on “Angels” may have been cheerful, Saba’s new album is anything but. 30 seconds into opening track “BUSY / SIRENS”, he informs the listener “I don’t know how long I had depression”. At first glance, it appears we’re about to get another dose of the “sad rap movement”…
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Let Cardi B in with Invasion of Privacy
After a monumental single, a boatload of features, 20 million Instagram followers, and dropping two mixtapes (what b*tch working as hard as her?), we finally have the long-awaited debut album of Bronx rapper Cardi B. Invasion of Privacy opens with an origin story, as our favorite stripper-turned-rapper boasts about her rags to riches beginning on…
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It’s My Birthday and I’ll Take As Many Photos of Rainbow Kitten Surprise As I Want
The day before my birthday I sent a desperate message to Rainbow Kitten Surprise via Facebook. It read, “Please, it’s my birthday,” and to my surprise, it worked.(Little did I know they had actually been responding to my emails all along, but their responses had ended up in my junk mail.) I checked out a…
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Elvis Can Fix Anything – Even the Holidays
Thanksgiving hass passed, making room for the sea of never-ending Christmas music. As a notorious scrooge, I am not thrilled. Snow is wet, the cold is bitter, and last but most certainly not least: Christmas music. It’s relentless. Insufferable. Unbearable! All apart from the practically flawless Elvis’ Christmas Album. Elvis takes every element of Christmas…
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Nostalgia and Sheryl Crow’s Be Myself
I haven’t listened to a new Sheryl Crow album since 2008, and I haven’t loved a Sheryl Crow album since 2002’s “C’mon C’mon.” I may have ditched Coldplay for Tame Impala, or The All-American Rejects for Car Seat Headrest, but there’s a strange fascination I have with that dusty old album from 2002 that used…
