Category: Music

Kanye: The Life of Pablo Reviews

Perhaps it makes most sense to analyze it in the context of Yeezy’s artistry: My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (2010) and Yeezus are reaches, exemplars of a bravado unparalleled by Kanye’s contemporaries; The Life of Pablo is a revision.

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On Object and Actor

Questioning a binary understanding of women as either object or actor, Her portrays women as both.

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Death Grips “Hot Head” Track Review

“Hot Head” is not only an assertion of power but also an investigation into how power works.

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Grimes Engineers a Pop Star

In 2012, Grimes proclaimed that she was sick of her own voice.

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Metal Transcendence

Calling an album “transcendent” is like saying a book is “interesting.”

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Folk from Home

A profile of disabled folk singer, JD Weaver.

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Z A C H C O H E N & HIS DEAD PETZ

Imagining life in college through Miley’s wild career changes.

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Hallucinogen-ic

R&B is experiencing a renaissance.

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Take Me to Chvrch

The moment I first lent my ears to a band on stage, I fell deeply in love. Live music has always been my route to something more, supplying me with a sense of rapture a sermon or a nature walk could never quite compare to.

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Have You in My Wilderness

Julia Holter’s music has always suggested a crossroads between what is accessible and alienating; what is pop and what is confident, modern composition. In Have You in My Wilderness, she has sought to directly accommodate both styles, and to move away from the aural and thematic structures that characterized much of her earlier albums.

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Discover Meekly

At this point, it’s quite possible that my computer has better taste in music than I do. Every week it presents me with a wonderfully diverse playlist, everything from unfamiliar artists to classic tracks from before I was born to deep cuts from bands I already like.

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Suicide Music

A teenage girl is found dead in her bedroom. The culprit? Emo, a death-obsessed youth subculture. But while some teens claim emo romanticizes mental illness, others call it therapy.

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