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The Atlanta-based rapper’s self-titled album bridges the silly and the deadly serious with fresh stylistic flair.

On her second album, the Oregon singer-songwriter crafts patient, detailed songs in the borderlands between modernity and nature.

With an intoxicating mix of punk, grindcore, death metal, and math rock, the Nashville quartet channels both personal rage and horror movie camp to condemn corrupt systems of power.

Phil Elverum’s first Mount Eerie album in five years feels like a culmination of his work over the past 25 years, making room for all his earlier selves and sounds.

The British Gambian rapper chronicles his cellblock daydreams on family, freedom, and feeling alien in the UK while hinting at a new blueprint for pan-African pop.

The Texas rapper’s new album presents itself as a moment of mid-career reflection but feels more like a facsimile of his past work.

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