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Iconic in name alone, London Calling is often hailed as one of the first mainstream punk rock albums of all time, after the Sex Pistols (remember when I said that review would come? yeah, it will). However, is this really punk? This sounds much more like classic rock to me. It’s really good rock, and
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It has been a long time since a rap album was on here! I think. I’m too lazy to look. Mick Jenkins was a subject of many a debate between me and my friend Jonah. It was “Is Mick Jenkins good” in rotation with Big Sean vs. Joey Badass. Mick Jenkins, for background is an
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A very strange man with an argument for being the best bass player of all time (certainly up there!), Thundercat’s Drunk is certainly filled with some absolutely insane bass lines throughout the whole album (listen to that shit below, Jesus). It is also filled with some very very strange songs. Even some of the songs
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Coming off my first Arctic Monkeys listen being AM – I didn’t expect much else from the band until I had Mardy Bum come up on the Spotify recommended radio, which was jarring (in the most positive sense of the word) to say the least. Mardy Bum captures that same Strokes-esque fun, groovy, upbeat alternative
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Welcome to the first month’s album tiers, each album categorized and given a one sentence recap. Full blurbs available on the new listens page, and monthly wrap-up playlist on main page under playlists. July’s Playlist. My Favorite New Listen of 2023: The Strokes – Is This It: So fucking good, I can’t even put it into
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Highlighted by two of her most legendary songs in Think and I Say A Little Prayer, Aretha Now is certainly one of her best efforts and probably 1A 1B with I Never Loved a Man The Way I Loved You, though the latter does seem to have a bit more in terms of song themes
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Leon Thomas, who some may know from Victorious, comes through here with a contemporary R&B album that is filled with lots of ballads and “classic” modern R&B sound throughout a lot of this. While I think that Leon has a really nice voice and he is certainly a multi-talented artist, this album was just kinda
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Fusing together elements of R&B, Alternative and Psychedelic Rock, Soul, Funk and Dance music, all while presenting it in with themes of the dystopian future (some of which are hilarious, e.g., The Chrome Shoppe), The Electric Lady (a play off of the Jimi album, of course!) by Janelle Monae is an incredibly ambitious album that
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Soul. Minnie Riperton is a 70’s soul legend who is detailed incredibly well in the book “The Meaning of Soul” (which also touches on a ton of other great soul artists, if interested. A bit dense, but very nice). Tragically, she passed at the age of 31 from breast cancer. In her time, she came
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