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If the people behind an album can’t be bothered to invest more than a few seconds into their artwork, how dare they expect us to spend our time listening to it?
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You play it once and you have to play it again right away, because there’s no way you’ve caught up to everything that’s happening
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A kaleidoscopic multi-genre extravaganza! Intergalactic dance music to throw ass to! Latine country-pop with heaping spoonfuls of rap and fiddle! All this and more in this week's Five Albums.
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Baltimore rapper Brian Ennals doesn't just Go There—he drags you several miles away from There from the back of a motorcycle with a license plate that reads “ACAB.” We spoke to him about some of his favorite songs for the latest edition of Words Matter.
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The idea of the Renaissance critic isn’t entirely new. Black critics have always had to carve out space in an industry dominated by white men.
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Among other things, Okayplayer was a place to learn about music from people who knew more about it than you. My degree may be in communication, but I was trained in musicology by OKP. hearingthings.co/the-afterli…
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Where did hip-hop's obsession with lean come from, and why does it seem to have only grown stronger throughout the 2020s? From DJ Screw to Maxo Kream and Lil Uzi Vert, we charted the winding history of rap's drug of choice.
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Thought-proviking IDM! Post-punk and electropop fusion! A musical memorial to a home lost in the Altadena fires! Shoegaze-jazz-rap for the apocalypse! All this and more on this week's Five Albums
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"I thought I was creating this hero's journey—but then ended up 𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 the hero’s journey.”
Get into Halima's delectable, Afropop-inspired, club R&B debut 𝘚𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘵 𝘛𝘰𝘰𝘵𝘩, released a year ago today—and what she learned from making it:
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The verse had to push against the understood flow of hip-hop’s trajectory, past the ideas of what Southern rap can and can’t be, and ultimately land on what it means to be a Black Southerner altogether
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Somehow, it's been two years since we started Hearing Things. Now we’re commemorating our continued existence with a very special show starring two of our favorite current singer-songwriters.
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For Gen Z’s aspiring music critics, there’s no real standardized pipeline—and not much of an informal one, either
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Hip-hop for the revolution and for the streets! Down to earth country-rock! Conservatory-grade electronic prog! All this and more in this week's edition of Five Albums
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The verse became a measuring stick for all other rappers: Can you get on this level? If not, why are you even doing this?
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The most mind-boggling grooves ever laid down by a septuagenarian and more
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"I think some songwriters tend to write bad songs because they’re trying to be too literary. There’s a weird trend of that in indie music, where they write, like, tone poems, I guess, instead of songs with hooks and stuff."
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A new Erykah Badu album! Gauzy shoegaze mixed with outré Latin trap! Ambient tunes from a Norwegian-Mexican clarinetist and a Swedish electronic producer! Mod revival covers by an ambitious Gen Z guitarist! All this and more in Five Albums
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The concept of “the music critic” has never felt more nebulous
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And two songs that had us wondering: Was the whole thinga dream? hearingthings.co/gen-z-rock-…
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Supergroups making villainous hip-hop and astral ambient jazz! The 11-years-later return of the Alabama Shakes! Improvisational post-punk/pop/emo fusion! AM pop radio joints straight from Montreal! All this and more in this week's Five Albums
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