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Braids: Euphoric Recall

You’ll be tempted to turn off Euphoric Recall halfway through the first song. The fifth studio album by Montreal pop experimentalists Braids begins with an inauspicious flashback to Shadow Offering lowlight “Snow Angel”—the same goofy rap cadence, the same stale […]

Jack Harlow: Jackman.

When the cover art for Jackman. dropped, people did not know what to make of Jack Harlow standing there, arms crossed and chest bare. I certainly didn’t. Maybe it’s that Jackman. is as stripped down as the artist: Devoid […]

Smokey Robinson: Gasms

The first thing to know about Smokey Robinson’s Gasms is that it’s a proper album—not a live album, a Christmas album, a standards album, or a celebration of the soul legend’s songbook thronged with younger guests, but […]

Yunè Pinku: Babylon IX EP

Yunè Pinku makes nostalgia-fueled music infused with techno and garage, and airlifted by her gentle, occasionally deadpan vocal melodies, corroborating lyrics like “told you I don’t give a fuck” with a delightful, lilting shrug in her […]