Rowdy UK postpunk band Black Country, New Road dropped their eagerly awaited debut album on Friday.
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Park Hye Jin’s house music transforms your room into an emotive, prismatic dance floor
South Korean producer Park Hye Jin makes evocative house music for late nights. On her new EP, How Can I (Ninja Tune), her vocal delivery and production are poised and searing, building on the template of her 2018 debut, If U Want It. On the EP’s first track, “Like This,” she accompanies a swell of […]
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Julianna Barwick builds a paradise of her own design with Healing Is a Miracle
While wounds can be stitched and broken bones may mend, other types of injuries never fully heal; perhaps they linger as phantom pain or burrow deep into the brain’s pathways. It’s these imperceptible traumas—and the impossibility of recovery—that consume Julianna Barwick on her new fourth solo album, Healing Is a Miracle. The Los Angeles-based composer […]
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Sampa the Great makes uplifting spiritual soul on The Return
If you’re looking for an album to give you courage as you peer out at the apocalypse from behind your living-room blinds, you could do worse than Sampa the Great’s The Return (Ninja Tune). The Zambia-born, Australia-based artist released this sprawling, languid record last September, and it’s full of 90s beats, heart-on-the-dashiki rapping, and such […]
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Keeping the beat
Chicago’s beat scene has to do without the attention the city’s rappers get, but it’s a vital incubator for adventurous, ambitious instrumental hip-hop.
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Kelis keeps stirring the pot 15 years on
Kelis didn’t become the star she should have 15 years ago, but she’s still one of modern R&B’s most consistently inventive artists.
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The Pixies’ deflating Indie Cindy and 15 more record reviews
Future’s conscience-stricken coke rap and 15 more reviews of recent releases
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Beck’s half-awake Morning Phase and 15 more record reviews
Ten Reader writers review 16 records, including Angel Olsen’s otherworldly folk, and more.
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Earl Sweatshirt’s humane, heartbreaking Doris and 14 more record reviews
Earl Sweatshirt’s humane, heartbreaking Doris and 14 more record reviews
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Meet Leviathan, the local visual-design group behind Amon Tobin’s stage show
An introduction to the Chicago visual production studio that helped create the innovative and awe-inspiring stage setup for renowned DJ and producer Amon Tobin
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Chicago Motion Graphics Festival
The Chicago Motion Graphics Festival showcases technological art with screenings, performances, workshops and parties, Sept Wednesday-Sunday at multiple venues.