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- IAN SWEET
Show Me How You Disappear
Jilian Medford’s third album is bigger, brighter, cleaner, and more ambitious. Even when she’s hollering, she sounds dwarfed, standing vulnerable but unafraid amid towering emotions.
- Adrian Younge
The American Negro
The multi-instrumentalist and composer’s concept album about Black existence cites everything while saying nothing. The record collapses under its own inertia.
- FAUZIA
flashes in time
Even on this brief EP, the London producer’s music is becoming more confident and idiosyncratic, moving beyond familiar club contexts in search of points unknown.
- Eve Adams
Metal Bird
Clearing the lo-fi haze of her previous work, the Los Angeles-based songwriter’s third album reveals astral Americana hymns that hover somewhere between the dirt and the stars.
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