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Music Yesterday 10:37 am
The Lamentations of Mount Eerie and David Byrne
Mount Eerie’s Now Only and David Byrne’s American Utopia both try to find meaning in a world of loss and death.
Bijan Stephen
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Arts and Entertainment March 22, 2018
Moby’s Muzak
His new album, Everything Was Beautiful, and Nothing Hurt, sounds teleported directly from 1999.
Bijan Stephen
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Music March 8, 2018
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Music February 15, 2018
The alt-R&B of Rhye
Despite all of the sex baked into Blood, the album is striking for the sense of solitude that lurks beneath its surface.
Bijan Stephen
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January 30, 2018
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Media January 17, 2018
What ‘The Awl’ Gave Us
The Awl showed many of us that diving into the weird and marginal could be fun and meaningful—and still produce great writing.
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Music December 15, 2017
Lil Peep’s Optimist Love Songs
Gustav Åhr was emo-rap’s most visible representative and the genre’s most mainstream success, but what set his music apart was not its despair but its deep sense of hope.
Bijan Stephen
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November 17, 2017
Shamir’s Reinvention
On Revelations, he trades the glitz and brashness of his early work for a more ruminative and uncertain sound.
Bijan Stephen