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Bijan Stephen is a music critic for The Nation . He lives in New York and his other work has appeared in The New Yorker , The New Republic , Esquire , and elsewhere.
Two distinct artists defined the sound of this summer.
Over a decade since its debut, the band that soundtracked the Great Recession returns with one of its most ambitious albums.
His memoir is an affecting chronicle of both hope and despair in the American South.
SOPHIE’s Oil of Every Pearl’s Un-Insides and Blood Orange’s Negro Swan capture two high-wire acts of musical reinvention.
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July 19, 2018
The genres that West and Drake once defined are now the domain of a new generation of musicians.
May 3, 2018
His new album, Everything Was Beautiful, and Nothing Hurt , sounds teleported directly from 1999.
Mount Eerie’s Now Only and David Byrne’s American Utopia both try to find meaning in a world of loss and death.
MGMT and Poliça’s new albums offer songs of solace and alarm.
Despite all of the sex baked into Blood , the album is striking for the sense of solitude that lurks beneath its surface.
January 30, 2018
The exhilarating freedom and daring of Ephorize .
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