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CultureJune 17, 2020
Charli XCX’s Experiment In Radical Transparency
During the first months of quarantine, she crafted an album in real time—and, in the process, celebrated how online connection changed the way we live and create.
Olivia Horn
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CultureApril 13, 2020
Waxahatchee’s ‘Saint Cloud’ Is a Modern Country Folk Opus
The singer’s latest album, which celebrates recovery and the comforts of home, is one of the year’s best.
Olivia Horn
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CultureSeptember 18, 2019
The Business of Being Taylor Swift
Her latest album, Lover, has been heralded as a return to form. It also presents an opportunity to understand the pop star’s many contradictions.
Olivia Horn
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MusicJune 4, 2019
There’s No Band Quite Like Big Thief
Wrapped into its new album U.F.O.F.’s delicate folds are fragility and resilience, love and trauma, nature and ether, enclosure and space, light and dark.
Olivia Horn
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MusicApril 1, 2019
The Uncommon Grace of SASAMI
The “emotionally huge” rock music of Sasami Ashworth lands like a gut punch on her debut album.
Olivia Horn
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MusicFebruary 18, 2019
Folk Music That Bends Time and Space
The songs on Jessica Pratt’s new album Quiet Signs seem to exist in a tranquil place just outside reality.
Olivia Horn
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MusicNovember 8, 2018
You Need to Know About boygenius
A new indie rock supergroup sums up the best of the genre’s recent women-led wave.
Olivia Horn