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15Aug

Album of the Month: July 2021

July 2021 wasn’t nearly as prolific of a month for music as May and June, but it still produced some very enjoyable projects. While I found some highly anticipated projects to be disappointing, including Logic’s return mixtape Bobby Tarantino III and the new album, Take The Sadness Out of Saturday Night, from Jack Antonoff’s solo […]

25Jul

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Album of the Month: June 2021

June 2021 was another great month for music, with possibly the most anticipated album of the year— Tyler, the Creator’s CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST—being released to critical acclaim. While the album was certainly among the highlights of the month for me, along with Backxwash’s dark industrial hip-hop on I LIE HERE BURIED WITH […]

15Jun

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Album of the Month: May 2021

May 2021 proved to be a very eventful month for music, with many of the year’s most highly anticipated projects being released, including Olivia Rodrigo’s Sour and Twenty One Pilots’ Scaled and Icy. While much of the music released this month was extremely impressive, such as the lush atmospheric black metal of Panopticon’s …and Again […]

20May

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Album of the Month: April 2021

The month of April featured a couple of fun projects such as The Alchemist’s This Thing of Ours and BROCKHAMPTON’s ROADRUNNER: NEW LIGHT, NEW MACHINE. However, the album I found the most endearing was Kero Kero Bonito’s short-but-sweet Civilisation II. This 3-track mix of glitzy electronics, indie pop, and elements of House is nothing but […]

17Apr

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Album of the Month: March

As another month passes, more albums of 2021 are being released. Notable albums from this month include Armand Hammer and Alchemist’s HARAM, Genesis Owusu’s Smiling with No Teeth, Lana Del Ray’s Chemtrails Over the Country Club, and Ian Sweet’s Show Me How You Disappear just to name a few. However, a much smaller release from […]

16Mar

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Album of the Month: February 2021

In a month full of music headlines (Bobby Shmurda released from prison, Daft Punk retiring, etc.), there was a surprisingly scarce number of show-stopping albums dropped. While Julien Baker’s Little Oblivions is worth checking out, I personally enjoyed Slowthai’s TYRON more for its juxtaposition of bombastic attitude and humbled self-reflection. It’s no secret that Slowthai […]

8Feb

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Album of the Month: January 2021

Like most Januaries, music was slow to release this month. It wasn’t until the end of the month that January 29 saw the release of Madlib’s Sound Ancestors and Weezer’s Ok Human. Both of these albums were very fun and interesting (especially the baroque and Beatles-inspired instrumentation of Ok Human), but behind this bigger releases […]

11Jan

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Album of the Month: December 2020

My selection of Playboi Carti’s Whole Lotta Red as the album of December may surprise, upset, or excite you. This album has proved to be without a doubt one of the most polarizing of the year. Music listeners, and particularly Carti’s fans, seem to be split on whether this album is genius or laughably bad. […]

1Dec

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Album of the Month: November 2020

November was a quiet month of music for me. Personally, nothing quite grabbed my immediate attention or interest like the past months of this year. However, I was particularly moved by Ólafur Arnalds’s new set of tracks that provide a haven of peace and reflection. Having no prior experience with Ólafur’s music, I had no […]

8Nov

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Album of the Month: October 2020

This was a tough decision. October proved to be an exciting month for music with a lot of good releases and previews for future releases. I personally encourage all to listen to the new stellar collection of tracks released by Gorillaz and 21 Savage/Metro Boomin. However, I feel that Adrianne Lenker’s Songs is a project […]