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Kanye West's My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy Turns 10

Kanye West’s My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy Turns 10

“Refresh the page and restart the memory”

When 2019 gave way to 2020, there were a number of incredibly inane articles getting at the question of “When does a decade begin and end?” That premise basically allowed astrophysicists and other such dorks to argue about record-keeping. Discussed on those terms, the question is meaningless. We don’t come to any real greater understanding of ourselves…

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#Nonetheless' "Thanksgiving," for the @NeubauBerlin label, is dark and enticing techno that lures you in from the jump: Nonetheless' closing track on its debut album is an arpeggiated malediction of a techno track. It's rapidly scaling synth notes suggest something sinister without ever fully showing the listeners.

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Cloud Nothings- "So Right So Clean"

.@CloudNothings' latest dispatch is gnarled, slow-moving punk perfect for a rainy day:

If the weather right outside the closest window to you is currently gray and overcast and rainy and just generally shitty, Cloud Nothings have something for you.

“So Right So Clean,” the group’s third single from the forthcoming Last Building Burning, is one of the slower moving numbers from the Cleveland punk rockers. Dylan Baldi’s voice is just as potently gnarled as ever but now the guitars…

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Top Tracks: Anderson .Paak- "Tints" ft. Kendrick Lamar

.@AndersonPaak and @KendrickLamar work well together on the soulful "Tints" to deliver a warm track about living in the moment:

Summer’s not over. Not yet. Not when two of the most superbly talented hip hop artists in the game are teaming up to flow over something this warm and breezy.

While the two Los Angeles emcees have been circling each other for sometime, “Tints” represents their first genuine collabo. A lush, tropical funk cut from Anderson .Paak’s forthcoming Oxnard album, “Tints” finds .Paak and Kendrick Lamar…

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Sharon Van Etten- "Comeback Kid"

.@SharonVanEtten return single "Comeback Kid" is a big-hearted embrace of those on the margins:

It’s somewhat amazing how dramatically a change in backing can totally reframe a musician. In the case of indie folk/rock artist Sharon Van Etten, a gravitation toward tape loops and synths and Roland 808s have made poetical tales much more insistent. What might’ve previously been a drama in miniature is now in 70MM on an IMAX screen.

What’s going on with her return single “Comeback Kid” calls…

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.@MusicByJeffe's "Undecided" appends simple but important requests to lovely, restrained synthpop: The desires presented on JEFFE's restrained synthpop track "UNDECIDED" are, for the part, remarkably modest. She wants a little caffeine and nicotine when the day feels like it's gonna be an unbearably long one.

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.@WizKid's fully and feverishly working to elevate the groove on an easy-moving new jam: That song title isn't false advertising my friends. On one of two new tracks from Nigerian artist WizKid, the groove is the central locus.

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Joji- "CAN'T GET OVER YOU" ft. Thundercat [Prod. Clams Casino]

.@SushiTrash partners with @Thundercat and @ClammyClams to supply some fizzy, lovestruck pop music:

For a song whose central conceit is being stuck on the same person for what seems like an eternity, Joji’s “CAN’T GET OVER YOU” doesn’t waste a whole lot of time. The light, poppy team up with Clams Casino and Thundercat lasts a shade over two minutes and part of that time is spent in a syrupy haze. Mostly, the cut from Joji’s forthcoming debut BALLADS 1skips along on the strength of the…

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Sango- "Thank You Weezy"

On the gleeful "Thank You Weezy," @SangoBeats lets Lil Wayne be Lil Wayne and it absolutely works:

This past week has been an especially bright one for all things Lil Wayne. After years of promising it, he finally released Tha Carter V and it’s darn good. Good enough to steamroll its way to number one on the Billboard charts and rack up the third-largest streaming week ever (only Drake and Post Malone have done better). Good enough to earn the best reviews for a Weezy album since Tha Carter…

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Anna- "When I Am Only A Dream"

The only way to approach @DJAnnaMiranda's swirling new techno cut for @KompaktRec is to let yourself get swept up right away:

Look, if you somehow don’t get swept up listening to Anna’s dazzling new techno cut “When I Am Only A Dream” then you must be hardhearted and leaden-footed. Hell, you’d have to be a boulder to not be carried away by this. Before you can even get properly calibrated to your surroundings, the Brazilian artist is hitting you with cyclonic synth whirls. Which then, of course, give way to a…

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Molly- "Voovoo"

.@Molly_Emeline's "Voovoo" showcases a master craftswoman building a superb groove:

The most impressive facet of Molly’s graceful seven-minute house cut “Voovoo” is that the track always feels like its gliding just above the ground. Perhaps over an amber-hued field. Even when the French artist craftily works in thumping drum machine beats that lithe feeling doesn’t dissipate. She keeps things nimble. The various synth textures will just carefully curlicue through each and every…

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Thom Yorke- "Has Ended"

.@ThomYorke's second cut from the #Suspiria soundtrack is a foreboding piece of drone music heading toward an unholy conclusion:

Attempting to equal or surpass what’s one of the most iconic scores in horror movie history is a preposterously tall order but damn it if Thom Yorke isn’t making an excellent bid. The Radiohead frontman already dazzled last month with “Suspirium,” the ambient-like first cut from the soundtrack to Luca Guadagnino’s Suspiria remake, and now he’s returned with something far more witchy and…

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Lil Wayne- "Uproar" [Prod. Swizz Beatz]

A clear highlight of #ThaCarterV, @LilTunechi's thumping, hyperactive "Uproar" finds him and @TheRealSwizzz swinging in every direction:

One of the absolute marvels of Lil Wayne’s Tha Carter V, besides the fact that it even exists, is how often Weezy F. Baby resists the urge to trend chase. Sure there are contemporary sounds within the record’s 90-plus minutes. With that kind of run-time, how could there not be? But that’s not the dominant mood. More often, Wayne’s totally content to luxuriate in styles and beats from back back…

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Anna St. Louis- "Desert"

The scenic, lovely folk of @Anna_St_Louis' "Desert" tries to find some comfort in the natural order of things:

On the distant, echoing folk of “Desert,” Anna St. Louis sounds like she has some things figured out. She recognizes the cyclical nature of certain things. “It comes and it goes, it comes and it goes, it comes and it goes,” the Kansas City-raised, L.A.-based singer hums over the song’s carefully played guitar chords. There’ll be upheaval and stasis she communicates in her own homespun way.

But…

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7Chariot- "Pyrokinesis"

.@7Chariot's luridly poppy "love song" "Pyrokinesis" is all about our inclination for destruction:

“We hurt each other without trying.” A plaintive, plain-spoken confession from pop artist 7Chariot that’s a linchpin of her new love song “Pyrokinesis.” This is the point in the relationship where all good will and good faith has been burned away. Bad intent’s occluding everything. You can almost hear it in the way 7Chariot sings parts of the luridly poppy “Pyrokinesis.” She sounds choked up.…

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Ariel- "In-N-Out"

.@Ignoreariel's sprightly electro-pop jam "In-N-Out" takes down those who don't wanna stick around:

The capacity that some folks have to cut people out of their lives when they become even the slightest, most mild inconvenience is distressing. That’s not how relationships should function. Not healthy ones anyway. If someone starts mentally, spiritually and physically burdening you then of course bid them adieu. That’s only fair to preserve some semblance of sanity.

But that’s not what the…

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Chief Keef- "Barry Bonds"

.@ChiefKeef's darkly melodic "Barry Bonds" ruminates on being surrounded by "phony love":

For a good little stretch before the release of Chief Keef’s The Cozart last week, there was a sincere and fearful belief that Keef had given into some mischievous impulses and released a full-blown EDM album. Slathering his vocals in layers of AutoTune was no longer enough. Now Keith Cozart needed to up his BPM.

Well, new dispatch The Cozart does indeed have a few EDM remixes on it but longtime…

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