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Which album art do you like best?

Best Day of my Life - Tom Odell

Help - Duval Timothy

Neither (both!)

Voting ended onMay 8

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Duval Timothy performs 'First Rain' live in Sierra Leone

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Duval Timothy | Fall Again feat. Lil Silva & Melanie Faye

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Rosie Lowe & Duval Timothy - Son - two voices multitracked into choral arrangements

‘SON’ was recorded in London and Freetown between 2019-21. Inspired by the pair’s shared love of choral music, it began as an experiment to explore playing with the voice in more creative ways, using layered vocals as an instrument following piano harmony, arrangement and sampling. The project started in London with the title track and became a story about a world in which we hide our true ‘colours’ in order to fit in. A mother tells her son that he needs to fit in to survive before realising that she is following the same tropes passed on to her as a child. Following this realisation, she encourages her son to protect his dreams and not to listen to anybody telling him he can’t be whatever he chooses. Rosie joined Duval for a week in Freetown in February 2020 where they wrote the rest of the project, bringing friends Daniel Koroma, Kandeh Bangura, Valentine Coker, Chino Greene and Tom Herbert in for musical contributions; “We were interested in bringing our surroundings into the recordings; leaving doors open, recording in different spaces and locations, inviting the listener to experience the life that was going on around us whilst capturing the process”. All music by Duval Timothy & Rosie Lowe

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Kendrick Lamar Album Review: Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers

(pgLang / Top Dawg Entertainment / Aftermath / Interscope)

BY JORDAN MAINZER

“I choose me, I’m sorry,” Kendrick Lamar repeats on “Mirror”, the final track on his final album for Top Dawg Entertainment. By then, he doesn’t even need to say it. The Pulitzer Prize-winning rapper, who on his previous records advocated on behalf of his community, from his immediate family and friends to Black lives at-large, has spent the past five years feeling the weight bearing down on him. As much as he’s raised a family with his partner Whitney Alford, he’s suffered from sex addiction and subsequent infidelity, described throughout his songs as “lust.” He’s used both therapy and religion, describing his vices in Biblical terms, to help reign in and ultimately overcome his own trauma. Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers is a document of Lamar working on himself in real time. Each track is like a therapy session. As such, it’s the most difficult listen of his career, songs stunningly revealing the worst parts of himself before it gets better.

As Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers starts, Lamar immediately reminds you why he’s at the top of the game, unveiling spitfire rhymes over pulsating piano, garage-like drums, synth arpeggios, and generally minimal arrangements. His words, per usual, demand attention, which is why your eyebrows raise when he speaks bluntly about his troubles. “Next time I fucked a white bitch was out in Copenhagen / good kid, m.A.A.d city tour, I flourished on them stages / Whitney asked did I have a problem, I said, ‘I might be racist’ / Ancestors watchin’ me fuck was like retaliation,” he raps on “Worldwide Steppers”. It only gets more uncomfortable. On the Sampha-featuring “Father Time”, he unpacks his own toxic masculinity as a result of generational trauma and his father’s desire for him to reject emotions in favor of hardness. “When Kanye got back with Drake, I was slightly confused / Guess I’m not mature as I think, got some healin’ to do,” Lamar admits.

But just because untwisting his own mind is personally necessary, it’s not essential for Lamar to present it, unfiltered, as art. The deeply unsettling “We Cry Together” is a screaming match where actress Taylour Paige performatively plays the part of Lamar’s partner. As technically impressive as it is to hear her cry out her rhymes, the song comes closer to matching the pure anger of Eminem’s “Kim” than it does make deep points about hypocrisy in feminism. (He chides his partner for still listening to R. Kelly’s music.) He includes lazy thoughts about cancel culture and conspiracy theories on “N95″, and misguidedly wonders on “Mr. Morale” whether R. Kelly would still have committed his crimes if he hadn’t been sexually abused himself. He gives problematic figures like Kodak Black, who has faced charges of sexual assault, and Summer Walker, who has spread xenophobic information about COVID-19, large platforms. Most egregious is “Auntie Diaries”, where Lamar repeatedly misgenders a transgender relative and drops homophobic “f” bombs as a way to demonstrate his perception of ignorance in the Black community and how it must be overcome. These may be honest thoughts, and that’s okay, but for Lamar to present them as the endpoint on a high profile album is borderline irresponsible.

What’s most frustrating about Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers are its moments of brilliance where you wish Lamar had left it at recognizing the work he needed to do on himself rather than revealing it all. He sets up his journey well, declaring “I grieve different” repeatedly on opener “United In Grief” and cleverly revealing the stakes on “Count Me Out”: “Got six magazines that's aimed at me / Done every magazine, what's fame to me?” On “Crown”, one of many tracks to prominently feature South London artist Duval Timothy, he riffs on Shakespeare and the Bible: “Heavy is the head that chose to wear the crown / To whom is given much is required now.” Lamar’s texts, too, are viewed as sacred, studied in schools just as much as in music publications. But unlike William Shakespeare, Lamar is both popular and globally viewed as genius during his life, something someone imperfect, like all of us, is constantly wrestling. “I can’t please everybody,” he declares. But on Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers, that’s a mission statement more than it is a caveat.

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DUVAL TIMOTHY ft. VEGYN LIKE | HELP, 2020

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Featuring Cardi and Meg, Bad Bunny, Perfume Genius, Christine and the Queens, and more

Los 20 mejores videos musicales de 2020 según Pitchfork (incluye Nonbinary por la venezolana Arca).

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Top albums of 2020

Space Afrika - hybtwibt? ( Not On Label)

hybtwibt? by Space Afrika

Nina Harker – Nina Harker (Le Syndicat Des Scorpions)

Nina Harker by NINA HARKER

Matthewdavid's Mindflight ‎– Care Tracts (Leaving Records)

Care Tracts by Matthewdavid's Mindflight

Adrianne Lenker ‎– songs / instrumentals (4AD)

songs by Adrianne Lenker

Joshua Chuquimia Crampton - THE HEART'S WASH (Puro Fantasía)

THE HEART'S WASH by Joshua Chuquimia Crampton

Britton Powell ‎– If Anything Is ((Catch Wave Ltd)

If Anything Is (EP) by Britton Powell

n ev & Glia - ZAAN (Not On Label)

ZAAN by n ev & Glia

Silvia Tarozzi ‎– Mi specchio e rifletto (Unseen Worlds)

Mi specchio e rifletto by Silvia Tarozzi

_moonraker - Unceter (_bruxist)

Unceter by _moonraker

Duval Timothy ‎– Help (Carrying Colour)

Help by Duval Timothy

Hideo Nakasako - R0011501 (Not On Label)

R0011501 by Hideo Nakasako

infinite body - clemency (Not On Label)

clemency by infinite body

William Tyler ‎– New Vanitas (Not on label)

New Vanitas by William Tyler

Still House Plants ‎– Fast Edit (Blank Forms Editions & Bison Records)

Fast Edit by Still House Plants

ARTIST: UNKNOWN - CYBER CITY SKETCHES (SCHWAY RECORDINGS)

CYBER CITY SKETCHES by ARTIST: UNKNOWN

Various Artists – Equiknoxx Music in 2020 (Equiknoxx Music‎)

Equiknoxx Music in 2020 by Gavsborg & Shanique Marie

CS + Kreme ‎– Snoopy ((The Trilogy Tapes ‎)

Snoopy by CS + Kreme

Atonal - Cithare (Cold Blow)

Cithare by Atonal

Tara Clerkin Trio – Tara Clerkin Trio (Laura Lies In ‎)

Tara Clerkin Trio by Tara Clerkin Trio

HIEROGLYPHIC BEING - BE BRILLIANT 4 THE LEGACY THAN BE DUMB 4 THE CURRENCY (Not On Label)

BE BRILLIANT 4 THE LEGACY THAN BE DUMB 4 THE CURRENCY by HIEROGLYPHIC BEING

Mica Levi - Ruff Dog (Not On Label)

Ruff Dog by Mica Levi

Windy And Carl – Allegiance And Conviction (Kranky)

Allegiance and Conviction by Windy & Carl

Merula – Sleep (men scryfa ‎)

SCREFYS004 SLEEP by MERULA

Precipitation – Sounds Of Longing (Tourist)

"Sounds Of Longing" [TOUR042] by Precipitation

KMRU – Peel (Editions Mego ‎)

Peel by KMRU

LOG – LOG ET3RNAL (Experiences Ltd.)

LOG ET3RNAL by LOG

Andrea Laszlo De Simone – Immensità (Ekleroshock)

Immensità by Andrea Laszlo De Simone

Brannten Schnüre ‎– Ei, Wir Tun Dir Nichts Zuleide! (I Dischi Del Barone)