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Tag: album review

Hozier reimagines Dante’s “Inferno” in “Unreal Unearth”

13 October 2023
Alee Dickey
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Art inspires art; this has been a truth for as long as people have been creating. The alternative singer Hozier takes this concept to a…

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Spilling or trusting your guts? A review of Olivia Rodrigo’s “GUTS”

6 October 2023
Ethan Naber
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“When am I gonna stop being wise beyond my years and just start being wise?,” 20-year-old artist Olivia Rodrigo asks on “teenage dream”, the final…

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Vince Staples: A Return to Ramona Park Roots

22 April 2022
Sam Pfeiffer
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Odd Future is a name that became practically ubiquitous during the early 2010s, most often remembered as a collective of ambitious teenagers reputable for influencing…

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“Red (Taylor’s Version)” album review

10 December 2021
Georgia Hatfield
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Taylor Swift released another rerecording on Nov. 12, making “Red (Taylor’s Version)” the sixth album of hers she now owns herself. Like with “Fearless (Taylor’s…

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A Look Back – Revisiting Kid Cudi’s “Man on the Moon II”

1 October 2021
Sam Pfeiffer
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Frequent collaboration with Travis Scott, Kanye West and a multitude of other members of Kanye’s record label allowed prolific artist Kid Cudi to maintain a…

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Donda: Quantity, Quality or Both?

24 September 2021
Sam Pfeiffer
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Aug. 29 marked the day that sent Kanye West’s discography of studio albums into the double digits with his release of “Donda,” a 27-track behemoth…

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Album Review: “L.W.” by King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard

5 March 2021
William Humphrey
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Released Feb. 25 of this year, “L.W.” serves as the follow up to King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard’s “K.G.” album that was released in…

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Joji returns with lo-fi pop album “Nectar”

9 October 2020
Titus Kelso-Weikal
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After a long period of waiting, Joji, the Asian American lo-fi hip hop artist, has dropped his new album. And though it is not a…

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Album Review: “K-12” – Melanie Martinez

25 October 2019
Jack Ledbetter
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A little more than a month after its release, “K-12” by Melanie Martinez is still one of the most creative albums to debut this year.…

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