Joey Bada$$ - B4.DA.$$. "Hope you never find out who I really am / 'Cause you'd never love me," she sings on "Garden (Say It Like Dat)." Amen. —River Donaghey, Early reviews of Turnstile gigs right around the time of the release of the Step to Rhythm EP were not just flattering, but downright jaw-dropping. None of this makes the album nostalgic, though. What results is the decade's finest breakup album. Body Talk has a few blissful moments (see: "Indestructible" and "Stars 4-Ever") but it's probably best known for dance-floor-slaying, devastating anthems like "Call Your Girlfriend" and "Dancing On My Own." DAMN. he sings in a near-comic moment of self-reflection. With song names like I Spend My Days (Wishing Them Away), it was the perfect, screaming antidote to the ennui of modern existence. There have been so many more reasons to be angry at the world since then. Having already made a name for themselves with their guttural 2015 debut, Greyer Than You Remember, Employed To Serve’s follow-up saw the Woking metallers outgrow the underground thanks to its expertly-calculated assault of sludgy, explosive chaos. They're dorks! Although Aberdeen alt. A conceptual double album with artwork from Storm Thorgerson (the artist behind Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin album covers) may have sounded pompous, but through its daring blend of stinging hard-rock, piercing sentiment and bold experimentation (bagpipes, anyone?) She litters her lyrics with on-the-nose metaphors like "buggin', like mosquitoes" and garbles satirical mumble-rap murmurs throughout the project.
rockers The Xcerts never quite followed their countrymen Biffy Clyro and Twin Atlantic in scaling the heights of (super)stardom, they still managed to lay out plenty of the decades most honest and affecting tunes. She calls and coos like a dove, melody circling toward a peak that mimics desire. "On Battleship Hill's caved-in trenches / A hateful feeling still lingers," she sings on "On Battleship Hill," her voice curling into an astonishing falsetto. If indie-rock looped back to the Nineties, hip-hop did the opposite, evolving faster than any other style of music as it got more emo (thanks, Drake) and more political and more sonically deep-space out-there all the same time. glad this exists but just to point out this you guys are missing at least one - chance the rapper's coloring book has an 89 with 21 reviews so it should be up there bumping out foundations of a burden. If it feels like a culmination, that's by design; LCD billed this as their final album (complete with a career-spanning, confetti-splashed Madison Square Garden farewell concert), before ultimately reuniting in 2017. But his latest, 2019's House of Sugar, is probably the most powerful example of his songwriting's versatility and adventurousness. To put it bluntly, at the tail end of EDM's reign, second-generation Ethiopian queer women hadn't quite become the dominant voice within dance-floor-primed music.
rockers The Xcerts never quite followed their countrymen Biffy Clyro and Twin Atlantic in scaling the heights of (super)stardom, they still managed to lay out plenty of the decades most honest and affecting tunes. She calls and coos like a dove, melody circling toward a peak that mimics desire. "On Battleship Hill's caved-in trenches / A hateful feeling still lingers," she sings on "On Battleship Hill," her voice curling into an astonishing falsetto. If indie-rock looped back to the Nineties, hip-hop did the opposite, evolving faster than any other style of music as it got more emo (thanks, Drake) and more political and more sonically deep-space out-there all the same time. glad this exists but just to point out this you guys are missing at least one - chance the rapper's coloring book has an 89 with 21 reviews so it should be up there bumping out foundations of a burden. If it feels like a culmination, that's by design; LCD billed this as their final album (complete with a career-spanning, confetti-splashed Madison Square Garden farewell concert), before ultimately reuniting in 2017. But his latest, 2019's House of Sugar, is probably the most powerful example of his songwriting's versatility and adventurousness. To put it bluntly, at the tail end of EDM's reign, second-generation Ethiopian queer women hadn't quite become the dominant voice within dance-floor-primed music.
rockers The Xcerts never quite followed their countrymen Biffy Clyro and Twin Atlantic in scaling the heights of (super)stardom, they still managed to lay out plenty of the decades most honest and affecting tunes. She calls and coos like a dove, melody circling toward a peak that mimics desire. "On Battleship Hill's caved-in trenches / A hateful feeling still lingers," she sings on "On Battleship Hill," her voice curling into an astonishing falsetto. If indie-rock looped back to the Nineties, hip-hop did the opposite, evolving faster than any other style of music as it got more emo (thanks, Drake) and more political and more sonically deep-space out-there all the same time. glad this exists but just to point out this you guys are missing at least one - chance the rapper's coloring book has an 89 with 21 reviews so it should be up there bumping out foundations of a burden. If it feels like a culmination, that's by design; LCD billed this as their final album (complete with a career-spanning, confetti-splashed Madison Square Garden farewell concert), before ultimately reuniting in 2017. But his latest, 2019's House of Sugar, is probably the most powerful example of his songwriting's versatility and adventurousness. To put it bluntly, at the tail end of EDM's reign, second-generation Ethiopian queer women hadn't quite become the dominant voice within dance-floor-primed music.
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