New Reviews for May 16, 2025
4AD
The duo delivers a soulful, funky, and uplifting antidote to the fractured state of life in the 2020s.
Def Jam
The Public Enemy leader's first Def Jam-issued solo effort revisits the Bomb Squad's chaotic, experimental production style.
Rainbow Blonde
A joyous sequel to the singer's 2024 studio LP, this is artfully split between inspired cover versions and solid originals.
BWSCD / Invada
The singer/songwriter turns her personal and professional highs and lows into witty, affecting sketches of resilience.
Don Giovanni
Celebrating their tenth year, the Cleveland-based Afrofuturists honor the living and dead while railing against inequality and brutality.
Merge
Full of blue-collar imagery and ambling, dissonant arrangements, an artful expression of depression penned by Dan Wriggins following a breakup.
Merge
With their drummer taking over lead vocals, the anti-establishment post-punk band sound a little less angry but at least as relentlessly provoked.
Various Artists
Blue Note
U.K. and European indie pop artists pay homage to the iconic trumpeter/singer's classic West Coast jazz recordings.
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Amanda Rheaume
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Amanda Rheaume is an award-winning Canadian singer/songwriter whose Indigenous heritage informs her powerful folk-rock songs. A member of the Métis Nation, the Ottawa-based artist has built her career on emotional songwriting that explores themes of personal identity, family history, social and political commentary, and the culture of the First Nations. Throughout the 2000s, she released a series of independent EPs before breaking out with 2013's Juno-nominated Keep a Fire, an album that honored her Métis roots. Over the… Read More
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While most of the players in the jazz-rap movement never quite escaped the pasted-on qualities of their vintage samples, with The Low End Theory, A Tribe Called Quest created one of the closest and most brilliant fusions of jazz atmosphere and hip-hop attitude ever recorded.
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