New Reviews for May 23, 2025
Stones Throw
A charming set of tender and progressive R&B that takes cues from early-'70s soul, '90s neo-soul, and other sounds between those eras.
Strut
Full release of two legendary 1970 concerts at the Fondation Maeght gallery in France, showcasing the Arkestra in all its unshackled glory.
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4AD
An expanded edition of the dream pop band's third and final album features a slew of B-sides and previously unreleased demos.
Otherly Love Records
Incredible performances by the Arkestra leader along with members of Irreversible Entanglements, Yo La Tengo, Wolf Eyes, and others.
City Slang
The art pop weaver’s third album adopts a more straightforward indie electro-pop for unsettling, paranoid lyrics that contend with duplicity.
Thrill Jockey
Raw, spontaneous pieces originally created by the duo for an exhibition at London's Tate Modern gallery.
Alpha
An intriguing experiment in which a seemingly straightforward arrangement of the Goldberg Variations for ensemble turns out to be anything but.
LSO Live
Full-bore high drama reading of Shostakovich's partly programmatic depiction of the Russian Revolution of 1905.
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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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- May 23, 2025
May 23, 2000
On The Marshall Mathers LP, released 25 years ago today, Eminem is all about blurring the distinction between reality and fiction, humor and horror, satire and documentary, so it makes perfect sense that The Marshall Mathers LP is no more or no less "real" than The Slim Shady LP. It is, however, a fairly brilliant expansion of his debut, turning his spare, menacing hip-hop into a hyper-surreal, wittily disturbing thrill ride.
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