Antidawn may feel uneventful to the uninitiated, but for those who listen deeper, the rewards are rich. The defining characteristic of William Bevan’s 5-track Antidawn…
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Let’s keep it simple — Gunna is at the top of the rap game. Well, he’s gone and done it again: Gunna has released yet…
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Fighting Demons is a feel-bad album that feigns rawness in order to avoid any meaningful consideration of Juice WRLD’s legacy. Fighting Demons, the second posthumous…
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On February 22 of 2021, a major musical rupture occurred: Daft Punk, the mythic French house duo, through an “Epilogue” video casually posted to their…