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Bowie’s thirteenth studio affair is a musical travelogue reflecting its creator’s globetrotting experiences through themes of travel, displacement, and cultural dislocation.
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Whether it’s straight lyrical braggadocio, surreal storytelling, odes to upliftment and self-improvement, or warnings against street crime, Chill Rob G delivers powerful lyrical exhibitions.
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Mia Zapata’s memory lives on through the countless people who loved her; through the Gits’ recordings; and through the ferocious and fiery love letter 7 Year B*tch penned in honor of their fallen friend.
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Though there had been American and British pop-soul strains underneath Texas’ rock musculature on past endeavors, the band pulled them forward to operate as the axis of ‘The Hush.’
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A strange, though welcome, anomaly of an album, ‘Journal For Plague Lovers’ sits more as an isolated artistic act in the band’s catalog than a proper record.
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