After early career success like Peniston’s, many artists would rather sell their souls than chance to change the formula, even if they have to create work they don’t love. Peniston refused.
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Largely overlooked in the wake of ‘Out of Time,' ‘Automatic for the People' and ‘Monster,' R.E.M.’s terrific tenth LP remains one of their strongest ever.
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With their collaborative debut, Asheru and Blue Black established that intelligent, immaculately crafted and vibe-heavy music very much had a place in the vital independent hip-hop paradigm.
Read moreSlowdive’s Debut Album ‘Just For A Day’ Turns 35 | Album Anniversary
From start to finish, the band’s debut affair utterly glows, with its aural atmosphere that is constantly scintillating, building and bursting with sonic energy in incessant crescendoing wah-wah bliss.
Read moreNaughty By Nature’s Eponymous Second Album ‘Naughty By Nature’ Turns 35 | Album Anniversary
The songs featured here feel authentic and expertly executed, and even the songs that seemed geared toward pop success don’t clash with the group’s sensibilities.
Read moreQueen Latifah’s ‘Nature of a Sista’’ Turns 35 | Album Anniversary
Latifah’s second studio affair is a positivity-dominant set of R&B, dance, funk, and reggae that tested the limits of hip-hop while reinforcing the vitality of the female voice in the genre.
Read morePoor Righetous Teachers’ ‘Pure Poverty’ Turns 35 | Album Anniversary
On their stirring sophomore album, the group maintained their approach that they’d utilized on their debut album (1990’s ‘Holy Intellect’), while improving lyrically and musically.
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Three decades on and despite loads of unwarranted criticism, Jamiroquai’s terrific third studio album still sounds as fresh and invigorating as ever.
Read moreBob Dylan’s ‘Modern Times’ Turns 20 | Album Anniversary
‘Modern Times’ mourns a musical idiom by giving it another good try, because if it’s in your bones, that’s how you grieve stuff anyway.
Read moreThe Roots’ ‘Game Theory’ Turns 20 | Album Anniversary
The Roots’ seventh studio affair is the disquieted soundtrack to learning you’re in a game engineered for you to lose—a first-person shooter with your weapons removed.
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