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An album of undeniable grace and unequivocal beauty, Rose’s third studio affair suggests that something has indeed changed in Lucy Rose.
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Moyet’s ninth studio LP welcomes age and experience as artistic cogency that wrecks (and resets) the systemic rule of retreat, return and persist.
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The album’s more complex arrangements and arcane lyrics may verge on the esoteric at times. But we, the listeners, are better off because of this.
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As their ninth studio LP proves once again, Saint Etienne have always had a way of turning the ordinary into something spectacular.
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Kendrick Lamar’s latest watershed is arguably his finest song suite of his career to date, and by extension, the first bona fide classic album of 2017.
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