Steve Lacy Stretches, Soars & Slays on Dynamic, DIY Debut Album ‘Apollo XXI’ | Album Review

June 8, 2019 Patrick Corcoran

A resolute do-it-yourself atmosphere permeates throughout Lacy’s debut long player and there is a refreshing lack of star-studded buddies crowding the track list.

‘Hive Mind’ Finds The Internet in Glorious Form, with Their Creative Peak Still to Come | Album Review

July 30, 2018 Matt Koelling

Perhaps what’s most encouraging is that while ‘Hive Mind’ elevates and updates The Internet’s formulas, it’s still very clearly not the band’s final step.

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Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s Debut Album ‘Read My Lips’ Turns 25 | Album Anniversary

With her debut solo affair, Ellis-Bextor made the dancefloor feel elegant and faintly surreal, a place where heartbreak could wear lipstick and emotional catastrophe could arrive with a four-on-the-floor beat.

Paul Simon’s ‘Graceland’ Turns 40 | Album Anniversary

Four decades later, ‘Graceland’ remains true to what it was from the start—a beautiful, tangled, genuinely collaborative album that changed what pop music could sound like.

The Rolling Stones’ ‘Tattoo You’ Turns 45 | Album Anniversary

When listening to ‘Tattoo You,’ you would never know that it is this Frankenstein's monster of an album that was pieced together with songs that came from their most creatively fertile period.

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