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(04/10/13 8:08am)
Autre ne Veut’s most recent album, ‘Anxiety,’ merges the vocal styling of late ‘80s and early ‘90s R&B with experimental electronic backdrops. Arthur Ashin’s voice is generally front and center rather than buried in the indistinguishable haze characteristic of other artists with a similar aesthetic. Although his voice evokes the almost cheesy sensuality of the era of R&B that influenced the album, his lyrics mostly revolve around its titular theme of anxiety.
(11/01/12 4:58am)
Kendrick Lamar hails from Compton, Calif., known as the Mecca of gangster rap and a hotbed of drugs and gang violence. good kid, m.A.A.d city is his introduction to the world, a kunstlerroman that details his coming of age in one of America’s most dangerous cities. It is a stunningly cohesive effort for such a young artist. The skits throughout the album tie the narrative together in a manner that hearkens back to the golden age of hip-hop. Lamar has managed to craft hip-hop’s most buzzed-about album in recent memory without a stand-out radio single.
(09/20/12 6:16am)
The xx emerged in 2009 with a captivating and clearly defined aesthetic. The band’s hushed, minimal love songs won accolades, including Britain’s Mercury Prize. After the group established such a recognizable sound in its debut album, xx, fans wondered about the direction in which the band would take its sophomore effort, Coexist.