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Kurt Vile has perfected his paradox in Bottle It In (2018). He sings whimsically about darkness. He stumbles over his words gracefully, looking for meaning. He articulates his thoughts with abstract precision. ...

Kanye West’s solo albums have lacked lyrically for me ever since My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (2010). The verses tend to be fraught with as many enjoyable one-liners as they do unfinished phrases and awk...

Whether speaking up about #blacklivesmatter, all-caps yelling about “UGLY” Schoolboy Q praising his album, or retweeting fans’ posts about their own dead fish and dedicating his album to them, Vince Stapl...

“1, 2, 3 will you list it off to me? How you’re sorry you feel weird in a jubilation dream” is what the Girlpool girls whisper at the top of their third full-length -- and, of course, still wonderfully wr...

Larry Gus strains. Every song he makes pushes itself past its logical limits, every lyric pulls him closer to some breaking point, every frantic percussion hit is a punch in his own gut and yours. His musi...