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Maria Somerville
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The Irish musician’s gossamer dream pop is both mythic and real, a wild and ancient landscape in which her own figure is just barely perceptible
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SUMAC and Moor Mother have taken an unprecedented approach, reexamining Afrofuturism through a deliciously dissonant and catastrophic lens, resulting in one of the year’s most essential listens
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SUMAC & Moor Mother
The Film
The Film is at its most impactful when SUMAC and Moor Mother's most obvious musical building blocks are conjoined
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SUMAC & Moor Mother
The Film
Where Moor Mother's usual free jazz band Irreversible Entanglements give warm instrumental life to poem which are ultimately hopeful for change, Sumac offer grinding feedback symphonies. Print edition only
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SUMAC & Moor Mother
The Film
Some of the most minimal yet complex, heavy but refined music going. Print edition only
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SUMAC & Moor Mother
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A full-length collaborative work from the avant-metal group and poet/sound artist that plays as a tense, panic-stricken narrative
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SUMAC & Moor Mother
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SUMAC and Moor Mother cinematically raise the stakes on their collaborative record, The Film
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A circular experience that makes you want to hit ‘play’ by the time finale ‘Pants’ closes out
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Viagra Boys’ self-titled album is a gleefully unhinged feat of epic silliness—just as musically brilliant as it is absurd, as willfully brutal as it is carefully constructed
PopMatters
Beirut
A Study Of Losses
Zach Condon’s (Beirut) commission to compose music for a Swedish circus works well as an album but serves better as an artistic statement
PopMatters
Self Esteem
A Complicated Woman
Taylor is a fantastic vocalist, and A Complicated Woman plays to that strength
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