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[The New Yorker] By Amanda Petrusich 14. “What Now” Brittany Howard If anyone is presently poised to inherit Prince’s mantle, it’s Brittany Howard, the former front woman of the indefinitely sidelined Southern rock band Alabama Shakes. Howard is a visionary; she can write an earworm, but is more interested in work that melts the boundaries between genres. “What ...

[Pitchfork] By Linnie Greene The singer and composer scale down their collaboration for a grief-saturated set of songs filled with austere piano melodies and diaristic reflections. Grief saturates Dawn Richard & Spencer Zahn’s Quiet in a World Full of Noise, as integral to the record’s beauty as ghosts are to a gothic novel’s tone. The air between ...

[Rolling Stone] Thirty years after the release of his “big, pompous” second solo album, Pixies frontman is reviving his solo career to give it its due, finally By Kory Grow In the early Eighties, Charles Thompson was such a swell, upstanding, likable young man that his high school teachers recognized him with “a funny little dinky ...

On the new album “Evergreen,” the artist Sophie Allison makes sadness come alive and transform. [The New Yorker] By Hanif Abdurraqib The earliest iteration of Soccer Mommy emerged out of a bedroom in the summer of 2015, with a handful of lo-fi, home-recorded songs posted to Bandcamp. The songs were sparse and built around acoustic guitar, ...