Friends That Break Your Heart is James Blake’s safest record yet
The producer’s early work was sensitive and surprising, but on his fifth album he strays into vagueness.
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Without Jim Henson’s muppetry masterpiece, Bowie could have remained a mortal man. Instead, his legacy is one of ethereal weirdness.
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Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga’s Cole Porter album is a love letter to their friendship
On their second album of mid-century jazz standards, their theatrics are superb – if you like that sort of thing.
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Why did it take so long for R Kelly’s victims to get justice?
If Kelly acted as though he was untouchable, it is because celebrities so often are.
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Nao’s And Then Life Was Beautiful: blissful sounds and shallow lyrics
The London songwriter’s third record is a positivity-laden contradiction in terms.
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How Nirvana’s Nevermind spoke to an alienated generation
On the band’s defining second album, Kurt Cobain found a golden ratio between melody and noise.
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