Wizkid's 'More Love, Less Ego' is so relaxed it's nearly static

The Nigerian singer is among the biggest stars of a generation. Though pleasant, his new album refuses to keep pace with a rapidly evolving genre.

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SAULT's 5-album drop deepens its long-standing communal values

The collective's new music — Today & Tomorrow, AIIR, Earth, 11 and Untitled (God) — suggests divinity void of control or coercion, in order to contemplate our common human needs.

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The personal apocalypse of Weyes Blood's 'And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow'

The singer-songwriter's fifth album is an ecosystem of intimacy, in its power to redeem and to destroy.

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SAULT's five-album drop deepens its long-standing communal values

The collective's new music — Today & Tomorrow, AIIR, Earth, 11 and Untitled (God) — suggests divinity void of control or coercion, in order to contemplate our common human needs.

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Album Review: 'Tu Historia' by Julieta Venegas

Julieta Venegas, a legend of Latin American pop music, released her first album in seven years, called "Tu Historia."

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GloRilla is finding her voice

Though it feels like a mere sample of what's to come, the Memphis rapper's new EP presents her as a singular talent using her instrument as a megaphone for provocation and inspiration.

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'Revival' captures drummer Elvin Jones as a nascent bandleader finding his voice

A previously unreleased live recording from 1967 finds the iconic jazz drummer experimenting outside the spotlight in a small New York club, assessing his next steps at a pivotal moment in his career.

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In the devastation of climate change, Daniel Bachman captures what's left behind

In field recordings and fingerstyle guitar, Bachman's diaristic Almanac Behind documents cataclysmic weather as it becomes a larger part of our lives.

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There's still no one like Santigold

On the startlingly direct Spirituals, and in headline-grabbing rebukes of music's trickle-down economy, Santi White is what she's always been: a forward-thinking alternative to pop's here and now.

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Drake and 21 Savage are sore winners on 'Her Loss'

The duo trades threats and out-of-pocket disses of virtually everyone they've ever encountered on a new album. It's ugly, but it mostly works as a more targeted, focused version of Drake's whole deal.

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'Wakanda Forever' hopes to replicate the success of 'Black Panther'

The sequel to the Marvel film Black Panther is in wide release this weekend. Wakanda Forever directly addresses the death of the character played by the late Chadwick Boseman.

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How country music allowed Jerry Lee Lewis to vary his wild-man persona

Lewis came up in rock, but proved his country chops on the 1968 album Another Place, Another Time. The music suited his piano style, and the lyrics fit the emotions he brought to every performance.

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Jazz trio Thumbscrew celebrates 10 years together on 'Multicolored Midnight'

From the beginning, Thumbscrew has had a thing for off-kilter rhythms and shifting accents. This new album is filled with idiosyncratic tunes — music befitting of the idiosyncratic band.

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