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Let's Go Out Tonight is stripped down and personal, raw and good-natured, somewhat pure. Yet, in being so it reveals its own lack
Endtroducing..... (1996)
When I heard Entroducing… for the first time, I had little perspective on the politics of sampling and too narrow a frame of reference to
Hot Buttered Soul (1969)
With Hot Buttered Soul, Hayes influenced a new generation of progressive, modern, and expansive soul recordings featuring oft-slow burning, sometimes slinky, and inevitably hip-swaying smooth
Mulatu Plays Mulatu (2025)
81-year-old Ethio-jazz Godfather Mulatu Astatke's self-covers album Mulatu Plays Mulatu could easily have been an exercise in ego, a simple greatest-hits record, the
Astral Weeks (1968)
Less an LP than a spiritual attempt to storm Heaven, Astral Weeks showed Van Morrison to be a seeker in search of some unreachable mystical