Tom Krell has an advanced degree in philosophy, and his new How to Dress Well album is called The Anteroom. This is the closest Krell’s come to using a GRE-level vocab word in conjunction with his once-wispy R&B project. (The “What Is This Heart?” cut “Pour Cyril” has a whiff of grad student dweeb humor to it too, with the pun.) Will this minor elevation in diction signal an unexpected shift in sound? A return to the vaporous obscurantism of Krell’s early work after a couple of albums that have spent more and more effort on musical and emotional clarity??

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“Singing, to me, just feels really vulnerable.”
– Mac Miller

Mac Miller died today at his home, according to The Blast and TMZ. The Pittsburgh rapper was 26.

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For more than a decade now, we’ve all been watching poor, lonely Hauschka do the “prepared piano” thing seemingly in isolation. So thank the lord that Kelly Moran is around to keep him company (and to make the prepared piano landscape a little more variable for us listeners!).

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“LIKE” this post AS SOON AS IT’S CONVENIENT FOR YOU, because Julia Holter is back with more choon for your headtops. Titled Aviary, the (new) album features 15 (new) tracks and serves as her first (new) record since 2015’s Have You In My Wilderness (our 11th favorite album of that year).

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Whaaaaaaa!! What’s going onnnnnnnnn?!

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*nostalgic sigh* It seems like only five months exactly since I let you in on a little secret involving DAWN (aka Dawn Richard) and a certain 2019 album in the works over at her camp. Well, a lot can change in 41.66% of a year, but sometimes things stay the same, instead. What I’m trying to say is that DAWN has officially confirmed a new album will be out in “early 2019” through Local Action/Our Dawn Entertainment. So I guess I’ll see you in another five months!

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