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Sylvan Esso managed to evoke something deeper, asking and answering personal questions through song.
"I wanted to transform all of these fears into music that makes me feel happy and safe and honor these dreams."
It’s like revisiting an awkward phase after growing up and gaining confidence—it’s still there, but beneath layers of development and maturity.
After a few listens, the album’s message becomes clear: Earl does not like s**t, and he most certainly does not go outside.
There was clearly some beauty in this impracticality, a beauty that eluded me completely.
Lemon yogurt. A video store. We’re all gonna die.
Stromae focuses on issues closely related to his childhood, such as abandonment, racism and disenfranchisement.
The album is the beginning of a conversation, not the end of one.
At age 29, Jesso is a late bloomer for today’s music industry, yet it is his maturity that brings his music the gravitas and emotional intelligence that makes it so powerful.
Listening to the album, one gets the sense that she might be singing her twitter feed aloud.
Today, his works are a sort of time capsule, allowing viewers to partially experience what life was like back then.
Strangers to Ourselves sounds like an album created by people who dislike to hear their own praises.
While Blade of the Ronin is disappointing in many aspects, it still overall is an entertaining and worthwhile listen.
The beauty in this album is found in the more vulnerable moments.
I once asked an honest, musically aware friend if it would ever be respectable to like Never Shout Never. His immediate text response: “No.”
This victory makes him the only Duke employee, including faculty, who has won a Grammy award.
“Oh it has to be love. Either that or losing one’s goat.”
If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late is the weakest of his four main commercial releases but still a solid artistic statement and a worthwhile listen.
Our Own House is fun, upbeat, relatable and a joy to jam out to from start to finish.
Father John Misty’s new album, I Love You, Honeybear, is a rare example of moderation in modern music.