Tag: Earl Sweatshirt
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Frank Ocean – channel Orange | Album Review
The most immediately striking aspect of channel ORANGE upon first listen is how palpably mature an album it is. I know there is a necessity to categorise musicians by genre, but it’s simply impossible to box Frank Ocean in the R&B category with artists like Chris Brown and Trey Songz. While his so-called peers embrace…
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Brotherly Love: The Return of the Hip Hop Crew
There’s an old saying that goes, “two heads are better than one.” This philosophy has translated pretty well in Hip-Hop over the years with multiple emcees and/or producers banding together – in what I have always liked to picture as some kick-ass Power Rangers-like ritual – in the quest to create some fine quality music.…
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Odd Future – The OF Tape, Vol. 2 | Album Review
With their controversy, protests and uproar being cleared well out of the way in 2011, the radical stable of Odd Future now stands as an established and respected collective within music. From Tyler The Creator‘s well received Goblin album to the emergence of Frank Ocean as one of the leading vocalists in contemporary R&B, the…