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The Teenagers want to fuck -- then cry about it. And the French trio try to have it both ways on their debut, a spacey mélange of lo-fi guitar tones and cold dance grooves. Reality Check vacillates between Serge Gainsbourg's slutty cool and Jonathan Richman's childlike poignance: spoken-word vamps, seedy narratives, the occasional declaration of real emotion.

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James Todd Smith could've hung up his Kangol years ago, but while subgenres come and go, and young scrappers slip in and out of favor, the Queens MC legend carries on. He's perfected a formula -- wet-lipped ballads sprinkled with the occasional club banger featuring a young MC -- that's kept his career surprisingly viable. Hell, LL dropped a greatest-hits record a decade ago.

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By: Sean Fennessey