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Review: Underworld Don’t Need Your Nostalgia on ‘Barbara Barbara, we face a shining future’

8SPIN Rating: 8 of 10Release Date: March 18, 2016Label: AstralwerksUnderworld's transcendent Barbara Barbara, we face a shining future arrives in one of those windows of release-date alignments…
Harley Brown / March 14, 2016

Review: Thug Entrancer Nerds Out on the Cerebral ‘Arcology’

7SPIN Rating: 7 of 10Release Date: March 04, 2016Label: SoftwareArcology, the sophomore album from Thug Entrancer (a.k.a. Denver sound-clasher Ryan McRyhew), is very nerdy. Look at…
Harley Brown / March 9, 2016

Review: Kevin Gates Needs No Assists to Fuse His Yin and Yang on ‘Islah’

8SPIN Rating: 8 of 10Release Date: January 29, 2016Label: BWA / AtlanticWay back on the intro to his 2012 mixtape Make ‘Em Believe, Kevin Gates…
Renato Pagnani / January 25, 2016

SPIN Pop Report: Seinabo Sey Electrifies R&B, Years & Years Do Haze-Pop Right

Though the sounds of Top 40 remain largely stagnant this year, there have been several mold-breaking exceptions in Q1, eschewing the typical pop format for…
Brennan Carley / April 16, 2015

Review: Jazmine Sullivan’s ‘Reality Show’ Is So Much Deeper Than Its Title Suggests

8SPIN Rating: 8 of 10Release Date: January 13, 2015Label: RCAJazmine Sullivan tweeted a threat in 2011 that she was leaving the biz: "i'm trying to…
Alfred Soto / January 13, 2015

Review: Rae Sremmurd Flex With Promise and Big-Name Guests on ‘SremmLife’

6SPIN Rating: 6 of 10Release Date: January 06, 2015Label: EarDrummers/InterscopeOne of 2014's greatest viral moments came during Solange's wedding afterparty, when the singer and her…
Brennan Carley / January 7, 2015
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