Mina Tavakoli
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From Jersey club to the U.K. underground, 2021's best electronic music looks like a complex melting pot of genre and history.
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In this tactile novel, the celebrated Norwegian musician Jenny Hval places two entropic lovers within a converted Australian brewery to explore sexuality, decay and freedom.
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Tara Rodgers has spent her career investigating the world of electronic sound, while advocating for equal representation within its community. A new suite of songs smoothly continues that work.
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Of the life of an artist — particularly for women of color — the fearless Fatima Al Qadiri says: "Everything can be an act of joy and beauty until it gets put out. Then it can get dangerous."
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The one-night stand gets a redux on the debut single from her forthcoming LP.
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Killer Mike and El-P continue to out-muse each other in a supergroup that somehow seems to get better, louder, and more pertinent since their start in 2013.
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Producers Galcher Lustwerk and Alvin Aronson make music as ceaseless, freakish and leisurely as a belt of warmed air through the endless LA summer.
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Solmaz Sharif's collection, Look, has just been shortlisted for a National Book Award. Playing on the military language in a Department of Defense lexicon, it's a wrenching look at war and duality.
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The first single from Give A Glimpse Of What Yer Not is the band distilled: a systematic reconfiguration of the Jurassic, juvenile sound it's always owned.
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Manchester's post-punk, dance-rock deities return with an excellent tenth album, and a great new song that oozes clean, modulated Newness.