The Puerto Rican trio’s debut album is a sleek collage of reggaetón, indie rock, and R&B, heralding a vivid new era of Caribbean syncre...
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Rema - Rave & Roses Music Album Reviews
On his promising debut, the Nigerian star has figured out exactly how he wants to sound, but he hasn’t quite nailed what he wants to say. D...
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Ibibio Sound Machine - Electricity Music Album Reviews
The London-based ensemble taps Hot Chip to flesh out the dimensions of its cosmopolitan blend of West African funk and electronic bass musi...
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Adekunle Gold - Catch Me If You Can Music Album Reviews
The Nigerian singer has the writing and vocal chops to best most of the leading men of Afropop. But his self-proclaimed transformation feel...
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Wadada Leo Smith/Henry Kaiser/Alex Varty - Pacifica Koral Reef Music Album Reviews
Improvising on trumpet and two guitars, the avant-garde composer and his collaborators mourn the natural world while asking us to forget wh...
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Riad Awwad/Hanan Awwad/Mahmoud Darwish - The Intifada 1987 Music Album Reviews
Recorded in Jerusalem in 1987, Riad Awwad’s protest album is part ode to the beauty of homeland, part historical document of Palestinian st...
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King Sunny Adé - Juju Music Music Album Reviews
Each Sunday, Pitchfork takes an in-depth look at a significant album from the past, and any record not in our archives is eligible. Today, ...
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New Age Doom/Lee “Scratch” Perry - Lee “Scratch” Perry’s Guide to the Universe Music Album Reviews
In one of his final recorded appearances, the late dub visionary trades the mixing desk for the mic on an album fusing parallel strains of ...
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Bomba Estéreo - Deja Music Album Reviews
Absorbing influences from the natural world and working with collaborators like Lido Pimienta, the Colombian group pushes its habitual elec...
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Vivien Goldman - Next Is Now Music Album Reviews
In grappling with the “mess” of our present moment, the punk legend looks relentlessly to the future, and her optimism feels alternately li...
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Sarz/Obongjayar - Sweetness EP Music Album Reviews
Buoyed by Afrobeats producer Sarz’ nostalgic, ’80s-influenced production, the Nigerian-born, London-based singer turns his attention to rom...
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Hailu Mergia/The Walias Band - Tezeta Music Album Reviews
A long-lost recording captures the Ethiopian organist and his band at the Hilton Addis Ababa in 1975, laying down deceptively breezy jazz s...
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Angélique Kidjo - Mother Nature Music Album Reviews
Collaborating with artists like Mr Eazi, Burna Boy, and Sampa the Great, the Beninese icon builds upon a proudly pan-Africanist musical vis...
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Tony Allen - There Is No End Music Album Reviews
A posthumous album captures the legendary drummer and Afrobeat icon at his most copacetic and polished, meeting collaborators at their leve...
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Femi KutiMade Kuti - Legacy + Music Album Reviews
On the duo’s generation-spanning double album, Fela Kuti leads in spirit while the baton gets passed down the family tree. Fela Kuti, the N...
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Anuel AAOzuna - Los Dioses Music Album Reviews
Two Latin-trap stars join forces for a slickly produced and familiar-sounding Watch the Throne-style joint album. From a business perspecti...
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WizKid - Made In Lagos Music Album Reviews
The Afrobeats star balances the formula to unite home and abroad with big pop songs that can compete across cultures and an underlying them...
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Toots and the Maytals - Got to Be Tough Music Album Reviews
The reggae legend returns in force on his latest album, displaying the indomitable spirit he has cultivated throughout his career. Reggae l...
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Vladislav Delay/Sly Dunbar/Robbie Shakespeare - 500-Push-Up Music Album Reviews
The Finnish experimental electronic producer and legendary Jamaican rhythm section team up in search of an elusive balance between their di...
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Maluma - Papi Juancho Music Album Reviews
The Colombian pop star’s latest is low stakes, neither offensive nor remarkable, the sound of a reggaetonero you’d expect to find on a mood...
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