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9.0
126774
9.0 |
XS Noize
Ayewa pulls together a collection of underground hip-hop artists to help create something more digestible without sacrificing an ounce of her boundary-pushing, political, or adventurous spirit
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8.5
126798
8.5 |
The Quietus
Moor Mother has never been haphazard with language, but here her improv-intuition is volcanic
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8.4
126833
8.4 |
Beats Per Minute
This is a great and important record. Just listen
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8.0
126803
8.0 |
The FT
The experimental American artist confronts a menacing imaginative world with a varied cast of guest vocalists
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8.0
126771
8.0 |
Loud And Quiet
It’s factual and unphased – one more tenet to Aweya’s Sun Ra-like vision of uniting the revolution in jazz, poetry, politics and space travel
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8.0
126783
8.0 |
Uncut
Less abrasive but no less urgently meaningful [than 2016's Fetish Bones], a fusion of experimental hip-hop, soul, poetry and jazz-etched beatscapes that ebbs and flows around the concept of an Afrofuturist universe. Print edition only
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8.0
126784
8.0 |
Mojo
It's a wilful shuffle through the space-time continuum, where powerful pearls of wisdom about memory, the future and black justice pierce the sonic murk. Print edition only
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8.0
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8.0 |
All Music
The most experimental tracks arrive at the end of the album, including the abstract drift of the YATTA-assisted "Tarot" and the bracing "Zami," a throbbing, claustrophobic nightmare which nevertheless has a bit more breathing room than some of Moor Mother's earlier work
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7.9
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7.9 |
Pitchfork
Though the Philadelphia experimental poet and sound artist has called this her most “accessible” album, her aims remain as radical as ever
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6.0
126769
6.0 |
The Skinny
By presenting a platform for black and queer collaborators in her latest record, Philly-based noisemaker and activist Moor Mother creates an Afrotopian soundscape
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