Contributing writer
Cameron J. Loftis
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Hear Me Out: Frank Ocean, Migos, and Calvin Harris, ‘Slide’
Such is the multicolored, breezy beauty of “Slide”—not that it skewers the life of excess that big pop panders to, but that it refuses a one-dimensional attitude toward it.
When Boys Cry
"Blond(e)" renounces the supremacy of a system that so often underrepresents the voices that Ocean labors to humanize. It provides a space for the listener to perform a similar inward turn, to reflect with a patience that has been stamped out by the flurry of new streaming services and the cursor-happy velocity of the music blogosphere.
'Love Streams': A Fusion of Hypnagogic Beauty and Disorderly Experimentation
"Love Streams" eschews the bleakness of "Virgins" in favor of a looser choral soundscape that feels more like rough draft than completed masterpiece.
Hear Me Out: Mitski, 'Your Best American Girl'
In “Your Best American Girl,” Mitski transforms self-doubt into a thunderous assertion of individuality in a sea of cultural binaries.
'Painting With': A Sun-Lit, Woozy Psychedelic Pop Swirl
Animal Collective trade in the jarring maximalist production of “Centipede Hz” for a pleasant assortment of pared-down, playful pop songs in their new album “Painting With.”