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ScHoolboy Q
Oxymoron

Albums
ScHoolboy Q is one of the most acrobatic rappers at it today. Success has been good to Q, by the look of things­ ("I'mma keep on eating till my ankles fat," he memorably raps on "What They Want"), but his flow ...

ScHoolboy Q: “Break the Bank”

Songs
"Break the Bank" is ScHoolboy Q's spin on the West Coast listen-with-your-windows down banger. Keyboard notes tinkle and boom-bap abounds, but the extended wail over the beat sounds like something out of a horr...

Wild Cub: “Blacktide”

Songs
Wild Cub's ebullient "Blacktide" is as good an homage as any to the streaking synthetic sounds of 1980s pop anthems. It's an era and musical attitude that continues to inspire. Take Drake's new "Hold on, We're ...

The Shouting Matches
Grownass Man

Albums
It's Bon Iver's Justin Vernon as you've never heard him before, unless you happened to be at the first — and only, as of last month's Coachella — show as a trio* of The Shouting Matches, the project that includ...

Tyler, the Creator: “Rusty”

Songs
There's really no song on Wolf, Tyler, the Creator's second studio album, that stands alone the same way most do on his previous album Goblin. Nothing transfixes quite like "Yonkers" or "Sandwiches"; Wolf may b...