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Carlos De Loera | Tuesday, September 11, 2018
In 2014, Irish singer-songwriter Hozier took us to church. Now, four years later, he continues to preach his gospel of soul with his newest EP, “Nina Cried Power.” The title of the EP is a reference to the singer, Civil Rights activist and high priestess of soul, Nina Simone. The four-song EP evokes the sentimentality
Erin McAuliffe | Thursday, February 18, 2016
“The Life of Pablo,” Kanye West’s seventh album, is not regular. The album fluxes without floundering. It is powerfully disjointed in celebration and reconciliation. West begs for absolution, exalts in corporeal consecration and, as usual, demands recognition. In “The Life of Pablo,” he’s justified. From his apprehensions about religious rap on 2004’s “Jesus Walks” to