We have new writing that we guarantee you will enjoy more than TSJ enjoyed Highly Suspect’s latest!
- For Pitchfork, Alfred Soto encourages readers to give Michael Kiwanuka’s new album, Kiwanuka, multiple listens: “What on first or even third spin unfolds as an easy listen eventually reveals itself as a mournful and often despairing work.”
- For The Cresset, Josh Langhoff pays tribute to the late Aretha Franklin’s expansiveness of vision and technical skill, on display in the 1972 concert film Amazing Grace.
- And for Rock & Roll Globe, Thomas Inskeep marvels, not for the first time, at Frankie Goes to Hollywood’s Welcome to the Pleasuredome, now 35 years old, including “how prog the damn thing is.”