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new avatar is Kelela’s most accomplished record yet

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Skip to the content There’s a moment, a little under a minute into the new album from R&B maverick Kelela, at which everything just comes together. It feels like a resolution, but surely it’s too early for that: we’ve only had fifty-eight seconds of relatively spare intro section up to this point. Perhaps, then, it’s not a resolution of something internal to the record itself, but an expression of some wider sense of relief.
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Detached From The Rest Of You is Loraine James’ boldest, most immediate record yet

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By this point, Loraine James needs little introduction.
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Golem Mecanique - Siamo Tutti In Percolo | The Quietus

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By David McKenna Verified, Jennifer Lucy Allan, Bobby Barry Verified, Luke Cartledge Verified
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The life and work of pioneering poet and director Pier Paolo Pasolini casts a long shadow over this record from French artist Karen Jebane, also known as Golem Mecanique. The album’s title, which translates as “we are all in danger”, is derived from the final interview Pasolini gave before his still-unsolved murder in 1975, and a sense of threat pervades the record from start to finish. This is a dense, foreboding album, its scale and texture as unforgiving as a vast, broiling body of water.
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