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Shabazz Palaces
Lese Majesty

Albums
It calls itself hip hop, but the moniker is archaic, corroded, broken. Just like Lese Majesty itself, a anglicized, bastardized (dare we even say appropriated? colonized?) interpretation of Lèse-majesté, an aff...

Arctic Monkeys: “Do I Wanna Know?”

Songs
Four albums in, Arctic Monkeys have experienced all the shades of the transatlantic pop spectrum: Whatever People Say... and Suck It and See were Libertines- and Beatles-aping exercises in pristine proper Engli...