Tag: Xtradope
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@Xtradope’s Best Albums of the Year List: #3 Arcade Fire- Reflektor
#3 Arcade Fire- Reflektor Released: October 28th By: Dequan Huggins Fresh off their Album of the Year Grammy in 2011 Arcade Fire returned to the Indie Rock scene more inspired to create than ever. The 6-piece band including husband and wife vocalists Win Butler and Régine Chassagne traveled to Haiti and Jamaica discovering a…
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@Xtradope’s Best Albums of the Year List: #4 Childish Gambino- Because the Internet
#4 Childish Gambino- Because the Internet Released: December 6th By: Dequan Huggins In 2013 no artist had a better album rollout than rapper/ producer/comedian/ writer/ blah blah blah.. Donald Glover aka Childish Gambino. Accompanying his second studio album, Because the Internet, Gambino wrote an interactive screenplay that follows a disturbed and doubtful young man…
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@Xtradope’s Best Albums of the Year List: #5 Kanye West- Yeezus
#5 Kanye West- Yeezus Released: June 18th By: Dequan Huggins Controversy! Controversy! Controversy! No other artist caused it this year more than Chicago hip-hop legend Kanye West. After a lack luster performance on his record label compilation Cruel Summer, Kanye looked to shake the world up again with his latest project entitled Yeezus. Struggling…
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@Xtradope’s Best Albums of the Year List: #6 Tyler, the Creator- Wolf
#6 Tyler, the Creator- Wolf Released: April 2nd By: Dequan Huggins Leader of the California Collective Odd Future, Tyler the Creator, released his second full-length album last spring titled Wolf. After expressing disappointment with his the creative process of his first album, Tyler returned to music inspired to incorporate more of his sonic inspirations…
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@Xtradope’s Best Albums of the Year List: #7 Arctic Monkeys- AM
#7 Arctic Monkeys- AM Released: September 6th By: Dequan Huggins English rock band Arctic Monkeys released their fifth studio album this fall with hopes of reinventing themselves. Known for their indie punk threshold, the band relocated to Los Angeles and became inspired to create more mellow and soft-spoken rock. The risks that the Arctic…