Erykah Badu NEW AMERYKAH PART ON

Erykah Badu NEW AMERYKAH PART ONErykah Badu's 1997 debut album BADUIZM presented a confident young R&B star in the manner of Toni Braxton or Mary J. Blige, and also connected her with underground hip hop through her use of the Roots as her backing band on much of the record. Since then, Badu has kept to an erratic release schedule: NEW AMERYKAH PART ONE (4TH WORLD WAR) is only her third full length release. (Badu refers to 2003's funk oriented experiment WORLDWIDE UNDERGROUND as an

On the cover of his Blue Note debut Gordon appears perched in a Central Park carriage in a sharp-looking trench coat

making it look easy as they turned in increasingly exciting albums

consists of eight demos that are simply numbered and dated

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M3LL155X is a continuation of the holistic creative process that FKA twigs has undertaken on each of her previous EP releases (EP1 and EP2)

many of the elements that made their debut

the back half also features a hardcore boast session between Thought

LOVE GUN proved to be the last Kiss album to include all four original band members (1979's DYNASTY and 1980's UNMASKED included a fill-in drummer for Peter Criss)

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but gives way to a Metallica-esque riff with a seductive bridge and an instantly hummable refrain