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Listening Party: The Family Jewels by Marina and the Diamonds

I remember confusing Marina and the Diamonds with Marina AbramoviΔ. An easy mistake to make if you’re twenty, half-jaded, and just beginning to think that pop music might be smarter than you’d been led to believe. I thought Lady Gaga was referencing her with the artifice, the glamour, the grandiosity. But it wasn’t her. It β read more
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Listening Party: Deja Entendu by Brand New

DΓ©jΓ Entendu by Brand New is an album meant for nostalgia and emotional complexity. It shaped my adolescence, even though I never owned a physical copyβjust a collection of LimeWire downloads and a Walkman phone. The album defies easy categorization, often labeled alternative rock but carrying the weight of something more introspective, more unraveling than β read more