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billy woods – GOLLIWOG

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It speaks to the plethora of racist caricatures and epithets which proliferated in the United States that the golliwog rag doll with its black skin, frizzy hair and blood-red lips has been described by the Jim Crow Museum as the 'least known' of the group. That certainly wasn't the case when I grew up in England, where the golliwog...

Tracks of the Week 30.09.23

Tracks of the Week
Billed as an 'illogical period piece' after time spent meditating on his musical identity during young adulthood, on his latest album Daniel Lopatin constructs a garden of forking paths which mines his own canon as much as the bricolage of seventies prog or early-nineties slacker rock, from the syrupy chopped and screwed eighties samples of Eccojams, which set the...

Tracks of the Week 06.06.20

Tracks of the Week
On a week of protests over police violence and racial inequity, there could hardly be anything more fitting musically than Run the Jewels 4, an album of distilled venom and tangible activism which finds Killer Mike and El-P in rare form over brusque and boisterous beats. Protests, personal histories, and commemorations in the wake of the murder of George...