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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...

E L U C I D – REVELATOR

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Barrelling out of the gates on 'The World Is Dog' with the snapping bark of a canine but a gruffer palate, the Armand Hammer rapper Elucid sets forth his most sonically diverse record to date, where hyperventilating sirens, ping-ponging kicks and claves plus the odd reggae undercurrent are provided by producers like Jon Nellen, August Fanon, Child Actor, the...

Tracks of the Week 20.04.24

Tracks of the Week
Where other artists who have embraced the windy strains and shifting timbres of the pipe organ tend to go in for liturgical refrains, celebrations of the mundane or juxtapositions of the two - like Charlemagne Palestine whose swirling harmonies and rippling overtones for carillon and pipe organ from Strumming Music and Schlingen-Blängen through Godbear and his recent outing on...