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Lucas Fagen

Lucas Fagen's favorite artform is popular music, and that means popular music—bland corporate trash and faceless functional product in addition to critically respectable touchstones and obscure dregs of arcana. He writes reviews for Hyperallergic arguing this preference.

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Trippie Redd, Louder and Crunchier

Avatar photo by Lucas Fagen February 27, 2021February 26, 2021

The Ohio rapper’s new album, Neon Shark, is a pop-punk gem.

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Throwing Everything Into the Rock Blender

Avatar photo by Lucas Fagen February 20, 2021February 19, 2021

The prog rockers of Black Country, New Road are stranded at the end of history, and don’t know where to turn.

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It’s Time for Post-Disco

Avatar photo by Lucas Fagen January 30, 2021February 2, 2021

Reviving the 1980s with the 1975, Haim, Jessie Ware, and Tame Impala.

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Playboi Carti’s Impressionist Rap

Avatar photo by Lucas Fagen January 23, 2021January 22, 2021

Carti’s willingness to disappear runs counter to the egotist individualism that has characterized rap since its inception.

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Flo Milli, Rap Queen

Avatar photo by Lucas Fagen December 26, 2020December 25, 2020

She knows you love to be entertained.

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Two Sad Christmas Songs

Avatar photo by Lucas Fagen December 19, 2020December 20, 2021

What if the season is not jolly?

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Pop Noise Overkill

Avatar photo by Lucas Fagen November 28, 2020November 28, 2020

Big and loud music from Backxwash, Food House, Toriena, and Blackpink.

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The Heavenly Queens of R&B

Avatar photo by Lucas Fagen November 21, 2020November 20, 2020

Sharp, smooth, smoky new albums from Toni Braxton, Chloe x Halle, Ariana Grande, and K. Michelle.

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Adrianne Lenker Finds Quiet Joy in Sorrow

Avatar photo by Lucas Fagen October 31, 2020November 5, 2020

Lenker indulges no domestic rural fantasies. Her songs instead teem with danger and magic.

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Four Genre-Bending Releases to Blast This Weekend

Avatar photo by Lucas Fagen October 24, 2020November 5, 2020

From political punk to a rapper-turned-rocker, the releases below are all riotous.

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A Wall of Hyperpop Sound

Avatar photo by Lucas Fagen September 26, 2020November 5, 2020

Although Brakence is not the only Gen-Z singer-songwriter to play with noise and distortion, few so gleefully enact the violent collision of forms.

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Taylor Swift’s Quarantine Folktales

Avatar photo by Lucas Fagen September 19, 2020November 5, 2020

Swift’s latest, Folklore, really is about being a sad rich person stuck at home.

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