Deftones are back in shape with their atmospheric and heavy newest single 'Genesis'; Aimee Mann covered Leonard Cohen’s ‘Avalanche’ for HBO’s true-crime docu-series 'I’ll Be Gone In The Dark', it's a changed song, richer, sang differently; Jamila Woods' 'Sula' is accompanied by an erotic video with the singer as the star of it; another "different" cover - Lykke Li plays Gloria Gaynor's disco anthem 'I Will Survive' as a haunting piano ballad.

Sampa the Great

BC's selection is different from the most other big outlets, plus we like BandCamp, so here it is, their 100. The top 10 - mostly albums that others don't feature: 10. False - 'Portent' 9. Helado Negro - 'This Is How You Smile' 8. Ex Hex - 'It’s Real' 7. Jamila Woods - 'LEGACY! LEGACY!' […]

Here the full 70 list; the top 10 spots are taken by the following: 10. Purple Mountains – 'Purple Mountains' 9. Big Thief - 'U.F.O.F.' 8. Angel Olsen – 'All Mirrors' 7. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – 'Ghosteen' 6. Jamila Woods – 'LEGACY! LEGACY!' 5. Dave - 'PSYCHODRAMA' 4. Fontaines D.C. - 'Dogrel'  […]

Jamila Woods

PopMatters made a good selection of 15 best R'n'B/soul albums published in 2019. There's Emeli Sandé with "a real touch of warmth and love" on her 'Real Life', Michael Kiwanuka with "luminous songs", Jamila Woods with songs that "feel like individual baptisms as much as compositions" and, obviously, a dozen others. Check the full list […]

Each track on second album by Chicago-based poet, singer, activist, and teacher is named after a cultural icon who inspired Woods and shaped her identity as an artist and individual. "'Legacy! Legacy!' dapples in R&B, funk, rap, jazz, and even some electronica", and is "a beacon for a type of self-empowerment informed by the predecessors who […]