New Music Reviews (5/24) KEXP
Each week, Music Director Don Yates (joined this week by DJ Alex) shares brief insights on new and upcoming releases for KEXP s rotation. These reviews help our DJs decide on what they want to play. See what we added this week below (and on our Charts page), including new releases from
Mdou Moctar,
Afrique Victime (Matador)
This Agadez, Niger-based guitarist’s sixth studio album is a powerful blend of traditional Tuareg music and fiery psych-rock, combining acoustic and electric guitars (including lots of incendiary, sky-scraping solos) with call-and-response vocals, hypnotic melodies and lyrics blending the political and the personal. DY
Sharecropper s Son : Louisiana Musician Finds Success Decades After Trying
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Sharecropper s Son : Louisiana Musician Finds Sucess Decades After Trying
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Album Review: Sharecropper’s Son by Robert Finley Sharecropper s Son, the third album from overnight blues sensation Robert Finley, is his strongest yet By Sean Maunier on May 21, 2021
Robert Finley Photo: Alysse Gafjken
Late bloomers might take time to find their groove, but ones like Robert Finley are worth waiting for. Now 67, the Winnsboro, Louisiana native, who turned heads with his 2016 debut
Age Don’t Mean a Thing and 2017’s critically acclaimed, tongue-in-cheek
Goin’ Platinum, seems far from ready to slow down.
His latest collection of songs,
Sharecropper’s Son (★★★★☆), is steeped in blues and soul tradition, bringing a whole lifetime of performance and love of southern musical tradition to bear on an album that brilliantly showcases all of Finley’s strengths.