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Fulminate

In their annual year-end critics’ poll, The Seattle Times ranked Fulminate as one of the very best Seattle albums of 2020, saying:

The Tri-Cities native made good on his ambitious debut the rapper describes as a concept album centered on the perspective of a Black man in America. Over tracks often borrowing elements of jazz and electronic music, Nobi chops and dices weighty bars like a seasoned sous chef at dinner rush — meticulous, impassioned, and unflinching as he fillets institutionalized racism on songs like “New Chains.”

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Godspeed

Taylor Hart from West Coast cannabis hip-hop site Respect My Region selected Godspeed as one of the very best Northwest albums from 2020, saying:

When Shayhan released his EP, Godspeed, he dropped a video of him performing with his band on a mountainside within the Snoqualmie Forest. He gave us one of the softest and most beautiful performances of 2020 while rockin’ a Street Fighter t-shirt. Between the picturesque scenery and the mesmerizing songs, Godspeed is an essential project for anyone looking for a short and sweet escape from the hellish reality that we are currently living in.

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Black Girl Unbothered

“Chasing clout is not my dream,” raps Tacoma’s Liv† at the opening of Black Girl Unbothered. Regardless, this record has racked up significant local praise: KEXP describes the EP as “breezy, quietly confident, and romantic by immaculate design … as surehanded with shit talk as it is come-ons, celebrating the individuality of one very talented black woman,” while Dan’s Tunes succinctly notes the “combination of fluid heat.” In praising the production, Respect My Region says, “I melted the moment I heard that bass slap out those first four notes.”

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In their annual year-end critics’ poll, The Seattle Times ranked Black Girl Unbothered as one of the very best Seattle albums of 2019, saying:

“Middle fingers to the whole world / if you ain’t down with who I be,” declares this coolly confident R&B singer less than a minute into her latest EP. It’s a breezy assertion, devoid of arrogance, setting the tone for seven blissful tracks imbued with her contagious and unshakable glow. Throughout the short set, the singer and (for at least 90 seconds) rapper seamlessly flashes a variety of looks, from funked-up polyrhythmic head-swimmers to sensual neo-soul and the glitchy bounce of closing track “Euphoria.”

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Sorry We Lost You

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Eviction Notice

Pour yourself a tall glass of Hennessy, curl up on a comfortable couch, and digest this album like you would a theatrical production. With Eviction Notice, Campana brings forth a deeply personal and emotional, autobiographical full-length offering, underscored by the loss of a friend and musical homie Thee Ruin, whose name is featured on the cover, spelled out in stars above a dark desert road. For a record so much about the loss of direction, this music has such a grounded sense of place. Such physicality in the instruments. The knocks we face in life teach us lessons, and on tracks like “Look Around” with its pop chorus, Campana comes out swinging, and on “Organics” he’s shaking the dance floor.

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