Let the celebrations begin...

Here's one of our most, well, argumentative critics at his, well, most argumentative - getting everyone into festive mood for national festivities...

Upping the ANTI

As advertised, a sizable amount of home-work for the Independence Day week as we'll compare the reviews for Rihanna's ANTI at our 2 March session. The album itself should be widely streamable. Also, here's a little something to get the terms straight (a rare and welcome occurrence of a YouTube mini-lecture with a non-annoying voiceover):

All time Low

Hello and welcome, everyone - for the next week, let's read this retrospective of contemporary to slightly more recent reviews of David Bowie's "Low" (1977), as well as this slightly longer piece from 2012 and an in memoriam review in Pitchfork.

The album should be widely available in streaming services but it's also here, with some bonus tracks:

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