The Culture Plate·Oct 27Raye Just Proved the Album Isn’t Dead. It Was Waiting for Someone Brave Enough to Go Big.A 73-minute, 100-musician, seven-minute-song pop record won the Mercury Prize. In a year when AI is learning to copy hooks, that matters…A response icon1A response icon1
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The Lost Art Of Listening·Sep 21, 2019Can A Music Prize be a Thing Of Protest?Can an industry prize be considered anything other than establishment? Well, maybe not now. Take The Mercury Music Prize for example…
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