![]() ![]() Sufjan Stevens stripped back all his orchestral indulgences and tried making a devastatingly direct record about family and loss. Chance The Rapper subsumed his talents into a full-band soul-gospel-jazz odyssey about being in love with life. Bjork turned to experimental electronic music to help her cope with the open wound of her divorce. Kendrick Lamar pulled from spoken-word and abstract jazz to make an opus about what it’s like to be black in America in 2015. More often, people are trying out insanely ambitious ideas and pulling them off. ![]() There have been disappointments, for sure, but they’ve been few and far between. Thus far, 2015 has been stuffed with major artists setting their sights terrifyingly high and then somehow hitting their targets. And when the huge, fully-formed masterpieces are dropping from the sky with no notice whatsoever, is it even safe to tear our faces away from the internet for a day or two? These are good problems to have. As in: How are we supposed to process all this? How can we fully appreciate one major piece of work when there’s always another one coming right around the corner. The amount of great music in the past six months has been almost unfair.
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