The Chicago rapper discusses how his upbringing in studios ultimately resulted in a dream collaboration with the hometown-icon producer, From the Private Collection of Saba and No I.D.
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Saba on the Cosmic Journey That Led to His New Album with No I.D.
The Chicago rapper discusses how his upbringing in studios ultimately resulted in a dream collaboration with the hometown-icon producer, From the Private Collection of Saba and No I.D.
Words: Will Schube
Photos: Skylar Watkins
Connecting the Dots with NEU!’s Michael Rother
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With 232 pages and an expanded 12″ by 12″ format, our biggest print issue yet celebrates the people, places, music, and art of our hometown, including cover features on David Lynch, Nipsey Hussle, Syd, and Phoebe Bridgers’ Saddest Factory Records, plus Brian Wilson, Cuco, Ty Segall, Lord Huron, Remi Wolf, The Doors, the art of RISK, Taz, Estevan Oriol, Kii Arens, and Edward Colver, and so much more.
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Japanese Breakfast, For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women)
Finding inspiration in Impressionist paintings and Gothic romance, Michelle Zauner’s glimmering and morose fourth album is a modern portrait of being exhausted in your daily yearning.
Young Widows, Power Sucker
The noise-rock trio’s first full-length in 11 years has all the punch and zip of a debut statement, and even feels a degree or two more thrillingly lean than its predecessors.
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The Louisville band’s tenth album marks the most cohesive version of their glossy amalgamation of ’70s pop, country, and rock we’ve heard over the past two decades.
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