olivia dean

  • Thursday rolls around again and our new ritual of Tracks of the Week begins here at TIR. New and indeed great music never really stops arriving. It seeps out of studios, bedrooms, basements and tour buses like groundwater. The job is simply to listen closely and separate the sparks from the noise. Here are four…

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  • Our Rating: 7/10 Some artists chase reinvention. Olivia Dean chose refinement. The Art of Loving is not an album built on shock or spectacle. It is built on emotional steadiness. On craft. On the decision to explore love as something complex and negotiated rather than cinematic and chaotic. From the first track, the tone is…

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