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Chase & Status's Generic Everything: Ten Tracks, Twelve Guests, Half an Hour

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10 October 2026 · drum and bass · electronic · album review Chase & Status's Generic Everything: Ten Tracks, Twelve Guests, Half an Hour By Stephen Agorsor Chase & Status released Generic Everything on 9 October 2026. The album page lists it as ten songs and twenty-nine minutes; adding up the individual track times on that same page comes to 29:54. The page also gives the release as their eighth album, credited to 2RUFF Records Limited, and files it under Electronic. What stands out before you play a note is the arithmetic of the voices: ten tracks, twelve guest names, and not one track credited to Chase & Status alone. Everything worth saying about the record follows from that. What is on the record The ten tracks, in the order the page lists them, with running times and the credits exactly as printed there: Disgruntled (feat. J Hus & IRAH) (3:12), Tension (feat. Saam Sultan) (2:27), Carnage (feat. Little Simz) (3:08), Essa Ta Quente (feat. Skrillex) (2:46), J...

Rkomi's A MILANO: Eight Tracks, Nineteen Minutes, One City

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10 October 2026 · italian rap · album review Rkomi's A MILANO: Eight Tracks, Nineteen Minutes, One City By Stephen Agorsor Rkomi's A MILANO landed on 8 October 2026: eight tracks, no title track, and nothing on it that reaches three minutes — the longest cut, FERITA , stops at 2:57. Played end to end it runs about nineteen minutes, less time than plenty of people spend getting into the city it is named after. That brevity is the first thing worth noticing, and it is not incidental: it reads as the record's main formal decision. What is on the record The eight titles, in order, with their running times: SOTTERRANEO (Intro) (1:28), A MEZZ'ORA DA MILANO (2:03), CARICA (2:37), CALVAIRATE CALIFORNIA (1:56), CRAZY CRAZY (2:38), DA PALAZZO A PALAZZO (2:48), FERITA (2:57), HAKEEM (2:38). Three of the eight credit a second artist alongside Rkomi: Khodi on A MEZZ'ORA DA MILANO , Promessa on DA PALAZZO A PALAZZO , and Noyz Narcos on the closer, HAKEEM . Those are t...

Greta Van Fleet Trade the Myth for the Songbook on "Palace for the People"

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  Greta Van Fleet · Palace for the People Greta Van Fleet Trade the Myth for the Songbook on "Palace for the People" Their fourth album still wants the big room, but for the first time it gets there in 58 minutes and lets the songs do the arguing. By Stephen Agorsor | October 9, 2026 | 7.5/10 Artist Greta Van Fleet Album Palace for the People Label Republic Records Released October 9, 2026 Runtime 58 min Rating 7.5/10 Palace for the People opens with 102 seconds of scene-setting and closes with six minutes and twenty seconds of everything at once. In between, Greta Van Fleet fit thirteen songs into 58 minutes — a long album that behaves like a much shorter one, and the first record they've made where the running order itself feels like a point of view. That might sound like a small thing to lead with. It isn't. This is a band whose whole critical reputation rests on how much room they take up, and who have spent years being asked to account for the size of their ambi...