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Monday Mixtape: Post Malone, Bat For Lashes, The Highwomen & Miles Davis

Every Monday, I make myself a playlist of (mostly) new songs. It gets me in the habit of hunting for new music and hopefully gets me embracing fresh trends. This is the Monday Mixtape.

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Post Malone feat. SZA, “Staring at the Sun”
Post Malone is one of the biggest names in pop music, and he’s done it by basically combining all of the dominant sounds of the moment into one buffet: Lo fi mumble rap, emo confessionals, bedroom pop intimacy, New Wave revivalism. He’s ostensibly a rapper, but his new album Hollywood’s Bleeding doesn’t have a whole lot of actual rapping on it; rather, he sticks to his off-kilter croon to deliver filthy heart-on-sleeve poetry.

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Monday Mixtape: Missy Elliott, Lana Del Rey, Tool & Sheryl Crow!

Every Monday, I make myself a playlist of (mostly) new songs. It gets me in the habit of hunting for new music and hopefully gets me embracing fresh trends. This is the Monday Mixtape.

Missy Elliott, “Why I Still Love You”
Caught up in the fervor over the release of Taylor Swift’s Lover was the arrival of Missy Elliott’s new EP Iconology, her first collection of new songs in a decade (she’s put out singles here and there but this is the biggest single batch of Missy songs since The Cookbook came out in 2005). The single “Throw It Back” is a reasonable enough blast of hip-hop beat science, but Missy still has a knack for turning modern R&B on its ear as it bridges the past and the future.

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