A decade into the era of perpetual listening, four records from this winter asked listeners to sit, start to finish, and reconsider what pop is for.
A 4,200-word reading of Fearless Movement, the long quiet passages between horn solos, and the cost of a cosmology that wants to be heard in arenas and living rooms alike.
Staff critic since 2017 · 142 essays filed
Renata writes about the long memory of folk music — where a song lived before it was recorded, who carried it across a border, and what it asked of the listener when it arrived. Her work has been cited by The Guardian, NPR Music, and the Library of Congress Recorded Sound Archives, and she serves on the editorial board of the Association of Music Critics of North America.
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