The Example album: don't play quietly

The last 18 months have seen previously underground urban artistes express an unprecedented interest in pop while traditionally overground artists have continued to plunder supposedly credible styles and scenes. When it goes wrong, or is done for the wrong reasons, it's a compromise and an embarrassment, but when it goes right it feels like the artist is putting their music there in the middle not because it feels like it should be there, but because that's where it makes most sense and sounds ...

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