What does it mean to be a music critic in the age of the stealth release?

From Beyoncé to Radiohead, reviewers no longer get to hear an album early, but maybe that’s no bad thing for readersI am talking to a music business PR, having a conversation that’s become increasingly familiar over the past few years. He’s informing me that reviewers won’t be given advance copies of the new album. The artist he’s working with isn’t, by any stretch of the imagination, a globe-straddling megastar of the Beyoncé or Adele variety. She...

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