Massive Attack, '100th Window' (Virgin)
Massive Attack see through a glass darkly.
By Will Hermes 06.26.03 3:00 AM
Between U.K. MC Ms. Dynamite's debut and the rhyme battle rumored to be brewing between Birmingham's Mike "the Streets" Skinner and Brixton's Roots Manuva, 2002 may go down in history as the year the British rap scene finally blew up.
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Godspeed You! Black Emperor, 'Yanqui U.X.O.' (Constellation)
By Will Hermes 06.25.03 3:00 AM
Godspeed's 1997 debut CD, f#a#∞, began with words so eerily prescient that it's a wonder the Montreal band aren't currently being held at Guantánamo Bay. ("The buildings toppled in on themselves," intoned a shredded male voice.
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Cat Power, 'You Are Free' (Matador)
By Joe Gross 06.25.03 3:00 AM
When Chan Marshall sings, it sounds like a bloodletting--emotional, literal, whichever. On albums like 1996's What Would the Community Think, Marshall seemed to open a new vein with every note.
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