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Let this be known from the jump: Listening to Jadakiss will notstamp your ticket to heaven. His second solo album offers little inthe way of social commentary, colorful storytelling, playfulhumor--all the hallmarks that make albums by your averageGod’s son or college dropout compelling.

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Any smarmy hack can slap on a Fu Manchu and cop some Travoltamoves, but it takes a fearless artist to turn the radio pop of themuch-maligned ’70s into an aesthetic revelation. Here, formerWFMU DJ and IDM miscreant Jason Forrest gives me-decade soundchunks--mirror-ball disco, classic rock, bubblegum pop--a lovingblastoff.

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It’s only appropriate that the mentor-minded underachieversof Superchunk open their label’s anniversary set with anotherband--Neutral Milk Hotel, whose leader Jeff Mangum disappearedafter two intimately surreal indie-rock masterpieces.