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Synth-pop, folk nostalgia, an unexpected mash-up and more in our musical round-up

The Natvral: Home The Pains of Being Pure At Heart’s Kip Berman—working under the solo moniker The Natvral—dropped a debut solo EP earlier this year. From it, the heartfelt track “Home” now gets a music video, directed by Remy Holwick. From upturned roses and an all-around pink palate, there’s over-the-top folk nostalgia here—and it works with a wink to the audience. Private Agenda: Instinct From the four-track …

Premiere: Turner Cody’s “Death is the Friend You Never Met”

Director Chris Tucci shares insight on a bleak, beautiful music video

When met with a song about death, music video directors can go in innumerable directions for complementary visuals: undercut the sorrow, emphasize it, heighten the fear, obscure it. For folk singer Turner Cody‘s new track “Death is the Friend You Never Met,” director Chris Tucci actually takes several routes, binding them neatly in a video of visual queues and structural layers. Here, stark animation meets …

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Brand new music from A Tribe Called Quest and The xx, a Leonard Cohen tribute and more in this week's music

A Tribe Called Quest: We Got it From Here… Thank You 4 Your Service​ It’s not often that we post an entire album in our Listen section, but the new A Tribe Called Quest record We Got it From Here… Thank You 4 Your Service​ is too wonderful to choose just one track from. The group’s sixth studio album features the entire original members—including the …