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CT Recommends: ‘Spiderland’ by Slint
The album has a unique surrealness, where we can be told what to envision but are somehow unable to conjure up images even remotely concrete.
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CT recommends: Dua Lipa
Now 22, Dua Lipa has come out with a shimmery, sometimes sardonic, synth-pop debut album.
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CT Recommends: Dan Barrett
Connecticut musician Dan Barrett's expansive discography as Have A Nice Life and Giles Corey exhibits his talents in capturing depression, mortality, and all aspects of human despair across a multitude of genres.
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CT Recommends: ‘Shrink’
A show filled with Chicago-based improvisors from the iO and Second City, “Shrink” is an eight-episode series on the NBC/Amazon comedy streaming network, Seeso, and it’s the best show I’ve watched since “Atlanta.”
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CT recommends: Angel Olsen
The breathiness of Lana Del Rey, the jazzy upbeat of Zooey Deschanel, and a devil’s-in-the-details touch that’s all her own, Angel Olsen’s album is one to dance around your room alone and maybe have a good cry to.
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CT recommends: ‘Jackie’
“Jackie”—starring Natalie Portman in what should be a career-defining role—goes far beyond the constraints of its genre, where it arrives at catharsis for both subject and viewer.
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CT recommends: Shakey Graves
Few artists have the flexibility and consistent ability to amaze with their songwriting as Shakey Graves
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CT Recommends: ‘The Babadook’
It’s a story about grief and depression—two subjects rarely talked about in mainstream media, and even more rarely talked about correctly.
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Fuller House: just the same, but brand new
The new Netflix comedy “Fuller House,” a reboot of the original series that aired from 1987-95, has been described as a “porn parody without the porn.”
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Jerry Seinfeld wants you to live in the moment
Once Papa concluded his routine, Seinfeld came out with his full-fledged charm and larger-than-life bravado. For the next hour and a half, Seinfeld brought us to hysterics only with a wooden stool, a bottle of water, and his iconic voice.
