★★★★★
New Recordings by Riverside, Jessica Lea Mayfield and August Alsina
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RIVERSIDE(Greenleaf)One of the lovelier songs on "Riverside," the self-titled debut album of a sturdily approachable new jazz quartet, bears the title "Old Church, New Paint...
- www.nytimes.com
2014-04-23
★★★★★
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Release Date: April 15, 2014Label: Radio Killa/Def Jam
Last year, cooin' and oohin' street dude August Alsina arrived with one of the more mazy and rewarding radio R&B songs in quite some time, "I Luv This Shit...
- www.spin.com
2014-04-19
★★★★★
New Recordings by Riverside, Jessica Lea Mayfield and August Alsina
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RIVERSIDE(Greenleaf)One of the lovelier songs on "Riverside," the self-titled debut album of a sturdily approachable new jazz quartet, bears the title "Old Church, New Paint...
- www.nytimes.com
2014-04-19
★★★★★
August Alsina Brings His Brand Of R&B On 'Testimony'
Apr 15th, '14 • Music • by XXL Staff • No Comments
Tag-lined as a 21-year old R&B crooner "groomed" by Grammy Award-winning The-Dream, Def Jam's August Alsina has a lot to live up to. Starting his career in 2011, the New Orleans artist made a move to Atlanta that not only changed his career for the better, but also injected a new sound and era into his music...
- www.xxlmag.com
2014-04-19
★★★★★
Twenty-one-year-old August Alsina has seen a lot of trauma: drug-addicted parents, Katrina-induced displacement, homelessness, a murdered brother. But through his unique brand of decidedly gangsta R&B (it hews close to rap), Alsina views life through a lens that's both darkened and illuminated by his troubled past. His major label debut features many such examples: on Make It Home, featuring Jeezy, Alsina sombrely expresses the consequences of the zero-sum game with the eye of a street veteran...
- nowtoronto.com
2014-04-17
★★★★★
Release Date: August 20 2013 Some of the best records I've ever listened to have been "impulse" buys, meaning that that I picked up that record for a couple of reasons, usually it was by a band/artist that I've always wanted to listen to, or the cover really stood out to me. I usually don't pay attention to album covers very much, since they hardly affect how I feel about an album, but sometimes, they do stick out to me quite a bit...
- absolutepunk.net
2013-09-23
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