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- Summary: The latest full-length release from Merrill Garbus and Nate Brenner's music project tUnE-yArDs was influenced in part by their three-year-old child (who appears on one track).
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- Record Label: 4AD
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock
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May 15, 2025Ever since 2009’s lo-fi debut Bird-Brains, every Tune-Yards album has offered raw excitement. Better Dreaming does too, and it may just be their most uplifting and inspiring work to boot. Give it a listen – you’ll be dreaming better.
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May 16, 2025As on Sketchy.'s finest tracks, Brenner and Garbus deliver emotionally direct, musically cohesive songs that don't sacrifice any of their time-tested creativity or intellect.
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UncutMay 15, 2025They're following their "first thought" instincts while allowing space for the full expression of Garbus's mighty soul voice. [Jun 2025, p.41]
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May 19, 2025Better Dreaming feels not so much like a reset, but as if they’ve rediscovered what made them such an exciting prospect in the first place. It’s resulted in the best Tune-Yards album for some time.
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May 15, 2025Thanks to the marriage of Tune-Yards’ cool-as-hell beats, whether up tempo or unhurried, and Garbus’ sharp lyricism, Better Dreaming may emerge as one of their all-time great records after a few years’ passage.
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May 23, 2025Garbus continues to examine our political landscape—and her own position in it—with her usual unflinching lyrical style, but this time it’s been metabolized into something more outward-facing and hopeful: songs you can really dance to.
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MojoMay 15, 2025These 11 songs brim with images of armed men, noxious air and entitled egotists, intermingled with notions of self-liberation and community solidarity. But the sonics too often seem stuck in Garbus's past. [Jul 2025, p.83]