NPR MUSIC: NPR Music's 26 Favorite Albums Of 2021 (So Far) (Copy)

NPR MUSIC: NPR Music's 26 Favorite Albums Of 2021 (So Far)

BY TOM HUIZENGA

“Fueled by a two-note theme in the vibraphone emerging from a thicket of sleigh bells, the late Julius Eastman's Femenine unfolds one surprising and beautiful layer after another for a jubilant 67 minutes. Freewheeling solos for flugelhorn, piccolo and cello share space with swirling, minimalist repetitions that, if you drink it all in, just may leave you feeling sublimely intoxicated.”

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