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Jamila Woods' latest album strikes for the root of love and heartache
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To strike at the root of any emotion is to move past the surface-level performances and half-formed feelings that shape so much of how we engage with love and heartache, to dig past the casual anecdotes and fleeting impressions that we share with strangers and distant acquaintances alike, and to reach the core of what those emotions do to us, how they shape our choices, our memories, and the quiet parts of ourselves that we only reveal to those who have earned the right to see them, a pursuit that sits at the center of the work that bears the title Jamila Woods' latest album strikes for the root of love and heartache, a sound work created in Indonesia that falls under the expansive, unbound classification of Music/Other/Other, a categorization that rejects the pressure to tuck a work of such intimate, sprawling inquiry into any preexisting box that might limit its reach or its ability to meet listeners exactly where they are, regardless of what types of music they usually turn to when processing their own
