It's 12:49 am local time in Belgrade, Serbia, and SongOfTheFens, caught in the throes of a nighmarish case paper due before 9:00 in the morning, stops. His hands freeze above the keyboard, midway through a sentence describing the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh. The synth and vocoder dancing frantically in his ears reaches an abrupt stop. "Wondering Who" is over, but he does not freeze to change the album. No. He stops, for a thought strong enough to halt his momentum has ... read more

Joedanl

100

This is some of the best music I've ever heard in my life.

1mo

bennytheasian

The magnum opus of a band with historical influence and a look ahead into one of the greatest careers in pop music of all time, Triumph is a hit-after-hit album that shows off everything the Jacksons can do. The instrumental rigor, the blazing energy, the aesthetic execution, it's all a master class in the intersectionality of soul going into the 80s.

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