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Feb 2021
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About this episode
In January, we saw ourselves in FKA twigs and Jazmine Sullivan, drank from Ian Sweet's astral pop, shuffled Cassandra Jenkins' Tarot deck and got lost in William Parker's tone worlds.

Songs featured on this episode:
• FKA twigs (feat. Headie One, Fred again..), "Don't Judge Me"
• Jazmine Sullivan: "Girl Like Me (feat. H.E.R.)" from Heaux Tales
• Ian Sweet: "Drink the Lake" from Show Me How You Disappear
• Cassandra Jenkins: "Hard Drive" from An Overview on Phenomenal Nature
• William Parker: "The Golden Light (Hymn)" and "A Great Day to be Dead" from Migration of Silence Into and Out of The Tone World

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