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Manan Desai

Manan Desai is the author of The United States of India: Anticolonial Literature & Transnational Refraction, published by Temple University Press as part of the Asian American History and Culture Series.

Nas, Life Is Good

Review: Nas, Life Is Good

by Manan Desai
July 18, 2012

Like most pop music, hip-hop is no country for old men.

Patti Smith, Banga

Review: Patti Smith, Banga

by Manan Desai
June 12, 2012

Listening to a Patti Smith album always feels like an invitation to glimpse her roster of influences.

Public Image Ltd., This Is PiL

Review: Public Image Ltd., This Is PiL

by Manan Desai
June 4, 2012

If lyrically This Is PiL marks a step forward for Lydon, then musically the album seems caught in a mid-’90s production rut.

Squarepusher, Ufabulum

Review: Squarepusher, ‘Ufabulum’

by Manan Desai
May 23, 2012

Ufabulum brings back the breakneck BPMs and glitchy textures that characterized Squarepusher’s earlier work.

Sene, Brooklyknight

Review: Sene, Brooklyknight

by Manan Desai
April 23, 2012

Only occasionally does Sene’s earnestness come across as naïveté.

Spiritualized, Sweet Heart Sweet Light

Review: Spiritualized, Sweet Heart Sweet Light

by Manan Desai
April 8, 2012

Unlike in the past, when Jason Pierce stirred the pot and made something new, it doesn’t cohere in the way the best Spiritualized albums have.

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