Master of My Make-Believe

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AlbumApr 21 / 201211 songs, 37m 43s
Indietronica Electropop
Popular
6.3 / 10

Four years after her genre-blending debut, Santigold offers a polished assortment of global pop tunes produced by the likes of Q-Tip, TV on the Radio's Dave Sitek, Boys Noize, and Yeah Yeah Yeahs' Nick Zinner.

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Music has changed a lot in the four years since Santigold released her self-titled debut—and in her estimation, not for the better. In recent interviews, the singer has bemoaned the state of contemporary pop, singling out LMFAO for particular derision in a chat with Pitchfork, and she teased her sophomore album Master…

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Santi White wants our attention. She’s certainly had it before: Almost every facet of her genre-defying 2008 debut was head…

Check out our album review of Artist's Master of My Make-Believe on Rolling Stone.com.

Frontwoman Santi White has taken on the face of Santigold for Master of My Make-Believe, as depicted in the album's artwork, which finds her portraying all four characters (even the mustached man that sits front and center).

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Santi White starts her sophomore album with explosive momentum, opening with a Karen O collaboration appropriately titled “GO!”

Santigold's hard-fought second album falls somewhere between MIA and Florence Welch, writes <strong>Kitty Empire</strong>

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Santigold may not possess Kanye’s megalomaniacal charisma, but she’s just as much of a pop-music savant.

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Santigold might have kicked off the trend for all-out sonic eccentricity in modern pop, but she sounds strangely subdued today, writes <strong>Rebecca Nicholson</strong>

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Drum-laden tribal pop that's surprisingly contagious. CD review by Thomas H Green