Lounge Loves: A mango beer, Mdou Moctar's new album and more
— Nitin Sreedhar It has always been deodorant sprays for me unless I am travelling, when I switch to deo sticks, and so, I never got the idea of a deodorant cream. I wasn’t really sure of how a cream could have you smelling nice for long. Well, it just took a dab of the Bare Bar deodorant I was gifted recently to make me an instant convert.
Bare Bar’s deodorant cream is clay-based and contains shea butter, mango butter and coconut oil, which lend it the consistency of a body butter. It’s easy to massage on to your underarm and lasts at least for eight hours. I use the Neroli deodorant whose aroma is citrusy and herby, and perfect for this season.
If you are someone who’s finicky about what you put on your skin, this one’s a lovely alternative to a stick or a spray. — Mahalakshmi Prabhakaran Mdou Moctar’s new album is a perfect storm. On his previous five albums, the singer-songwriter from Niger has offered a sinuous, melodic and driving brand of guitar rock.
You can feel the gears shift on Funeral for Justice, which is audibly angrier. Hopefully, translations of Moctar’s lyrics (in Tamasheq) will show up at some point, but even without them, the urgency and agitation of Sousoume Tamacheq and Oh France are clear. Moctar reworks the Voodoo Chile-esque blues jam Imouhar from Niger EP Vol.
1 into a blistering five-minute track. But the most seductive track might be Takoba. Moctar sings in a mesmerising low hiss, with out-of-focus backing vocals adding to the sense of dreamy dislocation.
— Uday Bhatia I am a fan of Julia Louis-Dreyfus. She played the irreverent character of Elaine Benes in Seinfeld, survived breast cancer and now hosts the podcast Wiser Than Me that recently won a Webby. In every episode she (with her
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