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Ram

Paul and Linda McCartney

One of the best solo works from any ex-Beatle.

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Wisteria

Steve Kuhn

Wistful, reflective piano jazz.

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The Grifter's Hymnal

Ray Wylie Hubbard

Stunning, blues-soaked imagery from veteran TX songsmith

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Quarantine

Laurel Halo

Intoxicating electro-psych debut album

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Bloom

Beach House

A record to get lost in

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The Ghost In Daylight

Gravenhurst

Electro-acoustic Melancholy.

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Dr. Dee

Damon Albarn

Not the solo album it's billed as.

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Mazes Remixed

Moon Duo

A welcome second take on Mazes.

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The Only Place

Best Coast

Looking for a summer fling?

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Heavy Blanket

Heavy Blanket

J. Mascis embraces the sludge.

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Body Faucet

Reptar

Hear them roar.

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Nootropics

Lower Dens

An effective study in gloomy atmosphere.

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Aufheben

The Brian Jonestown Massacre

A move from the late '60s to the early '90s.

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Light Asylum

Light Asylum

Brooklyn electro duo's haunting debut full-length.

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Meantime

Kwes

Taking pop to new places

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Evans The Death

UK twee-punks evoke growing up in the late '80s.

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Master of My Make-Believe

Santigold

A case of over-collaboration.

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Exercises

CFCF (musician)

Quietly haunting piano and synth tunes.

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Next

JD Samson + MEN

Queer-identified dance floor jams for everybody.

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Provincial

John K. Samson

Weakerthans leader takes a break.

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Blunderbuss

Jack White

White goes solo, gets personal.

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Hair

Ty Segall and White Fence

Two one-man-bands unite.

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Sweet Heart, Sweet Light

Spiritualized

J. Spaceman takes flight again.

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A Wasteland Companion

M. Ward

Singer-songwriter returns to solo work.

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The Horror

Pop. 1280 (music group)

For those who chuckled through A Clockwork Orange.

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Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded

Nicki Minaj

Why we tend to ignore pop music.

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World, You Need a Change of Mind

Kindness

World, you need Kindness.

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Wonky

Orbital

Techno veterans play catch-up.

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Family Perfume Vol. 1

White Fence

Lo-fi gets wise and stays weird.

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I Love You, It’s Cool

Bear in Heaven

Psychedelic southerners keep the weirdness coming.

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Spooky Action at a Distance

Lotus Plaza

Deerhunter guitarist loosens the strictures for the better.

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Urstan

Mairi Morrison and Alasdair Roberts

Traditional Gaelic music brought alive.

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Happy to You

Miike Snow

Pristine pop with a dash of weirdness.

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Sees the Light

La Sera

Solo Vivian Girl ups the songwriting ante.

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Sonik Kicks

Paul Weller

The Modfather matures without settling down.

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Hymns

Cardinal

Combative partners' cross-country reunion.

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Frying On This Rock

White Hills

Brooklyn space rockers discover structure.

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Radio Music Society

Esperanza Spalding

Contemporary jazz fusionist spreads wings further.

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Between the Times and the Tides

Lee Ranaldo

Sonic Youth's secret weapon steps out.

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Silent Hour/Golden Mile

Daniel Rossen

Much more than a side project to a side project.

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Mixed Emotions

Tanlines

Underground pop that’s friendly and futuristic.

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Always

Xiu Xiu

Always different, yet always the same.

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Break It Yourself

Andrew Bird

Violin-infused folk strives for abject beauty.

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Port of Morrow

The Shins

New-look Shins make triumphant return.

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Love at the Bottom of the Sea

The Magnetic Fields

Stephin Merritt gets back to basics.

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Wrecking Ball

Bruce Springsteen

Unspectacular but affirming bit of post-Obama Springsteen.

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One Second of Love

Nite Jewel

Wiping away the grime to reveal pop perfection.

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A Sleep and A Forgetting

Islands (band)

A handful of heartbreak

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The Total Groovy

Various Artists

Pete Shelley's experimental-hippie side comes through.

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Parastrophics

Mouse On Mars

Whimsical, incongruous cut-and-paste beats.

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Into the Waves

Sophia Knapp

I don't think any of us expected this.

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Ghostory

School of Seven Bells

The difficult third album.

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