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Young Fathers Do It Their Way on Best Album Yet, 'Cocoa Sugar'

Cocoa Sugar is an album that retains an enigmatic quality. Provocative when it needs to be, it steers well clear of addressing current world issues explicitly. This album will resonate for years to come.

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Young Fathers Create a Powerful Ballad and Dance Track with "In My View" (Singles Going Steady)

With "In My View", trio Young Fathers performs a masterful balancing act, turning a powerful ballad into a lightly banging dance track and back again.

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Shabazz Palaces - "Since C.A.Y.A." (Singles Going Steady)

Aggressively experimental, "Since C.A.Y.A." is dissonant and schizophrenic with beats going all over the place and plenty of tasty sonic treats weaving in and out of the track.

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Mr. Lif and Brass Menažeri - 'Resilient' (album stream) (premiere)

Rapper Mr. Lif teams up with Balkan brass band Brass Menažeri for a thrilling new genre mash on their new album Resilient.

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Brockhampton: Saturation II

Brockhampton has created a new offering that is equally refreshing and enjoyable by pretty much following their original formula to the letter.

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Black Milk Gives 'Em 'Hell'

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Counterbalance: Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels 2

One of 2014's most acclaimed albums is a dense, challenging effort from two wily veterans. Profanities and profundities abound in this week's Counterbalance.

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Counterbalance: The Streets - Original Pirate Material

Geezers need excitement. If their lives don't provide them this they incite violence. Common sense. Simple common sense. So here's the very exciting UK hip-hop debut of the Streets. An early aughts phenomenon is this week's Counterbalance.

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Son Lux: Lanterns

Lanterns is full of impressive and admirable post-rock concoctions, but the parts are ultimately greater than the sum.

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Doseone: G Is For Deep

On G Is For Deep, Doseone goes for a take on synth-pop that veers between being worringly eccentric and, er, crazily audacious. Then again, Doseone has always been a wild-card, and this might be his wildest album yet.

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Brotherhood of the Traveling Parachute Pants

Like lattés, Baby Bjørns, and bicycles, we bookish white boys love hip-hop. What one nerdy white boy from Wyoming learned from hip-hop.

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Young Fathers Do It Their Way on Best Album Yet, 'Cocoa Sugar'

Cocoa Sugar is an album that retains an enigmatic quality. Provocative when it needs to be, it steers well clear of addressing current world issues explicitly. This album will resonate for years to come.

Young Fathers Create a Powerful Ballad and Dance Track with "In My View" (Singles Going Steady)

With "In My View", trio Young Fathers performs a masterful balancing act, turning a powerful ballad into a lightly banging dance track and back again.

Shabazz Palaces - "Since C.A.Y.A." (Singles Going Steady)

Aggressively experimental, "Since C.A.Y.A." is dissonant and schizophrenic with beats going all over the place and plenty of tasty sonic treats weaving in and out of the track.

Mr. Lif and Brass Menažeri - 'Resilient' (album stream) (premiere)

Rapper Mr. Lif teams up with Balkan brass band Brass Menažeri for a thrilling new genre mash on their new album Resilient.

Brockhampton: Saturation II

Brockhampton has created a new offering that is equally refreshing and enjoyable by pretty much following their original formula to the letter.

Black Milk Gives 'Em 'Hell'

Much of If There's a Hell Below's themes relay anxieties buried deep, manifested as sound when they are unearthed.

Counterbalance: Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels 2

One of 2014's most acclaimed albums is a dense, challenging effort from two wily veterans. Profanities and profundities abound in this week's Counterbalance.

Counterbalance: The Streets - Original Pirate Material

Geezers need excitement. If their lives don't provide them this they incite violence. Common sense. Simple common sense. So here's the very exciting UK hip-hop debut of the Streets. An early aughts phenomenon is this week's Counterbalance.

Son Lux: Lanterns

Lanterns is full of impressive and admirable post-rock concoctions, but the parts are ultimately greater than the sum.

Doseone: G Is For Deep

On G Is For Deep, Doseone goes for a take on synth-pop that veers between being worringly eccentric and, er, crazily audacious. Then again, Doseone has always been a wild-card, and this might be his wildest album yet.

Brotherhood of the Traveling Parachute Pants

Like lattés, Baby Bjørns, and bicycles, we bookish white boys love hip-hop. What one nerdy white boy from Wyoming learned from hip-hop.

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Mikey Wax Celebrates Simplicity With "Big Little Life" (premiere)

Scott Danbom's Static Diary Gently Rises with "UFO" (premiere)

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Low Swans Debut Melodic and Richly Layered Electronic Track "No One Was Supposed to Know" (premiere)

Ed Vallance Soars in 'Midair' (album stream)

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