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Lost Under Heaven Survive an Artistically Indifferent World on 'Love Hates What You Become'

Lost Under Heaven's second album Love Hates What You Become emotionally confronts indifference in modern life, whether represented in political and social developments or environmental and societal collapse.

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Alice Merton Encourages Us to Embrace Joy and Fearlessness on 'MINT'

Alice Merton believes having fun is badass and MINT flawlessly captures that sentiment.

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Divine Weeks Remind Us of the Communal Power of Music on 'We're All We Have'

Divine Weeks' farewell record is for anyone who has ever raised a fist or lighter (or even a god-forbid cell-phone) at a rock and roll show, lost in the passion of the moment.

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'About the Light' Is Steve Mason at His Most Confident

These are songs that suggest that this is how Steve Mason has always wanted Steve Mason to sound.

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David Bazan Rises Like a 'Phoenix' with Pedro the Lion

With his return to Pedro the Lion, David Bazan searches for true self by reckoning with his past on this return to form that is Phoenix.

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Buke and Gase Continue their Genre-Defying Education on 'Scholars'

Scholars finds New York duo Buke and Gase once again pushing categorical boundaries within their unique experimental pop identity.

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Buzzcocks' 'Love Bites' Is an Uneven, But Worthwhile, Listen

Although the Buzzcocks were a singles band, their overlooked second album, Love Bites (1978), is still a solid effort, and it sounds better than ever on this reissue.

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Toro y Moi Contemplates Late Capitalism on 'Outer Peace'

Esteemed producer Toro y Moi takes on new, funkier sounds with Outer Peace, but none of them quite transcend the overblown promise of his early chillwave fame.

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Frances Cone Awakens with Resourceful Confessions on 'Late Riser'

Whether brooding and ghostly or defiant, eclectic, and rambunctious, Frances Cone's Late Riser is filled with melodious poeticisms and gripping arrangements.

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Dave Douglas Quintet's 'Brazen Heart: Live at Jazz Standard' Sits Cozily Next to Miles Davis' 'Plugged Nickel' Recordings

This is trumpeter/composer Dave Douglas' second quintet, playing its repertoire from memory in eight sets in four nights. Dazzling.

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'It Won/t Be Like This All the Time' Is the Album the Twilight Sad Was Destined to Make

The Twilight Sad's It Won/t Be Like This All the Time is like all of us. It's bruised, lonely, confused yet hopeful. It feels more important than a collection of songs on a spinning disc.

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Oneohtrix Point Never's 'Love in the Time of Lexapro' Is a Brief, Pleasant Aside

Oneohtrix Point Never's latest EP Love in the Time of Lexapro supplements his prior 2018 full-length Age Of, with a small collection of exclusives and collaborative reworks.

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The 1975 Try Everything on 'A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships'

A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships ends up being a middling mess of genre-hopping. The 1975 decided to try a bit of everything and the results are just completely scattershot songs.

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Deerhunter Ask 'Why Hasn't Everything Already Disappeared?'

Deerhunter's eighth studio album wrestles with escapist and confrontational impulses, and continues their exploration of shifting sonic identity.

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Whitehorse Returns with a New Addition to 'The Northern South'

These are six songs from the past, but Whitehorse revive them through their alternative instrumental contributions and their inventive vocals.

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'Springsteen on Broadway' Is Springsteen Fully Owning the Myth of the Working Class Hero

Springsteen on Broadway is a powerful audio document of Bruce Springsteen's 14 month one-man performance run at Broadway's Walter Kerr Theater.

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