The 21 Best Album Re-Issues of 2018

In 2018, the music world saw amazing reissues spanning rock titans to indie upstarts and electronic to pop of all stripes.

                                      
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        The Posies Finally Land the One That Got Away with 'Amazing Disgrace'
    
Ian Rushbury

    26 Nov 2018

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        The Posies Redefined Themselves on 'Frosting on the Beater'
    
Ian King

    24 Aug 2018

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        'Dear 23': The Posies' First Awkward Leap into the Stratosphere
    
Kevin Korber

    29 Jun 2018

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The talented new singer-songwriter chatted with PopMatters about his affinity for storytelling and collecting keyboards, and what inspired his debut LP, a collection of power pop songs that shine from Chicago to Charlotte.

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The Disciplines: Virgins of Menace

The songs on Virgins of Menace are good, the sort of pop pleasures that we like, but not the sort of pop perfection that we cherish. Will we remember it in 20 years time?

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Jon Auer: Songs from the Year of Our Demise

Posies co-frontman finally drops his much-delayed solo debut, the best thing he's done in a decade or so, with the hoped-for lovely melodies and incisive lyrics. The frosting's back on the beater.

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The Posies Finally Land the One That Got Away with 'Amazing Disgrace'

The Posies Redefined Themselves on 'Frosting on the Beater'

'Dear 23': The Posies' First Awkward Leap into the Stratosphere

The Posies - "Squirrel vs Snake" (Singles Going Steady)

Back with their first album in six years, the Posies are the power-popsters who make it all seem easy.

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Technicolor Revelations: A Conversation with Jon Lindsay

The talented new singer-songwriter chatted with PopMatters about his affinity for storytelling and collecting keyboards, and what inspired his debut LP, a collection of power pop songs that shine from Chicago to Charlotte.

The Disciplines: Virgins of Menace

The songs on Virgins of Menace are good, the sort of pop pleasures that we like, but not the sort of pop perfection that we cherish. Will we remember it in 20 years time?

Jon Auer: Songs from the Year of Our Demise

Posies co-frontman finally drops his much-delayed solo debut, the best thing he's done in a decade or so, with the hoped-for lovely melodies and incisive lyrics. The frosting's back on the beater.

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Back with their first album in six years, the Posies are the power-popsters who make it all seem easy.

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The talented new singer-songwriter chatted with PopMatters about his affinity for storytelling and collecting keyboards, and what inspired his debut LP, a collection of power pop songs that shine from Chicago to Charlotte.

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Posies co-frontman finally drops his much-delayed solo debut, the best thing he's done in a decade or so, with the hoped-for lovely melodies and incisive lyrics. The frosting's back on the beater.