Sparks - The Girl Is Crying in Her Latte Music Album Reviews

The Mael siblings are enjoying some real success. Their 26th collection finds some kind of harmony of silly tune, tangled course of action,...

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Bill Orcutt - Jump on It Music Album Reviews

On his first solo acoustic outing in a decade, the former Harry Pussy member shifts from deconstructing the guitar to reassembling it accor...

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Deerhoof - Miracle-Level Music Album Reviews

Recorded in single takes with minimal overdubs, the San Francisco band’s latest album—its first sung entirely in Satomi Matsuzaki’s native ...

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Lia Kohl - The Ceiling Reposes Music Album Reviews

The Chicago cellist duets with scraps of radio and field recordings on her bold and strangely moving second record. What is it about a scra...

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Godcaster - Godcaster Music Album Reviews

The Brooklyn art-rock band continues to be proudly over the top on its relentless and theatrical second album. For Godcaster, everything ha...

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Kevin Beasley - A View of a Landscape Music Album Reviews

L’Rain, Jlin, Kelsey Lu, Jason Moran, and more join the sculptor and sound artist for a meditation on the complex histories evoked by the a...

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Joe Westerlund - Elegies for the Drift Music Album Reviews

The former Megafaun drummer uses a resonant, melodic palette of gamelan, thumb piano, and metallophones to achieve gemlike tones and ambien...

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Morgan Garrett - Extreme Fantasy Music Album Reviews

The Philadelphia-based artist uses damaged acoustic guitars, piercing electronics, and unsettling vocals to construct a grotesque and herme...

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Kate NV - WOW Music Album Reviews

The Russian electronic musician’s latest album turns pointillist quirks into erratic maximalism—call it pop music for people who enjoy both...

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Nyokabi Kariũki - FEELING BODY Music Album Reviews

On her debut album, the Kenyan composer folds field recordings, ambient textures, and layered vocalizations into a gripping meditation on i...

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Katrina Krimsky - 1980 Music Album Reviews

These unearthed recordings of an early solo piano performance showcase the composer’s ecstatic approach to melody and repetition. Katrina K...

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Young Fathers - Heavy Heavy Music Album Reviews

Defined by small acts of joyful resistance, the Edinburgh group’s fourth album is a celebration of music as shared and spontaneous practice...

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Ruhail Qaisar - Fatima Music Album Reviews

A psychogeographic survey of the Himalayan region of Ladakh rendered in ambient drones and harsh noise, Fatima doubles as an uneasy chronic...

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Strategy - Graffiti in Space Music Album Reviews

Turning his ear for imperfection toward dub techno, versatile producer Paul Dickow turns out six tracks that conceal worlds of activity und...

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Kali Malone - Does Spring Hide Its Joy Music Album Reviews

Presented as a sprawling three-hour epic, the composer’s drone piece for guitar, cello, and sine wave oscillators seeks new rhythms within ...

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Mette Henriette - Drifting Music Album Reviews

With pianist Johan Lindvall and cellist Judith Hamann, saxophonist and composer Mette Henriette presents hushed, repetitive meditations unb...

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Sebastian Rochford / Kit Downes - A Short Diary Music Album Reviews

On a set inspired by his father’s death, jazz drummer Sebastian Rochford enlists pianist Kit Downes, a longtime collaborator, to help him t...

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Ryuichi Sakamoto - 12 Music Album Reviews

In a dozen somber, elegiac pieces for piano and electronics recorded in the wake of a cancer diagnosis, the Japanese composer reckons with ...

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Oliver Coates - Aftersun (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Music Album Reviews

The composer and cellist’s score for Charlotte Wells’ film is full of suggestion and shadows, wringing emotion from the lightest touches. I...

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Lil B - Afrikantis Music Album Reviews

This is Lil B’s most head-turning proposition in years: an avant-garde electro-jazz album seemingly recorded with the cheapest MIDI presets...

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