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May 27, 2014The singer's first proper studio album since 2009 is deeply nostalgic and scattered, highlighted by collaborations with Miguel and Mike WiLL Made-It.
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May 27, 2014Inventive arrangements and daring leaps of style make this indie singer/songwriter's fourth album a triumph.
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May 26, 2014The longtime collaborators reunite for a mini-album of electronic pop that's as playful and sophisticated as their best work on their own.
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May 26, 2014Featuring an all-new cast of vocalists, including John Grant, Andy Butler and company's third album is muscular and stripped down.
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May 26, 2014Rather than capitalize on his major hits with Disclosure and Naughty Boy, the unique singer and songwriter debuts with heartbroken balladry.
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May 27, 2014The British X Factor diva's sophomore album of swaggering, infectious pop.
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May 27, 2014On their debut album together, Dee Dee of Dum Dum Girls and Brandon of Crocodiles make beautiful music of a hazy and noisy nature.
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May 27, 2014On their sophomore duet outing, this husband and wife deliver a soulful take on traditional (not retro) country music.
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May 27, 2014Composed in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, this dark, menacing set is the enigmatic composer's masterpiece thus far.
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May 27, 2014Second album from these fiery Alabama rockers wins points for songs and energy, but loses them for ragged production.
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May 27, 2014With Robert Glasper as co-producer, the youngest son of Fela Kuti delivers an incendiary, angry, innovative new phase in Afrobeat.
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May 27, 2014Pallett's fourth long-player exists somewhere in between the sugary opulence of Kishi Bashi and the chilly refinement of Homogenic-era Björk.
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May 27, 2014Fifth album from these hardcore purists is impressively furious, but is troublingly short on effective songs and vocals.
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May 27, 2014Debut album from instrumental hip-hop producer that follows in the footsteps of some of the greats of the genre.
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AllMusic Staff Picks
November, 1994
While it won't get as much 20th anniversary love as Dookie or The Downward Spiral, this is still one of 1994's cult classics. Brainiac's combustive, new wave-damaged noise-rock sounds even more flexible and dynamic than it did on Smack Bunny Baby, with herky-jerky riffs and rhythms and Timmy Taylor's outlandish vocals coalescing into something suspiciously, and surprisingly, like hooks. Two decades later, these songs are as brash and weird as ever.
September 18, 2007
Get lucky and you might find Percee P selling his mixtapes outside of NYC's Fat Beats record store, but the bad news about the man's quaint distro model is that he only has one official album in his discography. Still, it's a monster as 2007's Perseverance was exclusively produced by Madlib, plus the guest list (Vinnie Paz to Charlie 2na) is as diverse as the sample sources (Donald Byrd to Van der Graaf Generator).
Jesse Winchester/Third Down, 110 to Go
April 30, 2012
One of the best songwriters of the 1960s and early '70s, Jesse Winchester would have been as well known and regarded as any of these had history not swept him from Louisiana, where he was born, to Montreal, Canada, where he took up residence in exile to avoid the Vietnam War. Winchester began writing songs that were sparse, elegant, personal, and somehow also fascinatingly allusive and elusive, all filled with a kind of exhausted yearning for home, place, and identity. This set combines his first two albums in one package, and taken together, they show a compelling and unique songwriter, graceful and intelligent, with a sharp eye for detail and melody.