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- Jlin
Black Origami
The sophomore album from the brilliant producer turns the tools of footwork into an overwhelming piece of musical architecture, an epic treatise on where rhythm comes from and where it can go.
- Tigers Jaw
spin
The new album from Tigers Jaw is their major label debut, but it’s also the debut of a major label, as the first release on producer Will Yip’s new Atlantic imprint Black Cement.
- Land of Talk
Life After Youth
After a seven year pause, Elizabeth Powell’s new album as Land of Talk still sounds like a direct line to her consciousness, full of unpredictable songwriting twists and poetically opaque lyrics.
- MC Bin Laden
É Grau EP
The baile funk artist known as MC Bin Laden is becoming a real-deal pop star in his native Brazil. His first U.S. release collects his biggest hits from the last three years, and shows why.
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