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June 30, 2017Shawn Carter's contrite and concise 13th studio album, produced by No I.D. with soulful finesse.
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July 7, 2017A dense, soul-searching blast of civic-minded indie rock/alt-pop comfort food.
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July 7, 2017This double-disc package offers painstaking mono remasters of Nyro's enduring first two albums and contains the artist's versions of many of the songs that established her.
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July 7, 2017Recorded from 1969 to 1971, 22 rare tracks offer a look at what the underappreciated pop genius was doing before Big Star.
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July 7, 2017Turning away from the expansive power pop of What For?, this is a chilly batch of introspective post-R&B; ballads, lightened by the occasional electro-funk jam.
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July 14, 2017By turns thunderous and moody, the London power trio's fifth album is their toughest and most immediate-sounding to date.
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July 7, 2017The English singer/songwriter's exquisite third studio LP is a welcome return to a more acoustic palette.
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July 7, 2017Low-key album of minimalist space disco from eclectic Norwegian producers Bjørn Torske and Prins Thomas.
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July 14, 2017The debut collaboration between the Decemberists and Olivia Chaney is as committed a piece of retro-leaning English folk-rock as one could hope for.
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July 14, 2017Canadian country traditionalist chucks the spurs in favor of a classic Tin Pan Alley pop approach.
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July 21, 2017Warts-and-all live album from the veteran new wave act shows they still have plenty of scrappy energy left in them.
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July 7, 2017Plunderphonic pop group Public Service Broadcasting integrate more vocals and acoustic instruments into their sample-heavy sound on their third album.
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July 7, 2017Double album from the veteran heavy-mongers is one-half muscular heavy rock, one-half experimental noise collages.
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July 7, 2017The singer and band deliver greasy, exotic, rootsy tunes as if performing live on the other side of midnight, where anything can happen.
The Rough Dancer and the Cyclical Night (Tango Apasionado)
1993
Retaining producer Kip Hanrahan from the classic Tango: Zero Hour sessions, this set offers more whimsy; the often perilous shifts in tempo and mood are handled more smoothly here. Perhaps this is because this piece was used for the musical production Tango Apasionado, which chronicles the history of the tango. Nonetheless, this is essential for the maestro's fans, and tango lovers in general.
August 25, 2016
The second EP from the Long Beach rapper is a concise and intense ride that combines his uncomfortably honest inner ruminations with wider social issues relevant to being a black man in America. Head straight for "War Ready" and the sobering slice of vulnerability, "Smile." An essential snapshot of 2016 that bears witness to the evolution of an artist coming into his own with an unflinching, socially conscious perspective.
