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Dirty Projectors

Lamp Lit Prose

Pop/Rock

After a downbeat breakup album, David Longstreth and company deliver a challenging but joyous celebratory effort.

- Mark Deming
Deafheaven

Ordinary Corrupt Human Love

Pop/Rock

After a three years, the California quintet sounds refreshed and renewed on their most musically ambitious release to date.

- Thom Jurek
Cowboy Junkies

All That Reckoning

Pop/Rock

More darkly beautiful songs of love, chaos, and uncertainty from Toronto's alternative rock veterans.

- Mark Deming

The Jayhawks

Back Roads and Abandoned Motels

Pop/Rock, Country

Gary Louris and his bandmates bring a fine, familiar sound to songs he primarily wrote for other artists.

- Mark Deming
Tanukichan

Sundays

Pop/Rock

Winning shoegaze-meets-dream-pop debut from former Trails and Ways guitarist with an assist from Chaz of Toro y Moi.

- Tim Sendra
Rayland Baxter

Wide Awake

Pop/Rock

The Nashville native's excellent third LP mixes tightly crafted guitar pop with laid-back charm while exploring human behavior in modern America.

- Timothy Monger

Body/Head

The Switch

Pop/Rock

The duo's heavy, expansive second album is some of its most emotionally eloquent music.

- Heather Phares
Luluc

Sculptor

Pop/Rock

The Australian folk duo turn a bold corner on their more cinematic and neatly crafted third album.

- Timothy Monger
Lotic

Power

Electronic, Rap

The Berlin-based artist's long-awaited debut album confronts racism and gender conformity while standing strong and fearless.

- Paul Simpson

Alexander "Skip" Spence, fresh out of Moby Grape and a stay in a psychiatric hospital, spent six days in a Nashville studio in late 1968 and and created a beautifully damaged masterpiece for the ages. Oar doesn't rock like Spence's best work with Moby Grape, but his spectral melodies and rough but emphatic vocals are stellar, and this album is freak folk that's sometimes harrowing but frequently sublime; it's all but tragic that he never made another.

- Mark Deming

The Isley Brothers

The Heat Is On

June, 1975

Funk

This was the third album the Isleys recorded with their 3 + 3 lineup, which really perfected its attractive soul/rock sound with the the sweaty funk classic "Fight the Power," the sexy slow jam "For the Love of You," and caressing ballads "Make Me Say It Again Girl" and "Sensuality." Superb from start to finish, The Heat Is On is among the Isleys' most essential albums.

- Alex Henderson

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