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- Goat Girl
On All Fours
Equipped with whirlpooling guitars and a newfound supply of silvery electronics, the South London band chronicles anxiety and ennui in songs full of spine-tingling dissonance.
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- Ozuna
Los Dioses
Two Latin-trap stars join forces for a slickly produced and familiar-sounding Watch the Throne-style joint album.
- Midnight Sister
Painting the Roses
Melding disco extravagance with Old Hollywood glamour, the Los Angeles duo’s lush, shape-shifting glam rock transcends pastiche with theatrical flair.
- Yvette Janine Jackson
Freedom
In a pair of electroacoustic radio operas, the American composer addresses the horrors of the Middle Passage and the moral equivocations of the contemporary church.
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