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Draw Down the Moon
The St. Louis band’s fourth album scrapes away their unwieldy experimentalism in favor of the approachable, frustratingly anonymous sounds of 2010s festival rock.
- Abstract Mindstate
Dreams Still Inspire
Guided by detailed coaching from Kanye West, the Chicago duo embrace an urge to restore a kind of lyrical conscious rap that has never been lost.
- Walt McClements
A Hole in the Fence
Taken individually, the pieces on this album from the Los Angeles-based accordion player can be moving, but their similar construction yields transcendence and tedium in equal measure.
- Equiknoxx
Basic Tools
The Kingston-based dancehall crew’s fourth album presents a world of inside jokes and outsize characters set to slyly experimental beats that show exacting attention to detail.
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