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KRM / KMRU
The pair’s debut collaboration is an amorphous, droning flood that sounds like the advent of the end times. In its hopeless sound world lies a poignant condemnation of colonial violence.
Resort
Skee Mask
Byran Müller’s latest LP plays like a guided tour of his catalog. It’s some of his warmest and most inviting music to date.
Big for You
Zsela
The singer’s debut album is an intimate, soulful project that spotlights her versatile voice and the experimental touches that give the album its unique texture.
As It Ever Was, So It Will Be Again
The Decemberists
On their first new album in six years, the folk troubadours balance out-of-time balladry with a mature sensibility that’s attuned to melancholy and mortality in the present.
The Tortured Poets Department / The Anthology
Taylor SwiftIn standard and extended editions, Taylor Swift’s 11th studio album races to fill the gap between her intimate songwriting and her increasingly outsized persona. It’s unruly, unedited, and even a little tortured.F.U.N. T.O.Y.
SideshowThe L.A. rapper’s dead-eyed hustler tales are grimier and druggier than ever. It’s a harsh toke, but the crackling production gives it the energy it needs.Here in the Pitch
Jessica PrattBest New AlbumJessica Pratt’s fourth album of hypnagogic folk music hones her mysterious song to its finest point.Where I’ve Been, Isn’t Where I’m Going
ShaboozeyAfter a decade of searching for the intersection of hip-hop and country and a star turn on Cowboy Carter, the Virginia-born singer finds much more than a party on his third album.
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