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Sarah Mary Chadwick, “Take Me Out to a Bar / What Am I, Gatsby?”

The deep crevices of profound dependence live within the Melbourne-based songwriter’s every word and melody throughout her grayly comic and experimentally recorded ninth album.

April 21, 2025
Art & CultureFilm + TV
The Liberation of Yoko Ono

Biographer David Sheff and documentarian Kevin Macdonald discuss working to set their mutual subject free from the misogyny and misinformation of her Beatles-damning past.

April 21, 2025
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Neil Young, “Coastal: The Soundtrack”

Documenting his 2023 tour, Young’s umpteenth live album both simplifies the noise of Crazy Horse’s recent recordings and solidly renders familiar hits in a solo setting.

April 18, 2025
Reviews
Adrian Younge, “Something About April III”

The third and final installment of his vintage psych-soul trilogy sees the songwriter bring the large history of Brazil into a tight narrative revolving around young love and class struggle.

April 18, 2025
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Nell Smith, “Anxious”

The teen songwriter’s posthumous debut is as goofy, sinister, and sing-song-y as you might expect from someone who worked closely with Wayne Coyne at an impressionable age.

April 16, 2025
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Anika, “Abyss”

On her third LP, the Berlin-via-UK songwriter rediscovers her roots as a lyricist and as a vocalist within the roomy ambience that the finest moments of the record provide.

April 15, 2025
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Röyksopp, “True Electric”

With the help of guest vocalists including Robyn, Fever Ray, and Alison Goldfrapp, these clubby studio versions of the Norwegian duo’s recent live set push them further into the flame.

April 11, 2025
FLOOD’s Guide to Record Store Day April 2025: Gorillaz, Françoise Hardy, Omar Apollo, and More

From multi-album boxes from Sun Ra, Prince, and Warren Zevon to live Gracie Abrams vinyl and RSD 2025 Ambassador Post Malone doing Nirvana—here’s the best of this spring’s crop.

April 09, 2025
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Bryan Ferry & Amelia Barratt, “Loose Talk”

This ghostly collaborative album with spoken-word artist Barratt finds the Roxy Music leader digging his own crates for old demos and warped melodies that went unused until now.

March 26, 2025
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De La Soul, “The Grind Date” [20th Anniversary Edition]

Revisiting their mean, lean follow-up to their ill-fated AOI trilogy, this anniversary package features winning never-before-heard oddities and bone-stripped instrumentals for the DJ elite.

March 25, 2025
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Kraftwerk, “Autobahn” [50th Anniversary Edition]

Cleaned up with a new Dolby Atmos mix, Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider’s first foray into pure electronics is still recondite and abstruse (and louder) without sounding superficial.

March 24, 2025
Connecting the Dots with NEU!’s Michael Rother

The German music innovator discusses his journey from playing in the original iteration of Kraftwerk to bringing live sounds to Los Angeles’ Intuition Festival this weekend at The Broad.

March 18, 2025
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Neal Francis, “Return to Zero”

The Chicago-based soul artist finds the funk in digitized-disco on his third album, radiating a glow only known to those who live life on illuminated dance floors.

March 17, 2025
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Kronos Quartet + Mary Kouyoumdjian, “Witness”

Recorded in remembrance of the victims of the Armenian genocide, the quartet’s work with the documentarian-composer is at turns gorgeous, brutal, and awe-stricken.

March 14, 2025
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Hamilton Leithauser, “This Side of the Island”

The Walkmen vocalist finds an exquisite balance of raspy, lounge-lizard crooning and angsty art-rocking on a solo album full of distressed lyricism and black humor.

March 10, 2025
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Lady Gaga, “Mayhem”

The pop star’s latest album is chaotic by design, blending elements from across her career to craft something you can dance to, swoon with, and don black eyeshadow for.

March 10, 2025
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Rufus Wainwright, “Dream Requiem”

Written in dedication to the smoldering spirits of Verdi and Puccini and the bleak words of Byron, the songwriter’s Requiem-Mass dirge doomily portrays death’s gutting solitude.

March 03, 2025
Essay
Funky, But Chic: David Johansen 1950-2025

Remembering the trailblazing New York Dolls singer, who passed away Friday at the age of 75.

March 03, 2025
Reviews
Kendall Jane Meade, “Space”

On her solo debut, the Mascott songwriter carries on the tradition of vow-busting break-up albums with lush and folky new components added to her band’s indie-pop sound.

February 28, 2025
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Panda Bear, “Sinister Grift”

Replacing sequenced mechanical instrumentation for blunter analog rhythms, Noah Lennox tunes his ears to the charts on his latest release, which is anything but sinister.

February 27, 2025
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