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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

An organic procession from last year’s GRIP, the alt-R&B artist brings more questions of intimacy to six new tracks in addition to reworking three cuts from SEQUEL’s predecessor for maximum sensuality.

Filmmaker Eva Aridjis Fuentes tells us about tracking down the enigmatic “Goodbye Horses” singer for her new doc on the late songwriter’s “many lives.”

Celebrating 30 years of these stark live recordings with lo-fi pop covers from the likes of Current Joys, Casino Hearts, and Brad Stank, this comp overlooks most of the release’s key tracks.

The producer-director talks working with Questlove on the new Sly Lives! documentary, as well as starting production on his yet untitled directorial debut about the late J Dilla.

This 14-CD collection remastering the legendary bass-baritone vocalist, stentorian actor, and civil rights advocate’s work is a crucial cultural tome of both spiritual and earthly sensuality.