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Dev Hynes’ guest-filled yet distinctly lonely first album in seven years takes his usual complex arrangements, epic electronica, and intricate melody-making and pushes them into the red.

For every tender moment on the country artist’s fifth album there’s one of wind-blow abandon, a yin and yang that complements her split allegiance to the genre’s rich history and the present day.

Chris Smith’s film about the new wave icons possesses a sentimentality largely missing from the band’s 50-year career.

The electronic songwriter discusses her second solo LP, going independent, and the influence of her anomalous body of work on younger generations of pop stars.

Each member’s strengths are on high alert, making the alt-metal band’s thrashing and highly imaginative 10th album a thing of brutal beauty.

The songwriter’s intimately recorded latest LP is a simple affair where humor and bluntness roam freely and his typical experimentation hardly obscures the beauty of his songwriting craft.

The edgy but earnest Indonesian-American rapper further leans into his identity on his first album in six years, welcoming a variety of guests on his trek through self-actualization.

Ethan Silverman’s new documentary celebrates the glam-rock icon and the ever-growing legacy he left behind.

Reissued for the first time in this six-CD box set are the British singer’s original Decca albums, along with a double LP of singles, B-sides, and rarities from the era.

The pop star’s big voice and actorly prowess help convince us that the choppy, Sapphic-punkish pop and curt, self-reproaching snipe of her second LP burrow deep into her soul.

On their fifth proper LP, Ruby da Cherry and Scrim’s usually dense, trap-imbued soundscapes are open and airier, leaving more room for the duo and their guests to misery-wallow within.

A companion to her 1998 downtempo LP Ray of Light, this collection is a series of fresh, future-forward edits, remixes, and demo tracks meant to expand the vision of the original album.

Meant to tell a deeper story behind the songwriter’s 1969 debut, each demo, outtake, and alternate version on this 4-LP set radiates the piecemeal feel of a novice grasping his way through a new endeavor.

The band’s first album with Brian Eno is a portrait of two ecosystems learning each other’s ways, with this box set’s exclusive rarities further revealing the collaboration’s inner workings.

Extended to a two-album set, this anniversary remastering of Elliott Smith and Neil Gust’s post-hardcore band’s third and final statement features unreleased songs and demos.

This unearthed 1967 live gig from Redwood City, California features raw, soulful R&B covers recorded with a roomful of memorable voices that audiences would soon grow to love.

A follow-up to last fall’s full-length, this four-song EP sees the London-based songwriter strengthening her case for pop-chart status while continuing to prove that that’s not her goal.

The drummer and Mantra of the Cosmos co-founder riffs about recent collaborators Noel Gallagher, Sean Lennon, and James McCartney, his standing with The Who, and more.

This second solo LP moves further into the Raincoats co-founder’s melodic mix of dub-rock, neo-jazz, skeletal R&B, and space-pop as she continues to eschew creature comforts.

The pop star retains the tainted-love throb of electro rhythm on a fourth LP that’s high on affection, low on gloss, and geared toward transcendence and sneaky sexuality.