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Meshell Ndegeocello, “No More Water: The Gospel of James Baldwin”

This 75-minute opus pays tribute to Baldwin’s righteous witness, applying his moral and spiritual rigor to Black experience in contemporary America with big ideas and vivid emotions.

August 05, 2024
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Shabaka, “Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace”

The prodigious jazz band leader shifts from kinetic energy to meditative tranquility as he puts down the sax on a solo release that’s somehow both calming and jarring.

April 12, 2024
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Tierra Whack, “World Wide Whack”

The celebrated Philadelphia rapper’s debut full-length is made up of masterpieces in miniature—two- to three-minute songs intimate in their scope and spare in their production.

March 15, 2024
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Jamila Woods, “Water Made Us”

Exposure is the dominant mode on the Chicago-based songwriter’s latest, in which her language feels more carefully chiseled, more focused and impactful than ever before.

October 11, 2023
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Olivia Rodrigo, “GUTS”

Beyond being wiser than her debut, this sophomore LP is also sharper, meaner, funnier, more assured, more pleasurable, and more persuasive that Rodrigo is operating on a plane of her own.

September 12, 2023
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Jon Batiste, “World Music Radio”

Coalescing disparate genres, generations, and value systems into a big-tent pop blockbuster, Batiste’s latest streamlines musical and ideological sophistication into an LP designed for mass appeal.

August 16, 2023
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Makaya McCraven, “In These Times”

The jazz fusionist plays to his strengths as a sample-based thinker and collage artist while also showing how he can wrestle his micro-moments into long-form works.

September 28, 2022
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The Linda Lindas, “Growing Up”

The teen punks’ debut is a set of sturdily constructed songs that blur the line between bubblegum tunefulness, power pop crunch, and punk abandon.

April 11, 2022
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Kacey Musgraves, “star-crossed”

Kacey’s latest feels like several types of divorce album spliced together, at once messy, conflicted, and purposeful.

September 09, 2021
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Sons of Kemet, “Black to the Future”

The jazz collective’s fourth album is first and foremost a dance record, bruising, visceral, and thrilling in its physicality.

May 18, 2021
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Jimbo Mathus & Andrew Bird, “These 13”

Bird reconnects with his Squirrel Nut Zippers associate Mathus for the most straightforwardly old-timey music he’s made since the late ’90s.

March 09, 2021
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Paul McCartney, “McCartney III”

The latest from Sir Paul is warm, inviting, a little weird, persistently tuneful, endearingly merry.

December 22, 2020
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Laraaji, “Moon Piano”

“Moon Piano” creates an environment that emanates tranquility without ever overstepping its bounds.

October 09, 2020
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Margo Price, “That’s How Rumors Get Started”

“Rumors” may seem almost like a deliberate provocation of the country purists.

July 09, 2020
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HAIM, “Women in Music Pt. III”

HAIM has always made their music sound effortless, but here they sound genuinely unencumbered.

June 24, 2020
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Hayley Williams, “Petals for Armor”

On “Petals for Armor” Williams is in full blossom, telling her story without requiring our permission.

May 12, 2020
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The Staple Singers, “Come Go With Me: The Stax Collection”

Looking for a consolidated history of soul music in one handy package?

February 24, 2020
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Son Little, “aloha”

The narrative behind Aaron Livingston’s third full-length as Son Little is one of relinquished control.

January 27, 2020
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Beck, “Hyperspace”

It’s not exactly a Beck album without precedent; but maybe at this point, that’s asking too much.

November 18, 2019
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The Roots, “Things Fall Apart” 20th Anniversary Reissue

A record that still “sparks shit” today.

September 24, 2019
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