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Grandaddy, “Sumday: Excess Baggage”

This new collection of B-sides from the Modesto group’s 2003 LP reexamines the prophetic promise of the crumbling computer age that the original album showcased so well.

August 23, 2023
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Joni Mitchell, “At Newport”

Recorded last summer at the annual event in Rhode Island, the Canadian-American songwriting icon’s first live set in two decades showcases her infectious performance personality.

July 27, 2023
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Lindstrøm, “Everyone Else Is a Stranger”

The Norwegian producer’s sixth album finds him jettisoning his slow-orbit jams of the past for propulsive beats and a lighter production mix.

July 12, 2023
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Sigur Rós, “ÁTTA”

With the help of a 41-piece orchestra, this demure-yet-dazzling eighth LP is more intimate in scope when compared to the Icelandic band’s yawning post-rock discography.

June 16, 2023
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Killer Mike, “Michael”

The Atlanta emcee leans into gospel and soul influences on his first LP since co-founding the more electronic-infused Run the Jewels a decade ago.

June 15, 2023
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The Flaming Lips, “Hypnotist”

This Yoshimi-era EP of fan-favorite demos is a warm piece of rock mythos finally made available to collectors as a cotton-candy pink curio.

June 14, 2023
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Paul Simon, “Seven Psalms”

Birthed from dreams and the Biblical book of Psalms, the nocturnal characteristics of Simon’s new 33-minute acoustic tone poem are another fork in the path for the songwriter.

May 18, 2023
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Califone, “Villagers”

Tim Rutili’s eighth album under the moniker spans a wide thematic landscape like a good short story collection, digging into the same experimental-folk loam he’s sifted through since the mid-’90s.

May 17, 2023
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Animal Collective, “Spirit They’re Gone, Spirit They’ve Vanished” [Remastered 2023]

The reissue features crisp remastered audio and an intriguing bonus EP to complement this moonless fairy tale of chiming alien transmissions and chamber-folk malice.

May 10, 2023
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The National, “First Two Pages of Frankenstein”

The steadfast indie rock group’s production toolbox is fully refined on their ninth effort, providing more surprises in the melodic trap doors between tender and somber.

April 26, 2023
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Feist, “Multitudes”

The Canadian songwriter continues to play a series of wild cards on her sixth album, which mostly lives up to its name.

April 14, 2023
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The New Pornographers, “Continue as a Guest”

The Canadian group’s ninth album builds off the adventurous power-pop sound floating around its predecessor while zooming in on themes of isolation and emotional upheaval.

March 30, 2023
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boygenius, “the record”

The songwriter supergroup’s full-length debut screams out its manic heartaches and unrolls stories with a quiet resonance—and just plain rips as an indie-rock record.

March 29, 2023
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Caroline Polachek, “Desire, I Want to Turn Into You”

These 12 tracks all point back to a pop artist not afraid to take some wild swings on her second album for her given name.

February 14, 2023
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Black Belt Eagle Scout, “The Land, the Water, the Sky”

Katherine Paul finds a new sense of space within Swinomish traditional pow-wow music on her fourth LP as she explores themes of homecomings and reawakenings of mind and soul.

February 09, 2023
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Andy Shauf, “Norm”

On his sixth album, the Saskatchewan-born songwriter continues to stub out his standby concepts of interpersonal trauma like used cigarettes.

February 08, 2023
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Fucked Up, “One Day”

The Toronto hardcore-punk ensemble’s sixth album is the sound of restraining a powerful creative behemoth that wants to rip through the walls at any minute.

January 25, 2023
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Margo Price, “Strays”

The songwriter’s fourth album is quite a desert trek, visiting longtime landmarks of country, rock, honky-tonk melodrama, and ’70s psychedelics along the way.

January 11, 2023
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Taken by Trees, “Another Year”

Victoria Bergsman’s incomparable alto range is the central draw for this wintery five-song collection of Colin Blunstone covers pulling from The Zombies frontman’s first two solo albums.

December 07, 2022
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Paul McCartney, “The 7″ Singles Box”

This limited-release singles collection housed in a wooden packing crate showcases a celebrated musician who didn’t rest on his laurels after The Beatles came to a formalized end.

December 05, 2022
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