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September 30, 2013Evocative, elusive debut from the gothic pop teenage singer/songwriter.
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September 30, 2013The Bud Light Platinum creative director's second album in less than seven months is as sprawling as -- and more uneven than -- the first.
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October 1, 2013Featuring vocal showcases for Mark Lanegan, Wayne Coyne, Skylar Grey, and Cold Specks, this is Moby's most powerful album in several years.
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September 30, 2013Nicki Minaj, 2 Chainz, Pharrell, and many others join the rapper on this mixed bag of an album.
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September 30, 2013Jett recaptures the sound and energy of her early work on this thrilling and thoughtful rock & roll gem.
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September 30, 2013Pacific Northwest-kissed countrypolitan BBQ pit jams abound on the band's seventh long-player and first for Vagrant Records.
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September 30, 2013The trio's debut puts such an engaging spin on its mainstream '80s and '90s pop influences that it could be a greatest-hits album.
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October 1, 2013Seven years after Paper Television's breakthrough, Khaela Maricich returns with a set of arch indie electro.
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October 1, 2013Dr. Dog deliver their most soulful album to date on their eighth full-length, B-Room.
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September 30, 2013Trading drones for pointillistic sampling, Daniel Lopatin's Warp debut is dizzying and often beautiful.
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October 1, 2013On their sixth album overall and second since reuniting after a 12-year absence, math rock pioneers sound at home in their unchanging vision.
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October 1, 2013Quasi celebrate their 20th anniversary with a sprawling album that explores the Portland duo's entire career.
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October 1, 2013Not as bleak as its cover and title indicate, Axel Willner's fourth Field album is very familiar sounding but occasionally brilliant.
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October 1, 2013No surprises on this collection of covers but it's satisfying all the same.
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AllMusic Staff Picks
September 16, 2013
Though MGMT have worked with Dave Fridmann in the past, the band's daring third album finds them in a better place artistically to work with the sonic auteur. Making use of the spaciousness Fridmann is so adept at capturing, MGMT's eponymous offering shows a band that has grown increasingly confident in their experiments with glammy, spaced out pop.
September, 2013
Recording at Oz Fritz’s California studio, this Flemish threesome proves to be one of the finest creative jazz piano trios anywhere, even while accompanying an audio snippet from a Tarkovsky film, dodging Space Invaders laser cannon, and having their session rudely interrupted by cellphone calls.
March 11, 1997
This stark and haunting album documents Buckner's heartache through darkened rooms and dusty midnight backroads. Orchestrated sparsely by acoustic instruments and unconventional arrangements, Devotion + Doubt hums and thrums through my speakers each autumn.