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September 25, 2015The trio follows its massively successful debut with more rousing, expertly crafted synth-pop.
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September 25, 2015Several chart-topping vocalists make contributions, but the lower-profile guests truly elevate the Lawrence brothers' second album.
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September 25, 2015The band's ninth album -- its first for Mute and first without bassist Peter Hook -- is a dance music-dominated affair.
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September 25, 2015The Eagles founder returns to his country-rock roots on this star-studded record named after his Texas home.
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September 25, 2015After a five-year hiatus, the supergroup delivers its most compelling, exciting album yet.
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September 25, 2015A welcome return to form, the producer's ninth studio effort features smooth house and innovative production touches.
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September 25, 2015Fourth album from the L.A. indie rockers nudges the emphasis from guitars to keyboards, though the sound is still big.
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September 25, 2015The singer/songwriter trades electric guitars for acoustics, banjos, and pianos, whittling away excess while retaining eccentricity.
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September 25, 2015The MC behind the smash hit "Trap Queen" keeps it real on this unrefined and exciting debut.
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September 25, 2015The band's seventh album is another psych-folk-pop gem that focuses on songcraft and features tighter arrangements and softer instrumentation than usual.
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September 25, 2015The 17th studio album from East L.A.'s greatest band finds them still exploring new directions and playing with style and authority.
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September 25, 2015A thoroughly modern country record that embraces big pop hooks, beach swagger, and neo-disco.
Album Premiere: Papadosio, ‘Extras in a Movie’
Giveaway: Motörhead’s ‘Bad Magic’ on Vinyl and a Crosley Turntable
Song Premiere: White Widows Pact, “Thirteen Years of War”
Aerosmith’s Brad Whitford on the Band’s Eras, His Heavier Influences and Collecting Hats
Album Premiere: Undesirable People, ‘Eternal Vision of a Blind Future’
AllMusic Staff Picks
1979
The debut studio long player from the Robyn Hitchcock-led psych-pop unit, A Can of Bees is also the hardest hitting album of the Soft Boys career, offering up surrealism-heavy blast of post-punk goodness that's as savage and nervy as it is melodically-charged and blisteringly funny. Go for the seventeen track 1992 reissue for maximum food and sex-fueled debauchery.
September 28, 2010
Deerhunter excel at making fleeting moments of nostalgia seem tangible, and never more so than on Halcyon Digest. Bradford Cox and company blend the eternally teenage jangle of the Everly Brothers with memories of smoking joints wrapped in notebook paper, channeling feelings of rebellion and yearning that are as fresh as they are timeless.