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New Reviews for July 25, 2025

The Revenge of Alice CooperEditor's choice
Alice Cooper
The Revenge of Alice Cooper
Ear Music
Pop/Rock
The surviving members of the original Alice Cooper band reunite for their first album in 50 years, revisiting their shock-rock prime and breaking new ground.
- Fred Thomas
Veronica Electronica
Madonna
Veronica Electronica
Pop/Rock, Electronic
Remix EP that transforms a handful of Ray of Light tracks with the help of some big turn-of-the-millennium electronic producers.
- Neil Z. Yeung
Find El Dorado
Paul Weller
Find El Dorado
Parlophone / PLG
Pop/Rock
The British rock icon's second official album of cover songs features both obscure and prized pop gems.
- Matt Collar
More Songs About Buildings and Food [Super Deluxe Edition]
Talking Heads
More Songs About Buildings and Food [Super Deluxe Edition]
Rhino
Pop/Rock
America's leading art school band get tighter, smarter, and funkier on this expanded version of their brilliant second album.
- Mark Deming
Going Down to the River...To Blow My Mind
Peter Buck / Luke Haines
Going Down to the River...To Blow My Mind
Cherry Red
Pop/Rock
More songs about commonplace madness from the Auteurs/Black Box Recorder and R.E.M. leaders that deliver good bitter fun.
- Mark Deming
The Year of the Radical RomanticsEditor's choice
Fever Ray
The Year of the Radical Romantics
Rabid
Pop/Rock, Electronic
Recorded live to tape, this riveting document of the Radical Romantics tour uncovers new layers within Fever Ray's music.
- Heather Phares
Crown of Roses
Patty Griffin
Crown of Roses
PGM
Folk, Pop/Rock
The singularly gifted singer and songwriter uses a turbulent time in her life as the basis for a set of songs full of empathy and wisdom.
- Mark Deming
IRON
Post Animal
IRON
Polyvinyl
Pop/Rock
A more sentimental, AOR-leaning fourth album from the good-natured psych-rockers, who welcome back original member Joe Keery (TV's Stranger Things).
- Marcy Donelson

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Drawing comparisons to Nina Simone and Tracy Chapman for her rich voice and intimate arrangements, Annahstasia's mix of soul and folk is distinctly her own vision. After extricating herself from a restrictive early deal, a string of EPs led to her breakthrough debut album, Tether (2025), and she earned the admiration of a variety of notable musicians, from Lenny Kravitz to Kendrick…  Read More about Annahstasia

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Heavy Sounds
AllMusic Staff Pick – July 27, 2025
Richard Davis / Elvin Jones
Heavy Sounds
1967
Hard Bop
This 1967 date with jazz drummer extraordinaire Elvin Jones acting as the leader is a loose, laid-back, and profoundly cool listen. The result of a two piecemeal sessions where some days all the players showed up and some days they didn't, Heavy Sounds isn't too heavy at all, but rather a relaxed swing through some standards, a few tunes by saxophonist Frank Foster, and even one song where Jones comes out from behind the drum kit to play a little rudimentary blues guitar.
- Fred Thomas
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