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Domino
AllMusic Rating: 4.0 stars
The band's first album as a five-piece goes beyond virally catchy singles with witty, heartfelt love songs for people who don't want to fall in love.
- Heather Phares
Heavenly Recordings
AllMusic Rating: 3.5 stars
The Welsh singer/songwriter sets aside electronics (mostly) on this alternately down-to-earth and ambitious set of warmly emotional and introspective songs.
- Tim Sendra
Ninja Tune
AllMusic Rating: 4.0 stars
The U.K. producer's second album contains several club bangers along with lush, sentimental material similar to his debut.
- Paul Simpson
Second Disc Records / SoulMusic
AllMusic Rating: 4.5 stars
Devotedly assembled and chock-full of rarities, this thorough 12-disc box is testament to the incomparable singer's greatness beyond the hits.
- Andy Kellman
Jazz Is Dead
AllMusic Rating: 4.0 stars
The collaboration between Brazilian piano legend and the JID crew offers a kaleidoscopic encounter with American jazz, samba, and Afro-Latin funk.
- Thom Jurek
Slumberland
AllMusic Rating: 4.0 stars
Warm and tuneful throughout, the indie pop group's first album in 11 years sounds a little more reflective but otherwise like they never left.
- Marcy Donelson
Safe Suburban Home Records / Slumberland
AllMusic Rating: 3.5 stars
Sprightly indie pop derived from classic sounds of the past but given new life thanks to the uneasy balance between the two vocalists.
- Tim Sendra
Paradise of Bachelors
AllMusic Rating: 4.0 stars
The second solo album from this Philly artist is stormy, meditative, and quietly powerful even in its mostly acoustic rendering.
- Fred Thomas

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A veteran of the L.A. psychedelic scene, Michael Collins turns the trippiness down to a slow boil for his Drugdealer project. Built around his smooth keyboard playing and plangent soft rock melodies, the band re-creates the laid-back sound and vibe of Laurel Canyon of the '70s, while also sounding as technically pure as a studio full of session players. Two albums recorded in the late 2010s (The End…  Read More about Drugdealer

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One of the most alienating and bizarre releases from a major musician, Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music (which turns 50 years old this month) is an uncompromising wall of sonic scree and nerve-jangling avant noise. While it is a hard album to "recommend," as a piece of music history it is certainly worth hearing once.
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