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4AD
AllMusic Rating: 3.5 stars
Now down to a trio, the Brooklynites invited members of the indie, jazz, and avant-garde scenes to record their most improvisatory album yet.
Matador
AllMusic Rating: 4.0 stars
Art pop figurehead revels in the silly and the celebratory even when addressing societal issues on this densely orchestrated and overwhelmingly joyful album.
Heavenly / Heavenly Recordings
AllMusic Rating: 4.0 stars
The band's collaboration-studded final album harkens back to the stylishly nostalgic sound of their early work while still coming across as resolutely up-to-date.
Anti-
AllMusic Rating: 4.0 stars
The retro-soul maverick takes a voyage into space that's a metaphor for the need to love and be loved.
Rhino
AllMusic Rating: 4.5 stars
A multi-disc box that reveals a self curated journey that detailing jazz's enormous influence on the artist's career from Blue to Shine..
Big Crown
AllMusic Rating: 3.0 stars
A loosely themed set with past Leon Michels collaborators Norah Jones and Clairo among the many guests in on the action.
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Bolstered by the international hit and opening track "Crash," this debut album's retro-teen-pop-inflected vocals and tasteful mix of noisy jangle, psychedelic oddities, and pure pop is lovely indeed, A much bigger hit in the U.K. (where it reached the Top Ten) than in the U.S. (where it stalled in the bottom half of the Billboard 200), it was nevertheless a darling of the MTV/modern rock set and has its place in the annals of early U.K. indie pop, in a sub-category then dubbed "blonde pop."
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