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Hypnotic Eye
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The Heartbreakers spend some time playing trashy rock & roll in the garage on this fun, fuzzy record.
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Counting Crows
Somewhere Under Wonderland
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First album of new original material since 2008 finds these alt-folk champions sounding optimistic and even giddy at times.
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Neil Diamond
Melody Road
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A Don Was-assisted returned to show biz schmaltz for the veteran singer/songwriter
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Opeth
Pale Communion
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On its brilliant follow-up to Heritage, the band doubles down on prog rock and leaves metal behind altogether.
- Thom Jurek
The Flaming Lips
With a Little Help from My Fwends
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The fearless freaks dish up a spacy reimagining of the Beatles iconic eighth album with the help of some heady fwends.
- Gregory Heaney
Ryan Adams
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Cannily constructed, sometimes emotionally vulnerable re-creation of the golden age of studio rock from the savvy singer/songwriter.
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Annie Lennox
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An album of distinctive, sophisticated cover songs that showcases the former Eurythmic's powerhouse vocals.
- Matt Collar
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The husband-and-wife banjoists deliver an intimate, edifying, and progressive dialogue on musical tradition with standards and originals.
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Röyksopp
The Inevitable End
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The Norwegian electro-pop wizards say goodbye to the album format with a star-studded, vocal-heavy finale.
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Madeleine Peyroux
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Career-spanning compilation of the genre-crossing jazz chanteuse.
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Melancholy
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Melancholy Album Highlights
Tindersticks
Ypres
John Hiatt
Same Old Man
Norah Jones
The Fall
The Twilight Sad
Nobody Wants to Be Here…
Röyksopp
The Inevitable End
Frank Sinatra
Only the Lonely
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Man on the Moon
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Rdio
Drive
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Rdio
What's the Frequency, Kenneth?
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Imitation of Life
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Everybody Hurts
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