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Van Morrison

What's It Gonna Take?

Pop/Rock

Van Morrison marries his anger about the COVID-19 pandemic era to jaunty R&B rhythms or slow, soulful grooves.

- Stephen Thomas Erlewine

The Clash

Combat Rock [People's Hall Special Edition]

Pop/Rock

This reissue resurrects precious few tracks from Mick Jones' personal mix of the legendary Clash album.

Levon Helm / Mavis Staples

Carry Me Home

Pop/Rock, R&B, Religious

Two friends and mutual admirers lift one another in song in this glorious live recording from June 2011.

- Mark Deming

Porridge Radio

Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder to the Sky

Pop/Rock

With their raw, volatile indie rock in hand, the Brits delve deeper into existential dread on the follow-up to the Mercury Prize-nominated Every Bad.

- Marcy Donelson

Matmos

Regards/Uklony dla Boguslaw Schaeffer

Electronic

Matmos' reimagining of the works of the Polish experimental composer also pays tribute to the duo's skill at invention and reinvention.

- Heather Phares

Grant-Lee Phillips

All That You Can Dream

Pop/Rock, Folk

Stuck at home, the smokey-voiced indie folk troubadour ponders the uncertain state of the world in the early 2020s.

- Mark Deming

Moby

Reprise Remixes

Electronic

Remixes of Moby's orchestral retrospective Reprise, which manage to approach familiar material from a variety of fresh perspectives.

- Paul Simpson

Train

AM Gold

Pop/Rock

Train nods to the Super Hits of the 1970s on an album that feels like a throwback to the ebullient pop of the Y2K era.

- Stephen Thomas Erlewine

The Verlaines

Live at the Windsor Castle, Auckland, May 1986

Pop/Rock

Scrappy audio of a small but spirited gig early on in the career of these New Zealand jangle pop giants.

- Fred Thomas

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Labradford

Prazision

1994

Alternative/Indie Rock

Sparse drones, minutely plucked guitars, keys and vocals darting through the mix like elusive vapor trails; the album is a monochromatic dream sequence that fades and flickers as it soundtracks the moments in between the moments of life. The perfect record to kick off years and years of like-minded records from Kranky.

- Tim Sendra

Marc Johnson

The Sound of Summer Running

1997

Post-Bop

This roster of jazz musicians (Frisell, Metheny, Johnson and drummer Joey Baron) had the potential to produce a bombastic noodley explosion of an album but instead turned out a warm, summery, laid-back melodic charmer.

- Zac Johnson