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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

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 dabbles in disco, smooth soul, earnest love songs, shellacked strings, and bouncy melodies.

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

Craig Finn

A Legacy of Rentals

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The Hold Steady frontman offers ten more short stories posing as songs that are honest, evocative, and powerfully effective.

- Mark Deming

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Strong Bad

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2003

Comedy

Recently (and miraculously) reissued on vinyl, this 2003 album of songs from the Lucha Libre-masked anti-hero from the Homestar Runner flash-animated universe captures the inspired, surreal silliness that made the website so popular in the 2000s. Brothers Matt and Mike Chapman were as good as skewering musical cliches as generating playful weirdness, and they tackle metal, hip-hop, punk, lo-fi pop, and dorm-room folk with hilarious results. Don't forget – the Cheat IS to the limit!

- Mark Deming

Love and Rockets

Express

September 15, 1986

Alternative Pop/Rock

On their second album and Billboard 200 debut, arrangements swirl, guitars spiral to dizzying heights, and songs shift and mutate. "Kundalini Express" typifies the approach, chugging along for several verses before breaking open and ascending into the heavens. John A. Rivers (who also co-produced the band's debut) outdoes himself with the sound here, offering a huge canvas upon which the band's crystalline acoustic guitars cut through thick, distorted tones, and where the bass is an equal player to the guitars and drums.

- Jonathan Ball