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Bruce Springsteen

Springsteen on Broadway

Pop/Rock

A double-disc document of Bruce Springsteen's groundbreaking Broadway show.

- Stephen Thomas Erlewine
The Decemberists

Traveling On

Pop/Rock

An EP containing five leftovers from the I'll Be Your Girl album, all sounding different than the finished record.

- Stephen Thomas Erlewine
ZAYN

Icarus Falls

Pop/Rock

The former One Directioner's sophomore effort is overly long but deserves attention if there's time to spare.

- Neil Z. Yeung

Big Star

Live on WLIR

Pop/Rock

The power pop cult heroes are captured in rough and ready form on this live session cut for radio broadcast in early 1974.

- Mark Deming
Chvrches

Hansa Session EP

Pop/Rock

The synth pop trio delivers heartfelt acoustic versions of Love Is Dead highlights.

- Heather Phares
Outrageous Cherry

Meet You in the Shadows

Pop/Rock

Released a year after guitarist Larry Ray's death, the band's final album is a warm, joyous last hurrah.

- Heather Phares

Porter Ray

Eye of the Beholder

Rap

Seattle rapper follows up his dreamy 2017 debut with an EP of similarly atmospheric hip-hop.

- Fred Thomas
Gudrun Gut

Moment

Electronic

Filled with stark atmospheres, compelling vocals, and dry feminist wit, the producer's third solo album is one of her most complete statements.

- Heather Phares
Lee Ranaldo

Electric Trim Live at Rough Trade East

Pop/Rock

Former Sonic Youth guitarist delivers a passionate, robust solo acoustic performance on this live version of his 2017 studio album.

- Mark Deming

The Faroe Islands-based Viking metal crew's fourth full-length delivers a heady brew of progressive folk-metal that's as pure as fresh blood on snow. Rousing battle hymns are a prominent aspect of Land, a ten-song, highly melodic juggernaut of Norse brutality that is as taut and clinical as it is glorious and epic.

- James Monger

Smell of Success: Jazz Themes from the Movie Sound Track

Elmer Bernstein / Chico Hamilton

Smell of Success: Jazz Themes from the Movie Sound Track

October 7, 2008

Cool

Elmer Bernstein's jazz orchestra performed the noir-styled score for this 1957 classic concerning New York City social life and the publicity racket. On this combined soundtrack, Chico Hamilton's quintet represents about a third of the selections, including music from scenes where they appeared on-screen. Instrumentalists represented include such heavyweights as Conte and Pete Candoli, Herb Geller, and Shelly Manne.

- Marcy Donelson

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