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Hudson Mohawke

Cry Sugar

Electronic

Hudson Mohawke blends cinematic bombast with end-of-the-world celebration on his third full-length.

- Paul Simpson

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Reset

Electronic, Pop/Rock

This joint album from the longtime collaborators taps into the essence of their individual strengths and delivers its songs with a newfound sense of carefree joy.

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Heavy Rocks [2022]

Pop/Rock

The third volume in the band's Heavy Rocks series juxtaposes their punk, metal, and drone roots with rugged and raw experimentalism.

- Thom Jurek

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A Foul Form

Pop/Rock

With a more streamlined name, John Dwyer's band detours into lean-and-mean punk rock, with a side portion of electronic eccentricity.

- Mark Deming

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Chopper

Pop/Rock

The third album from this Toronto band fills out their slacker pop sound with the new additions of synthesizers and high-definition production.

- Fred Thomas

Tony Molina

In the Fade

Pop/Rock

Molina's first album that combines -- perfectly -- the bracing power pop crunch, melody-rich Baroque pop, and tender ballads he has previously kept separate.

- Tim Sendra

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No Rules Sandy

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The North Carolina duo's engaging fourth album comprises intimate, delicately experimental electronic pop.

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Featuring newly recorded vocals, a self-sampling set of dramatic original tracks constructed by manipulating sound files from 2020's The Neon.

- Marcy Donelson

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Chaos in Bloom

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Johnny Rzeznik produces his first Goo Goo Dolls album, delivering a tight record that showcases their strengths.

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On this night in 1978, Alan Gowen, Hugh Hopper, Elton Dean and drummer Dave Sheen delivered an electric jazz date. Though all but the drummer contributed tunes, it is Gowen's compositions and arrangements that walk the fulfilling yet tense line between strictly composed elements and improvisation, as the band -- inspired beyond belief – fire on all cylinders.

- Thom Jurek