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New Reviews for August 22, 2025

Private MusicEditor's choice
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With returning producer Nick Raskulinecz, the alt-metal vets craft a flawless stunner of a tenth album.
- Neil Z. Yeung
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A heartfelt tour de force, the band's fourth album taps into rock & roll's undying power to reflect inner truths and bring fantasies to life.
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Merge
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After 35-plus years, the band have lost none of the fire that powers their hooky, punk-in-the-truest-sense brand of indie rock.
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Guitar
Mac DeMarco
Guitar
Mac's Record Label
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After several years of miscellaneous output, the indie artist returns to traditional songwriting with an album of slow-moving tunes intoned with wintery reflections.
- Fred Thomas
Legacy: The Creedence Clearwater Revival Years
John Fogerty
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Concord
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The CCR leader records new versions of his old classics, which are great, but not as great as the originals.
- Mark Deming
Escape Room
Teyana Taylor
Escape Room
Def Jam
R&B
Narrated by an all-star cast, the singer's first album in five years is a powerful statement of emotional and sexual liberation.
- Andy Kellman
Adult RomantixEditor's choice
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Winspear
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Top-notch shoegaze spiked with dream pop as expected, but this time amped up, dialed down, and better all-around.
- Tim Sendra
It's a Beautiful Place
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Matador
Pop/Rock
The volatile art-punks follow their breakthrough album with dense experiments full of haunting melancholy, sci-fi optimism, and potent wit.
- Heather Phares

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1992
Adult Alternative Pop/Rock
This is one of those recordings that cannot be fully absorbed on the first or second listen, but after several, one starts to realize just how strong this abstract pop-folk-rock release is. With a quirky and waifish vocal style, lead singer Angie Hart can take a bit of getting used to, but it's an acquired taste well worth the effort as she navigates the band's strange acoustic cover of New Order's "Bizarre Love Triangle" and originals like "Explode," "Pretty Friend," and "Lonely," Throughout, the Australians use subtlety and understatement to great advantage on this striking debut.
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