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Kesha Records
AllMusic Rating: 4.5 stars
The singer's first album on her own Kesha Records is a giddy, cathartic declaration of creative and personal freedom.
- Matt Collar
Island
Rap
AllMusic Rating: 4.0 stars
The London rapper's mid-career sea change finds solid ground on his intimate fifth album.
- Timothy Monger
Erased Tapes Records
AllMusic Rating: 3.5 stars
For his ninth album, electronic musician Ryan Lee West finds new inspiration by creating outside of his usual studio environment.
- Paul Simpson
Fire Records
AllMusic Rating: 3.5 stars
Various online-only singles and stand-alone tracks from this fuzzy indie project are collected into a nicely flowing album format.
- Fred Thomas
Deutsche Grammophon
AllMusic Rating: 4.5 stars
Piano-led Brahms quartets catch the personalities of the lesser-heard Second and Third.
- James Manheim
Alpha
AllMusic Rating: 4.0 stars
A bold new pianistic approach to the well-trodden Well-Tempered Clavier.
- James Manheim
PentaTone Classics
AllMusic Rating: 4.0 stars
Beethoven's violin concerto paired with a unique work by an Outback-inspired composer.
- James Manheim
Palazzetto Bru Zane
AllMusic Rating: 4.5 stars
A fresh recording of Lalo's underrated opera brings fine singers and energy throughout.
- James Manheim

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Chesapeake Bay native Matt Maeson plays a dark-hued brand of rock that mixes gritty folk elements with slick modern pop production. The singer/songwriter first found success with his 2017 single "Cringe," then topped Billboard's Alternative Songs chart with "Hallucinogenics" from his 2019 debut album, Bank On the Funeral. Over the next two years, Maeson focused on collaborations, and in 2021 formed the project USERx with producer Read More about Matt Maeson

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Comin' on like 18th Century pirate dandy gangsters, Michigan vocal pop quartet the Arbors really knew how to sell an album cover lewk. They also had a knack for picking cover tunes, and whether it was their slinky coffeehouse rendition of "The Letter," their harpsichord-laden take of "Like a Rolling Stone," or their balmy, Spanish classical dreamscape re-envisioning of the Doors' "Touch Me," the Arbors gave four part harmony beat downs like nobody else.
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