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New Reviews for July 11, 2025

MoisturizerEditor's choice
Wet Leg
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Domino
Pop/Rock
The band's first album as a five-piece goes beyond virally catchy singles with witty, heartfelt love songs for people who don't want to fall in love.
- Heather Phares
Utopia
Gwenno
Utopia
Heavenly Recordings
Pop/Rock
The Welsh singer/songwriter sets aside electronics (mostly) on this alternately down-to-earth and ambitious set of warmly emotional and introspective songs.
- Tim Sendra
LonerEditor's choice
Barry Can't Swim
Loner
Ninja Tune
Electronic, Pop/Rock
The U.K. producer's second album contains several club bangers along with lush, sentimental material similar to his debut.
- Paul Simpson
Make It Easy on Yourself: The Scepter Recordings 1962-1971Editor's choice
Dionne Warwick
Make It Easy on Yourself: The Scepter Recordings 1962-1971
Second Disc Records / SoulMusic
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Devotedly assembled and chock-full of rarities, this thorough 12-disc box is testament to the incomparable singer's greatness beyond the hits.
- Andy Kellman
Bright NightsEditor's choice
Allo Darlin'
Bright Nights
Slumberland
Pop/Rock
Warm and tuneful throughout, the indie pop group's first album in 11 years sounds a little more reflective but otherwise like they never left.
- Marcy Donelson
What Do You Do All Day?
Autocamper
What Do You Do All Day?
Safe Suburban Home Records / Slumberland
Pop/Rock
Sprightly indie pop derived from classic sounds of the past but given new life thanks to the uneasy balance between the two vocalists.
- Tim Sendra
Around SoundEditor's choice
Mike Polizze
Around Sound
Paradise of Bachelors
Pop/Rock
The second solo album from this Philly artist is stormy, meditative, and quietly powerful even in its mostly acoustic rendering.
- Fred Thomas
A Dawning
Ólafur Arnalds / Talos
A Dawning
Mercury KX / Opia Community
Pop/Rock
Somber, poignant collaboration that was completed shortly after the Irish singer/songwriter's untimely death.
- Paul Simpson

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A veteran of the L.A. psychedelic scene, Michael Collins turns the trippiness down to a slow boil for his Drugdealer project. Built around his smooth keyboard playing and plangent soft rock melodies, the band re-creates the laid-back sound and vibe of Laurel Canyon of the '70s, while also sounding as technically pure as a studio full of session players. Two albums recorded in the late 2010s (The End…  Read More about Drugdealer

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Bo Diddley
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December, 1963
Early R&B
A blistering live album, especially in mono, cut by Bo Diddley and company in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina on July 5 and 6, 1963. This album contains 30-plus minutes of the best live rock & roll ever issued on record. Diddley and company are "on" from the get-go with a killer instrumental erroneously credited as Chuck Berry's "Memphis" (which it isn't), that's a showcase for Diddley's attack on his instrument and a crunching assault by the rest of the band (all in that shave-and-a-haircut-two-bits beat), cymbals on top of an overloaded bass, and what sounds like every rhythm guitar in the world grinding away.
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