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Double Infinity
Big Thief
Double Infinity
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Pop/Rock
Now down to a trio, the Brooklynites invited members of the indie, jazz, and avant-garde scenes to record their most improvisatory album yet.
- Marcy Donelson
Who Is the Sky?Editor's choice
David Byrne
Who Is the Sky?
Matador
Avant-Garde, International, Classical, Pop/Rock
Art pop figurehead revels in the silly and the celebratory even when addressing societal issues on this densely orchestrated and overwhelmingly joyful album.
- Fred Thomas
InternationalEditor's choice
Saint Etienne
International
Heavenly / Heavenly Recordings
Pop/Rock, Electronic
The band's collaboration-studded final album harkens back to the stylishly nostalgic sound of their early work while still coming across as resolutely up-to-date.
- Tim Sendra
Departures & Arrivals: Adventures of Captain CurtEditor's choice
Curtis Harding
Departures & Arrivals: Adventures of Captain Curt
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The retro-soul maverick takes a voyage into space that's a metaphor for the need to love and be loved.
- Mark Deming
Moments
Cut Copy
Moments
Cutters Records
Pop/Rock
The band continue to make classy, highly sophisticated dance music, incorporating many different electronic genres but always sounding like themselves.
- Tim Sendra
Joni's JazzEditor's choice
Joni Mitchell
Joni's Jazz
Rhino
Jazz, Pop/Rock
A multi-disc box that reveals a self curated journey that detailing jazz's enormous influence on the artist's career from Blue to Shine..
- Thom Jurek
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El Michels Affair
24 Hr Sports
Big Crown
R&B, Pop/Rock
A loosely themed set with past Leon Michels collaborators Norah Jones and Clairo among the many guests in on the action.
- Andy Kellman
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Shame
Cutthroat
Dead Oceans
Pop/Rock
The band's fourth album is a resounding reminder of their rock bona fides and their restless creativity.
- Heather Phares

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Arise Therefore
AllMusic Staff Pick – September 8, 2025
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Arise Therefore
April 29, 1996
Alternative Country-Rock
In the infancy of what would become a long run of fractured genius, Will Oldham's 1996 set Arise Therefore was an early indicator of just how bleak the songwriter could get. Stark, surreal, and sometimes threatening, the songs were here feature a stripped down trio of Oldham, his brother Ned, David Grubbs on piano, and minimal rhythms from an ancient drum machine. The tones are soft and mellow, but the lyrics can be blunt and even brutally violent, making for an uneasy but fascinating atmosphere of contradictions.
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