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Straight Line Was a LieEditor's choice
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Pop/Rock
With Elizabeth Stokes turning to self-help writing practice to conquer creative blocks, the hooky indie rockers' fourth LP is their most personal yet.
- Marcy Donelson
Rwanda Sings with StringsEditor's choice
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Glitterbeat
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The Rwandan folk duo are complemented by two string players on this poignant and spontaneous album.
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Drag City
Avant-Garde, Electronic
Bewildering collaboration pieced together from improvised sets during the pair's first tour outside of Japan.
- Paul Simpson
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Lathe of Heaven
Aurora
Sacred Bones
Pop/Rock
On their second album, the Brooklyn band let a little (just a little) melodic romanticism seep into their dingy, fervent post-punk.
- Marcy Donelson
Shostakovich: Preludes & Fugues Op. 87
Yulianna Avdeeva
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PentaTone Classics
Classical
Romantic, spontaneous-seeming Shostakovich preludes and fugues, with dramatic contrasts.
- James Manheim
György Kurtág: Kafka Fragments
Susan Narucki / Curtis Macomber
György Kurtág: Kafka Fragments
Avie
Classical
Fine performance of Kurtág's little Kafka settings captures not only the compressed yet expressive language but the shifting relationship between the instruments.
- James Manheim
A Prayer for Deliverance
Tenebrae / Nigel Short
A Prayer for Deliverance
Signum Classics
Classical
An unusually strong set of modern musical prayers, centered on Herbert Howells' Requiem and the pandemic-inspired title piece.
- James Manheim
26 Little Deaths
Carla Kihlstedt / Present Music
26 Little Deaths
Cantaloupe
Vocal, Classical
A varied musical palette serves a song cycle inspired by -- and expanding upon -- cartoonist Edward Gorey's book The Gashlycrumb Tinies.
- James Manheim

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The War on Drugs
Lost in the Dream
March 17, 2014
Indie Rock
Starting with the epic two-chord gallop of "Under the Pressure," Granduciel offers up song after song of incredibly restrained yet entirely engaged rock. The classic rock reference points led to a "blue-collar rock" labeling of the band's sound, and while there are undeniable callbacks to Petty, Dylan, and Springsteen here, as there were on earlier albums, the War on Drugs have come into their own with their sound.
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