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Mac's Record Label
AllMusic Rating: 3.5 stars
After several years of miscellaneous output, the indie artist returns to traditional songwriting with an album of slow-moving tunes intoned with wintery reflections.
Merge
AllMusic Rating: 4.0 stars
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.
Winspear
AllMusic Rating: 4.5 stars
Top-notch shoegaze spiked with dream pop as expected, but this time amped up, dialed down, and better all-around.
Sofi Tukker
AllMusic Rating: 3.5 stars
A reimagined companion to 2024's Bread that transforms those original tracks with bossa nova, samba, and other Brazilian genres.
Fat Possum Records
AllMusic Rating: 4.0 stars
Stark honesty, wide-ranging timbres and textures, and artfulness define Meg Duffy's fourth LP, recorded largely in live sessions.
Atlantic
AllMusic Rating: 2.5 stars
The third studio full-length from the American pop singer plays like a B-side collection afterthought.
Domino
AllMusic Rating: 4.0 stars
Yorkston's third Swedish collaboration showcases the vocals of the Cardigan's Nina Persson and First Aid Kit's Johanna Söderberg.
Ghostly International
AllMusic Rating: 4.0 stars
The Montreal project's discomfited fifth album expands on their already oddball sophisti-pop with flashes of disco, quasi-metal, and more.
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1971
Lou Christie will always be remembered for his melodramatic, falsetto-driven hits like "Lightning Strikes" or "Two Faces Have I," but in 1971, he crafted this ambitious concept album that revealed how much more he could do. Paint America Love is a collection of songs reflecting dramatic political and social change in America, and along with his semi-operatic vocals, it features grand scale production and arrangements that make it an overlooked masterpiece of mature, arty pop.
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