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Reprise / WEA
AllMusic Rating: 4.5 stars
With returning producer Nick Raskulinecz, the alt-metal vets craft a flawless stunner of a tenth album.
- Neil Z. Yeung
Columbia / RCA
AllMusic Rating: 4.5 stars
A heartfelt tour de force, the band's fourth album taps into rock & roll's undying power to reflect inner truths and bring fantasies to life.
- Heather Phares
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.
- Tim Sendra
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.
- Fred Thomas
Concord
AllMusic Rating: 3.5 stars
The CCR leader records new versions of his old classics, which are great, but not as great as the originals.
- Mark Deming
Def Jam
R&B
AllMusic Rating: 3.5 stars
Narrated by an all-star cast, the singer's first album in five years is a powerful statement of emotional and sexual liberation.
- Andy Kellman
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.
- Tim Sendra
Matador
AllMusic Rating: 4.0 stars
The volatile art-punks follow their breakthrough album with dense experiments full of haunting melancholy, sci-fi optimism, and potent wit.
- Heather Phares

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The project's third album was inspired by Katherine Paul moving from Portland back to the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community (on Puget Sound), where she was raised, at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. For her, the period's mix of grief, loneliness, and frustration was matched by a sense of belonging as well as by potent physical surroundings -- the Skagit River, towering cedar trees, tide flats, and mountain vistas. It's a dichotomy reflected musically by moments of quiet reflection and dissonant alt-rock. Mount Eerie's Phil Elverum joins Paul on the bittersweet "Salmon Stinta," a song about fish swimming upstream.
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