Recent Athletic Releases

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  Sauna Youth
  Deaths
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  The band's third album pushes their post-punk noise rock attack to extremes without sacrificing hooks or coherent songs.

  - Tim Sendra
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  A Certain Ratio
  ACR: Set
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  Judicious catalog-spanning overview of the funk-inspired post-punk band, including a new recording with Barry Adamson.

  - Andy Kellman
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  St. Paul & the Broken Bones
  Young Sick Camellia
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  The Alabama retro-soul outfit's reflective, more exploratory third LP updates their sound with help from producer Jack Splash.

  - Marcy Donelson
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  Marcus Strickland's Twi-Life
  People of the Sun
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  On his sophomore Blue Note offering, the saxophonist and composer traces the African diaspora from history into the future.

  - Thom Jurek
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  Permanent Green Light
  Hallucinations
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  Great collection of singles, album tracks, and demos from the early-'90s power pop-meets-psych group co-headed by the Three O'Clock's Michael Quercio.

  - Tim Sendra