Recent Bright Releases

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  Chvrches
  Screen Violence
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  The trio’s fourth album taps into everything that makes them so special among the legions of bands reinventing synth pop in the 2020s.

  - Heather Phares
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  The Beach Boys
  Feel Flows: The Sunflower & Surf …
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  Dozens of previously unreleased tracks join remasters of two original albums from a curious and creatively rich phase of one of rock's most important legacies.

  - Fred Thomas
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  Béla Fleck
  My Bluegrass Heart
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  A dazzling assault of capital-T talent marks the banjo hero's double-disc return to progressive bluegrass.

  - Timothy Monger
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  J Balvin
  JOSE
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  In contrast to 2020's concise and isolated Colores, the Colombian superstar's sixth LP embraces a bright smattering of styles across a lengthy, collaborative track list.

  - David Crone
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  Bob Marley / Bob Marley & the Wa …
  The Capitol Session '73
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  Previously unreleased live-in-the-studio set that documents the Wailers as a group and not just Bob Marley's backing band.

  - Mark Deming
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  Robben Ford
  Pure
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  On his first instrumental album since 1997, the guitar master delivers a wonderfully diverse and balanced collection of funky originals.

  - Thom Jurek
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  The Vaccines
  Back in Love City
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  The English indie rockers' fifth long-player sees the band looking for connections in an emotionally disconnected world.

  - James Christopher Monger
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  Shannon & the Clams
  Year of the Spider
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  Still mixing garage punk and 1960s pop, Shannon Shaw and her bandmates sound deeper and more mature on their sixth album.

  - Mark Deming
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  Saint Etienne
  I've Been Trying to Tell You
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  The long-running group abandon song structures in favor of impressionistic, sample-based pieces that sound like dub versions of imagined late-'90s pop ballads.

  - Tim Sendra
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  Sleigh Bells
  Texis
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  The duo's fifth album taps into the anything-goes spirit of their early days with songs that teeter between sweetness and annihilation.

  - Heather Phares