Recent Calm/Peaceful Releases

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  Bill Frisell
  Music IS
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  The guitarist's second album of intimate, layered solo performances, featuring new songs and reworked favorites.

  - Matt Collar
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  Moby
  Everything Was Beautiful, And Nothin …
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  After a pair of punk blasts with Void Pacific Choir, Moby dips back into soulful, melancholy electronic soundscapes.

  - Neil Z. Yeung
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  Kurt Elling
  The Questions
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  Elling's second album with saxophonist Branford Marsalis is a deeply poetic, lyrical set.

  - Matt Collar
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  Beach House
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  Working with Sonic Boom and live drummer James Barone, the duo delivers some of its widest-ranging, most exhilarating music of its career.

  - Heather Phares
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  Joan Baez
  Whistle Down the Wind
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  The folk icon records an autumnal album at the age of 77 that acknowledges time but confirms she's far from a spent force.

  - Mark Deming
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  James Bay
  Electric Light
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  James Bay ditches handsome classicism for brightly colored pop on his excellent second album.

  - Stephen Thomas Erlewine
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  Daniel Avery
  Song for Alpha
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  The long-awaited follow-up to techno producer Daniel Avery's acclaimed debut is more hazy and abstract, but just as fascinating.

  - Paul Simpson
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  Josh Rouse
  Love in the Modern Age
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  The veteran songsmith takes a cunning detour into synth-based sophisti-pop on his 12th record.

  - Timothy Monger
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  Françoise Hardy
  Personne d'Autre
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  On her first recording in six years, the French yé-yé icon offers an extended meditation on mortality and various kinds of love.

  - Thom Jurek
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  No Joy / Sonic Boom
  No Joy/Sonic Boom
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  Shimmering electronic pop and techno shoegaze that melds the old-school and new school of noise pop.

  - Tim Sendra