Recent Crunchy Releases

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  Ozzy Osbourne
  Ordinary Man
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  The first solo album in ten years from this longstanding icon of metal is surprisingly spontaneous and energetic.

  - Fred Thomas
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  The Strokes
  The New Abnormal
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  Complicated, ambitious, and emotionally raw, the band's sixth album is a surprising and rewarding triumph.

  - Heather Phares
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  Five Finger Death Punch
  F8
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  The platinum-selling arena rockers' eighth studio effort, F8 ticks off all of the FFDP boxes.

  - James Christopher Monger
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  The Pack A.D.
  It Was Fun While It Lasted
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  Final album from the Canadian blues/garage/hard rock duo is a meditation on loving music and hating the music business.

  - Mark Deming
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  The Buttertones
  Jazzhound
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  A cinematic fifth album of post-punk noir anthems from the Los Angeles outfit.

  - Matt Collar
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  Hanni el Khatib
  Flight
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  The L.A. artist's wild, sample-heavy fifth album feels like a bedroom pop update of the Dust Brothers' '90s classics.

  - Timothy Monger
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  Audrey Horne
  Waiting for the Night
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  The first concert LP from the stalwart Norwegian rockers.

  - James Christopher Monger
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  Thao & the Get Down Stay Down
  Temple
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  The project's still delightfully wonky but more personal and meditative sixth album is their first to be self-produced.

  - Marcy Donelson
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  Happyness
  Floatr
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  A more meditative third album from the Sparklehorse-influenced indie rockers and their Infinit Suds debut.

  - Marcy Donelson
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  The Howling Hex
  Knuckleball Express
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  Hagerty's first album in four years is a loose, sprawling throwback to the Howling Hex's 2000s albums.

  - Heather Phares