Recent Effervescent Releases

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  Hinds
  I Don't Run
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  The Spanish quartet's second album is a tightly focused, stripped-down garage rock album with shiny hooks and a surplus of cheerful attitude.

  - Tim Sendra
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  Keith Urban
  Graffiti U
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  Keith Urban engages with the modern world on this electronic-inflected album.

  - Stephen Thomas Erlewine
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  Embrace
  Love Is a Basic Need
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  The aptly named Love Is a basic Need serves up ten expertly crafted specimens of Coldplay-era Brit-pop that invoke the highs and lows of devotion.

  - James Christopher Monger
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  Mint Field
  Pasar de las Luces
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  Remarkable debut full-length from Mint Field, a Mexican duo who play an abstract yet accessible form of dream pop.

  - Paul Simpson
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  James Hunter / The James Hunter Six
  Whatever It Takes
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  On his second album for Daptone, England's finest soul singer and his band deliver a fingerpopping collection of upbeat love songs.

  - Thom Jurek
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  Matt and Kim
  ALMOST EVERYDAY
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  The duo's first album after Kim's knee injury is introspective and thoughtful -- for them -- and filled with a wide array of guest vocalists.

  - Tim Sendra
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  Très Oui
  Poised to Flourish
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  Members of Literature dial up the '80s new wave/sophisti-pop influence on a bouncy, inviting debut.

  - Marcy Donelson
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  CHAPPO
  Do It
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  On the heels of personal loss, the band's John Vanderslice-produced third LP is more contemplative but still refreshingly outside the lines.

  - Marcy Donelson
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  DMA's
  For Now
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  The sophomore effort from the Aussie Brit-pop enthusiasts adds shoegaze and jangle pop to their arsenal.

  - James Christopher Monger
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  Cavern of Anti-Matter
  Hormone Lemonade
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  The trio's second album delivers some of its most freewheeling experiments.

  - Heather Phares