Recent Exuberant 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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  Pat Metheny
  Side-Eye NYC (V1.IV)
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  This live trio outing with Marcus Gilmore and James Francies offers older material and new work played with elasticity, adventure, and warmth.

  - Thom Jurek
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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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  Rufus Wainwright
  Unfollow the Rules: The Paramour Ses …
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  A superb if abbreviated live set culled from a June 2020 album-release stream featuring minimal accompaniment and two previously unreleased songs.

  - Marcy Donelson
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  Lee Morgan
  The Complete Live at the Lighthouse
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  The legendary hard bop trumpeter's final dynamic live 1970 concert album is presented in full.

  - Matt Collar
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  Lorde
  Solar Power
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  Lorde indulges in good vibes on this hazy, sunny album.

  - Stephen Thomas Erlewine
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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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  Andrew W.K.
  God Is Partying
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  The party-positive optimist goes noir on his aggressive and cathartic sixth album.

  - Timothy Monger
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  The Joy Formidable
  Into the Blue
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  The Welsh indie rock trio's fifth album and second since relocating to Utah is a work of muscular, transcendent beauty.

  - Matt Collar
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  Heartless Bastards
  A Beautiful Life
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  Feeling more like an Erika Wennerstrom solo LP than a band effort, this finds her growing and reaching out as an artist.

  - Mark Deming