Recent Lyrical Releases

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  Toumani Diabaté / Béla Fleck
  The Ripple Effect
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  Previously unissued live date from 2008 from the American banjo master and the Malian kora legend that reveals two improvisers at their peak.

  - Thom Jurek
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  Kip Moore
  Wild World
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  Kip Moore wears his heart on his sleeve for this brawny yet vulnerable album.

  - Stephen Thomas Erlewine
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  Béla Fleck
  Throw Down Your Heart: The Complete …
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  This box includes both volumes of this Grammy-winning outing, its documentary film, and a previously unreleased live recording with Toumani Diabate.

  - Thom Jurek
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  Perfume Genius
  Set My Heart on Fire Immediately
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  Mike Hadreas' fifth album explores the body's power and tenderness with songs that are equally rugged and delicate.

  - Heather Phares
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  Austra
  Hirudin
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  Katie Stelmanis highlights the classical and pop sides of her music on these pristine-sounding songs about toxic relationships.

  - Heather Phares
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  Boney James
  Solid
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  Hooky, R&B-infused grooves mark the chart-topping saxophonist's seventeenth album.

  - Matt Collar
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  Baths
  Pop Music/False B-Sides II
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  Will Wiesenfeld transforms a decade's worth of outtakes into songs that highlight his empathetic, impressionistic powers.

  - Heather Phares
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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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  Ashley McBryde
  Never Will
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  Ashley McBryde gets bold and empathetic on her excellent second album.

  - Stephen Thomas Erlewine
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  Whitney Rose
  We Still Go To Rodeos
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  A softer album from the Austin-based singer/songwriter that emphasizes her slyly idiosyncratic Americana.

  - Stephen Thomas Erlewine