Recent Poignant 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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  Béla Fleck
  My Bluegrass Heart
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  A dazzling assault of capital-T talent marks the banjo hero's double-disc return to progressive bluegrass.

  - Timothy Monger
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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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  OneRepublic
  Human
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  The American band's fifth set of uplifting anthems continues their streak of emotive, contemporary pop optimism.

  - Neil Z. Yeung
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  Imagine Dragons
  Mercury: Act 1
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  The Vegas quartet recruits Rick Rubin and digs deep on their mature and emotionally intense fifth album.

  - Neil Z. Yeung
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  Alejandro Escovedo
  La Cruzada
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  The celebrated singer/songwriter translates his concept album about the immigrant experience from English into Spanish.

  - Mark Deming
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  James McMurtry
  The Horses and the Hounds
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  The great Texas singer/songwriter makes an album where the music is as powerful and exciting as his outstanding songs.

  - Mark Deming
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  Low
  HEY WHAT
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  The long-running slowcore act continues their deep dive into electronic noise on these ten songs of chaos and fleeting beauty.

  - Mark Deming