Recent Serious Releases

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  Damu the Fudgemunk / Raw Poetic /
  Ocean Bridges
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  The saxophonist, his nephew Raw Poetic, Damu the Fudgemunk, and a band deliver a seamless, creative, and completely improvised jazz/hip-hop fusion.

  - Thom Jurek
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  Darkstar
  Civic Jams
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  Darkstar's fourth album unintentionally addresses domestic life during a pandemic, resembling a distorted memory of the club experience.

  - Paul Simpson
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  Katatonia
  City Burials
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  After a four-year break, Stockholm's favorite prog metal band emerges with a dynamic reflection on memory, loss, grief, and rage.

  - Thom Jurek
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  BBC Philharmonic Orchestra / Martyn … / Lawr …
  MacMillan: Symphony No 4; Viola Conc …
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  A pair of instrumental works by MacMillan in which the symphony may make more use of contrast than the concerto does.

  - James Manheim
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  Jonas Kaufmann / Antonio Pappano
  Verdi: Otello
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  A superb Otello from a tenor who can do it all, including applying dramatic insight.

  - James Manheim
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  Peter Oren
  The Greener Pasture
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  A self-described "dystopian farm/phone-themed album" made up of smart, wide-ranging indie folk.

  - Marcy Donelson
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  Rafael Anton Irisarri
  Peripeteia
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  One of experimental ambient composer Rafael Anton Irisarri's boldest and most immediate works.

  - Paul Simpson
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  Metropole Orkest / Triptykon
  Requiem [Live at Roadburn 2019]
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  The premiere (and only) performance of Celtic Frost's completed Requiem by the Swiss doom legends with Metropole Orkest.

  - Thom Jurek
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  Bo Ningen
  Sudden Fictions
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  On their fifth album, the band remain true to their experimental roots with a surreal, sensual, and surprising reinvention.

  - Heather Phares
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  ARTHUR
  Hair of the Dog
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  The second album from this Philly bedroom pop artist is demented, cartoonish, and garish but still can't hide its pop core.

  - Fred Thomas