Recent Turbulent Releases

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  The Weeknd
  After Hours
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  Abel Tesfaye's Blood on the Tracks -- er, teeth -- is an emotionally resonant, sonically varied breakup album.

  - Andy Kellman
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  Thundercat
  It Is What It Is
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  Shaken by the death of Mac Miller, Stephen Bruner nonetheless reaches a new peak with his fourth album.

  - Andy Kellman
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  The Used
  Heartwork
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  This blistering eighth set from the post-hardcore vets kicks the energy back into gear by bridging their past and present.

  - Neil Z. Yeung
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  Jessie Reyez
  BEFORE LOVE CAME TO KILL US
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  The characteristically unfiltered, scattered, and engaging first album from the already platinum, two-time Juno winner.

  - Andy Kellman
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  Helen Money
  Atomic
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  The direct yet expansive fifth solo album from cellist/composer Alison Chesley.

  - Paul Simpson
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  Kvelertak
  Splid
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  The studio debut for vocalist Ivar Nikolaisen, the Norwegian black metallers pick right up where 2016's Nattesferd left off and never look back.

  - James Christopher Monger
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  Ghostpoet
  I Grow Tired But Dare Not Fall Aslee …
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  Stark and seductive fifth dispatch from two-time Mercury Prize nominee Obaro Ejimiwe.

  - Andy Kellman
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  Porches
  Ricky Music
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  With guests such as Dev Hynes and Mitski, the project's fourth album plays like a mini chamber-synth song cycle about infatuation, sex, and heartbreak.

  - Marcy Donelson
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  Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra / Vasily …
  Richard Strauss: Eine Alpensinfonie, …
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  A compelling, vivid reading of Strauss' stroll in the Alps, and his evocation of death.

  - James Manheim
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  Tim Berne / Tim Berne's Snakeoil
  Fantastic Mrs. 10
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  Tim Berne's quintet -- with guitarist Marc Ducret added -- deliver an exciting, canny, labyrinthine series of new tunes.

  - Thom Jurek