Recent Turbulent Releases

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  J. Cole
  KOD
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  The rapper/producer follows his fourth straight number one album with a grimmer set that goes deep into addiction, its causes, and effects.

  - Andy Kellman
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  Black Milk
  Fever
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  The producer/MC's first rap album since 2014 is a tense, often grim, always riveting affair.

  - Andy Kellman
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  Reuben and the Dark
  Arms of a Dream
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  The Calgary folk-rock ensemble expands into lusher pop-oriented territories on their second outing for Arts + Crafts.

  - Timothy Monger
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  Hop Along
  Bark Your Head Off, Dog
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  The Philadelphia quartet's follow-up to 2015's Painted Shut feels a little broader and brighter, without smoothing out their off-kilter sound.

  - Marcy Donelson
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  Girls Names
  Stains on Silence
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  The moody post-punk band's fourth album is a fractured, emotionally jarring reinvention of their sound that bears a debt to Nick Cave and Rowland S. Howard.

  - Tim Sendra
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  Marin Alsop / Baltimore Symphony Orc …
  Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet - Comple …
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  Marin Alsop's recording of Prokofiev's complete Romeo and Juliet is reminiscent of classic recordings by Previn and Ozawa.

  - Blair Sanderson
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  FAN
  Barton’s Den
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  The mostly self-recorded debut of a solo project by the Dodos' Meric Long adds synthesizers to his off-balance indie rock.

  - Marcy Donelson
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  YOB
  Our Raw Heart
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  After guitarist Mike Scheidt suffered a life-threatening illness and surgery, YOB emerged with the most innovative, poetic album in their career.

  - Thom Jurek
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  Sleepyhead
  Future Exhibit Goes Here
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  Deluxe double-LP reissue collects the scrappy indie rock trio's excellent albums Starduster (1994) and Communist Love Songs (1995).

  - Tim Sendra
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  Angela Hewitt
  Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Op. 27 No. …
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  An extraordinary performance of Beethoven's mighty Piano Sonata No. 30 is the culmination of this volume in Hewitt's series.

  - James Manheim