Recent Heartache 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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  Justin Bieber
  Changes
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  Low-key and newlywed blissed-out, the singer's fifth and most focused album is full of R&B-pop slow jams and sparse guitar ballads.

  - Andy Kellman
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  Robert Cray / Robert Cray Band
  That's What I Heard
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  The veteran blues artist lets his love of Southern soul take center stage, and the results find him in top form.

  - Mark Deming
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  The Strokes
  The New Abnormal
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  Complicated, ambitious, and emotionally raw, the band's sixth album is a surprising and rewarding triumph.

  - Heather Phares
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  Fiona Apple
  Fetch the Bolt Cutters
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  A dense, unpredictable, and joyfully cathartic fifth album from Fiona Apple.

  - Stephen Thomas Erlewine
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  Moby
  All Visible Objects
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  On his 17th LP, Moby takes it back to the dancefloor with a rousing set of nostalgic, pulsing anthems.

  - Neil Z. Yeung
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  Lucinda Williams
  Good Souls Better Angels
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  A set of raw, impassioned, and compelling performances make up for some good but not great songs.

  - Mark Deming
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  5 Seconds of Summer
  Calm
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  The Australia band's fourth album finds them embracing a light, '90s industrial goth vibe.

  - Matt Collar
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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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  Little Dragon
  New Me, Same Us
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  The quartet's sixth LP and first for Ninja Tune builds on the soul, funk, and boogie inspirations that elevated their preceding EP.

  - Andy Kellman