Recent Heartache Releases

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  Kylie Minogue
  Golden
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  After a run of strong dance-pop albums, Minogue channels heartbreak and country music into something shiny, sad, and very Nashville circa 2018.

  - Tim Sendra
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  Toni Braxton
  Sex & Cigarettes
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  Brief, frank, and tightly concentrated set of breakup material from the recent Soul Train Legend Award winner.

  - Andy Kellman
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  Chvrches
  Love Is Dead
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  Working with Dave Stewart and Greg Kurstin, the trio dances on its troubles with a few new moves.

  - Heather Phares
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  5 Seconds of Summer
  Youngblood
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  The heretofore pop-punky Australian boy band shifts toward a slick dance-pop sound on its third album.

  - Matt Collar
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  Godsmack
  When Legends Rise
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  Massachusetts hard rock vets veer in new directions on their polished but no less powerful seventh set.

  - Neil Z. Yeung
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  Kurt Elling
  The Questions
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  Elling's second album with saxophonist Branford Marsalis is a deeply poetic, lyrical set.

  - Matt Collar
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  Bonnie "Prince" Billy
  Wolf of the Cosmos
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  Will Oldham puts his spin on Susanna's album Sonata Mix Dwarf Cosmos, making these songs his own.

  - Mark Deming
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  Beach House
  7
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  Working with Sonic Boom and live drummer James Barone, the duo delivers some of its widest-ranging, most exhilarating music of its career.

  - Heather Phares
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  Lykke Li
  so sad so sexy
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  The Swedish singer's heartbreaking fourth set laments the last gasps of a relationship with cold pop production.

  - Neil Z. Yeung
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  Mat Kearney
  Crazytalk
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  The AAA singer/songwriter veteran eases into EDM.

  - Stephen Thomas Erlewine