Recent Protest Releases

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  Petite Noir
  La Maison Noir/The Black House
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  The project's dynamic third mini-album broadens its scope and brings its African influences to the fore.

  - Heather Phares
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  Anderson .Paak
  Oxnard
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  The singer/rapper's third album and Aftermath debut is a little deeper and richer than 2016's Grammy-nominated Malibu.

  - Andy Kellman
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  Low
  Double Negative
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  The slowcore icons create a disturbing and evocative set of soundscapes depicting a dark, forbidding time and place.

  - Mark Deming
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  Escape-Ism
  The Lost Record
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  Second album from Ian Svenonius' low-tech electronic project is less stark but just as smart.

  - Mark Deming
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  Ambrose Akinmusire
  Origami Harvest
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  The trumpeter's ambitious if somewhat frustating collaboration with rapper Kool A.D. and Brooklyn's Mivos Quartet.

  - Matt Collar
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  Thalia Zedek
  Fighting Season
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  Nine songs of resistance in a time of chaos and division; a literate and compelling album from the former leader of Come.

  - Mark Deming
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  Noname
  Room 25
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  Remarkable debut album from Chicagoan rapper/poet Noname, effortlessly blending introspection with humor over lush, jazzy arrangements.

  - Paul Simpson
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  Will Hoge
  My American Dream
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  A politically impassioned howl of protest.

  - Stephen Thomas Erlewine
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  Boygenius
  Boygenius
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  Debut EP by this indie songwriter supergroup finds the band going places collaboratively that each member couldn't reach on her own.

  - Fred Thomas