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Sony Music
AllMusic Rating: 4.5 stars
A box set of seven previously unreleased albums that find the heartland rock hero expanding his creative boundaries.
- Mark Deming
Republic
AllMusic Rating: 4.5 stars
The New Zealand singer's fourth album is a boldly candid, potent declaration of personal and creative reawakening.
- Matt Collar
Sub Pop
AllMusic Rating: 4.0 stars
As Greta Kline enters her thirties, Katie von Schleicher and Hugo Stanley (Palm) join the band for 17 soft bops preoccupied by time and change.
- Marcy Donelson
ATO
AllMusic Rating: 4.5 stars
The guitarist/producer's second batch of collaborations with first-rate vocalists proves just as transcendent and important.
- Tim Sendra
Dead Oceans
R&B
AllMusic Rating: 4.0 stars
The ballad-rich fourth album from the creative throwbacks is a lowrider soul delight.
- Andy Kellman
Big Bosses Ent. / SoNo Recording Group
R&B
AllMusic Rating: 3.0 stars
The actress, singer, and songwriter works through a public breakup with help from Tayla Parx (Ariana Grande, Shakira, Jennie).
- Andy Kellman
Columbia / Sony CMG / Sony Music
AllMusic Rating: 3.5 stars
The pop legend's follow-up to her 2014 album of duets with fellow icons and rising stars.
- Matt Collar
Sun Records
AllMusic Rating: 3.5 stars
This solo effort from the raucous pedal steel virtuoso ponders the sacred while cranking out the profane in lively style.
- Mark Deming

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A content creator who spans every imaginable outlet, Alex Warren stepped out from behind the phone and into the recording studio to introduce his passionate singer/songwriter pop. Warren first gained attention for his skateboarding videos on YouTube, and soon specialized in comedy and vlogging. By 2021, he'd branched out into music, crafting quivering, sensitive, confessional pop tunes. Sounding vaguely reminiscent of such electronic-inflected singer/songwriters like Jack Garratt, Alex Warren slathers…  Read More about Alex Warren

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January, 1993
The singer/songwriter's second 4AD album is rooted in a type of highly orchestrated folk-rock pitched somewhere between Nick Drake and Sandy Denny on the one hand and southern California soft rock on the other. It has a notably live and largely acoustic sound, free of the label's usual phalanx of effects pedals and keyboards, although the carefully layered arrangements, featuring strings, acoustic guitars, piano, occasional steel guitar accents, and various forms of hand percussion, remain as lush and textured as ever. As a result, it has a timelessness many other albums from this time and place lack.
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