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The new collaboration between the prolific Dan Melchior and Austin’s Spray Paint make mountains out of mantras across a jammy, post-punk album that barrels like an 18-wheeler down the highway.Source: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/contributors-contributors
Petra Glynt: This Trip
On her debut album, Montreal visual artist-turned-electronic pop provocateur Alexandra Mackenzie makes vital protest music that summons collective strength to overcome existential fear.Source: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/petra-glynt-this-trip
The 6ths: Wasps’ Nests
In 1995, Stephin Merritt released a major-label synth-pop LP as the 6ths. He wrote all the songs but enlisted others to sing them, including Lou Barlow, Dean Wareham, Georgia Hubley, and Mary Timony.Source: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/the-6ths-wasps-nests
Posse: Horse Blanket
The Seattle indie rock band’s final record is a great parting gift, one with generous portions of wit, melancholy, and even one long guitar solo.Source: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/posse-horse-blanket
Caracara: Summer Megalith
The debut album from Caracara—co-produced by former Modern Baseball frontman Jacob Ewald—is dynamic and diffuse, drawing on slowcore, gothic folk, post-hardcore, and more.Source: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/caracara-summer-megalith
Silvia Kastel: Air Lows
The fifth full-length from the experimental Berlin-based musician offers a meditation on negativity that’s dreary and enervating in equal turns.Source: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/silvia-kastel-air-lows
Charlotte Gainsbourg: Rest
Sung mostly in French, Gainsbourg’s gripping new album finds her in the tangles of grief. It is at once scorchingly intimate and fantastically oversized.Source: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/charlotte-gainsbourg-rest
Gord Downie: Introduce Yerself
Recorded in his final months and released 10 days after his death, the Tragically Hip frontman’s final album is a farewell and a testament, at once wistful and playful, urgent and defiantly hopeful.Source: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/gord-downie-introduce-yerself
The Body/Full of Hell: Ascending a Mountain of Heavy Light
The second collaboration between the two experimental metal bands feels necessary. They bands flood the gap between doom and grindcore with all kinds of stunts, risks, and tricks.Source: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/the-body-and-full-of-hell-ascending-a-mountain-of-heavy-light
Martin Carr: New Shapes of Life
The Boo Radleys mastermind returns with a suave, sophisticated, rhythmically robust pop record whose swagger belies deep-seated feelings of disillusionment, self-doubt, and paranoia.Source: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/martin-carr-new-shapes-of-life
Why Khaliq: The Mustard Seed
The St. Paul rapper’s latest album is a study in faith and focus. His acrobatic rapping, rich hooks, and warm textures create a soulful record full of high stakes and interior depth.Source: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/why-khaliq-the-mustard-seed
Mavis Staples: If All I Was Was Black
Mavis Staples presents her signature hope on the taut and lively If All I Was Was Black, another collaboration with Jeff Tweedy. But it doesn’t come as naturally as it once did, as she makes clear.Source: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/mavis-staples-if-all-i-was-was-black
Wiz Khalifa: Laugh Now, Fly Later
Across a relatively lean, stakes-free mixtape, Wiz Khalifa riffs on his only meaningful muse, weed, with a level of buy-in that he rarely grants his commercial projects.Source: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/wiz-khalifa-laugh-now-fly-later
Quicksand: Interiors
The first album in 22 years from seminal New York post-hardcore band Quicksand is a structurally-obsessed work where beauty and brutality coexist.Source: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/quicksand-interiors
Gun Outfit: Out of Range
Now relocated to Los Angeles, the five-piece moves comfortably into breezy, slow-going, cosmic country as both an escape and a protest.Source: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/gun-outfit-out-of-range
Hiroshi Yoshimura: Music for Nine Postcards
Inspired by a series of window views, Japanese ambient pioneer Hiroshi Yoshimura’s 1982 album Music for Nine Postcards has a disarming presence, cutting sweetly into the listener’s reality.Source: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/hiroshi-yoshimura-music-for-nine-postcards
Golden Teacher: No Luscious Life
The Glasgow sextet brings a healthy dose of dub to its spiky punk-acid-disco fusion, to party-starting (and occasionally political) effect.Source: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/golden-teacher-no-luscious-life
Slaughter Beach, Dog: Birdie
With the second album from his Slaughter Beach, Dog project, Jake Ewald of Modern Baseball has found his voice as a musician, though he’s still searching as a writer.Source: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/slaughter-beach-dog-birdie
Champion: Snapshot
The debut long-player from UK funky pioneer Reiss Hanson, aka Champion, is high-energy bass music as bare-knuckled pointillism. His recordings have rarely sounded more dynamic or more colorful.Source: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/champion-snapshot
R.E.M.: Automatic for the People
In 1992, R.E.M. were the biggest, most important rock band in America. This reissue of their multi-platinum smash, 25 years later, highlights a brooding, transitional album that still resonates.Source: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/rem-automatic-for-the-people
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