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Nico: Chelsea Girl

On her 1967 debut album, Nico’s unmistakable voice sings the songs of Bob Dylan, Lou Reed, and Jackson Browne. *Chelsea Girl* helps define her as a mercurial aura and a manifold, complicated artist.
Source: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/nico-chelsea-girl

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U-Men: U-Men

The Seattle band U-Men released only one full-length during their eight-year run in the 1980s, but their legend loomed large over a generation. A new Sub Pop reissue collects their crucial catalog.
Source: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/u-men-u-men

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M.E.S.H.: Hesaitix

With Hesaitix, the Berlin-based DJ and producer has built a strange world that lives and breathes. It’s a catchy, fascinating electronic album that lives in a lucid unreality.
Source: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/mesh-hesaitix

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Young Lean: Stranger

The Swedish rapper’s third album offers glimpses of his full potential, songs that pierce through the detachment that once obscured real emotion.
Source: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/yung-lean-stranger

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Bed Wettin’ Bad Boys: Rot

On the follow-up to their 2013 debut LP, the beer-swilling, self-described former “party band” grows up without slowing down.
Source: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/bed-wettin-bad-boys-rot

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Pharoah Sanders: Tauhid/Jewels of Thought/Deaf Dumb Blind (Summun Bukmun Umyun)

Three invaluable reissues showcase a young bandleader and his top-tier players as they create a powerfully cohesive group sound: elegant, adventurous, warm, and ferocious all at once.
Source: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/pharoah-sanders-tauhidjewels-of-thoughtdeaf-dumb-blind-summun-bukmun-umyun

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Call Super: Arpo

The second album from producer Joe Seaton offers a rush of effervescence. With a childlike and immersive touch, he pulls apart and rearranges small, twinkling sounds.
Source: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/call-super-arpo

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Angel Olsen: Phases

This collection of B-sides, demos, and covers is terrific and revelatory in its own right. It's a trail of dropped clues to the creative process of the defiantly mercurial Olsen.
Source: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/angel-olsen-phases

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Rabit: Les Fleurs Du Mal

Eric Burton’s latest album is a logical extension of his to 2015 album Communion, an experimental world of dissolving certainty where all light is gradually leached out of the landscape.
Source: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/rabit-les-fleurs-du-mal

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Willow: The 1st

With her second album, Willow Smith opts for a more organic and raw sound. It’s a huge leap in the right direction, as she uses her guitar to channel alternative singer-songwriters of the 1990s.
Source: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/willow-the-1st

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Kllo: Backwater

The Australian duo’s debut full length features warm, pleasing vocal lines and electro-pop beats, but it never coheres to tell the kind of story they want to tell.
Source: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/kllo-backwater

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Sleigh Bells: Kid Kruschev

Like everyone else, Sleigh Bells are feeling the weight of the world in 2017. Their lean new mini-album has more thematic cohesion than their previous releases and also a surprising tenderness.
Source: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/sleigh-bells-kid-kruschev

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Curls: Vante EP

Christopher Owens, formerly of Girls, calls Curls—a trio with drummer Cody Rhodes and bassist Luke Baće—his first “real band.” Their new EP contains some of the most lavish-sounding music he has released.
Source: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/curls-vante-ep

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Maroon 5: Red Pill Blues

Adam Levine’s band return for their sixth album of smooth, professional, antiseptic soft-rock, which somehow also features Kendrick Lamar, Future, and A$AP Rocky.
Source: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/maroon-5-red-pill-blues

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Zazou/Bikaye/CY1: Noir et Blanc

Released in 1983, Noir et Blanc still sounds like a broadcast from the future—the influential work of Congolese and French musicians using analog synths, strange effects, and stranger time signatures.
Source: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/zazoubikayecy1-noir-et-blanc

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James Holden and the Animal Spirits: The Animal Spirits

Electronic producer James Holden has remade himself into a bandleader on his new album—a collection of self-described “folk-trance” recorded with improv ensemble the Animal Spirits.
Source: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/james-holden-and-the-animal-spirits-the-animal-spirits

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Peter Oren: Anthropocene

The restless singer-songwriter’s wanderlust leads him to find poetic beauty in the country’s ugly truths, even as he confronts the idea that there’s more at stake than ever.
Source: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/peter-oren-anthropocene

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Yaeji: EP2

The music of New York producer Yaeji—part house, part hip-hop—hints at strong feelings with subtle tones. On her second EP, she pushes her sound further to its poles.
Source: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/yaeji-ep2

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DJ Seinfeld: Time Spent Away From U

Behind DJ Seinfeld’s resolutely non-serious façade lies a strikingly wistful take on deep house. His debut LP pushes even further in this direction.
Source: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/dj-seinfeld-time-spent-away-from-u

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Sam Smith: The Thrill of It All

The second album from the pop crooner uses the same method that made his debut such a commercial success. His spectacular voice doles out feelings in terms everyone can understand.
Source: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/sam-smith-the-thrill-of-it-all

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