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The experimental Brooklyn project returns with a serene and spectral new album, using an ever-shifting musical backdrop to explore themes of illusion and doubt.
Best New Albums
The most exciting and important new albums being released today.
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Lost Weekend
For her third solo album, Phoebe Bridgers expands and contracts, capturing experiences that are strange, solitary, and hers alone. It is the quietest, most cohesive record in her discography.
Somewhere Over the Rainbow
There are many rappers out there who dig deep into their lives for heavy stories of pain and sorrow. The DMV rapper does this too, but he elevates the art form to a whole new level.
Uuuuuuuu
Natal Zaks brings dub techno to a higher level on an energetic and atmospheric 2x12", another pin in the lapel of the new and outstanding Short Span label.
Music, Fashion, Film
On the follow-up to BRAT, the pop auteur pivots to a referential, proudly tossed-off rock sound that offers mystifying glances behind the curtain of stardom.
My Skyscraper
The longtime Arthur Russell collaborator finally gets a solo exhibition: a gorgeously realized and fundamentally incomplete work of sensual art-folk, leftfield disco, and experimental synth-pop. It’s at once an archival triumph and one of the year’s most thrilling new releases.
Spontaneous Music Live
The L.A. improv quintet made its first two LPs by remixing key moments from its gigs; now, on a pair of astonishing unedited live takes, the group proves that performance is the heart of its music.
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you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love
The pop star’s third album is a heartbreaking account of an intense romance and its demise. Its mood is perfectly reflected in the music, and her evolution as a songwriter is a sight to behold.
EXIT 2B
The Miami duo’s electrifying, boundary-bending combination of Haitian kompa, underground rap, reggaeton, electro-pop, and baile funk is loud as hell and rich in egalitarian spirit.
Inferno
Laced with occult imagery and enigmatic samples, the Scottish duo’s immersive new album—their first in 13 years—offers some of the most captivating music of their career.