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As the pre-holiday album releases continue their surge, today sees another handful of high-profile new records. Akon’s Freedom. Jody Rosen says Akon is “secretly an old-fashioned romantic, and his third album is his most heart-on-sleeve.” Click below for the full reviews of Freedom and Circus, as well as a look at Neil Young’s long-lost Sugar Mountain: Live at Canterbury House 1968.

• Album Review: Akon, Freedom

• Album Review: Britney Spears, Circus

• Album Review: Neil Young, Sugar Mountain: Live at Canterbury House 1968

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