Review: Avril Lavigne Goes the Breakup-Album Route on ‘Head Above Water’
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Returning after illness and divorce, the former pop-punker has a love hangover and a chance for rebirth
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Review: Florida Georgia Line Sound Awfully Defensive on ‘Can’t Say I Ain’t Country’
Posted in: Album ReviewsNashville's poets laureate of keg stands try to grow up on album four
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Review: Ariana Grande Moves on in Spectacular Style With ‘Thank U, Next’
Posted in: Album ReviewsSinger's second album in six months is a glorious pop rush, going double-for-nothing after the success of 2018's 'Sweetener'
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Review: Bob Mould Channels Hüsker Dü on Savagely Upbeat ‘Sunshine Rock’
Posted in: Album ReviewsIt's a pleasure to hear new music from Mould during America’s current cultural crisis. What may surprise you is how violently happy he can sound
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Review: Cass McCombs’ Trippy, Guitar-Charged ‘Tip of The Sphere’
Posted in: Album ReviewsIndie rock vet refracts Americana from the Grateful Dead to Walmart on shapeshifting new LP
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Review: Jessica Pratt Conjures an Uneasy Dream Space on ‘Quiet Signs’
Posted in: Album ReviewsCalifornia singer-songwriter’s third LP is full of hazily gorgeous songs with dark shadows
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Review: Backstreet’s Back With Contemporary-Pop Magic on ‘DNA’
Posted in: Album ReviewsOn their first chart-topping album in nearly 20 years, the Boys pair their group-vocal magic with contemporary pop written and produced by top-tier technicians
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Review: Indie-rock Internationalists Beirut Return With the Haunting ‘Gallipoli’
Posted in: Album ReviewsFrom his new base in Berlin — as well as New York and Southern Italy — indie-rock expat Zach Condon delivers his most emotional set yet.
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British Ska-Punk Legends the Specials Return in Top Form on ‘Encore’
Posted in: Album ReviewsThirty-eight years later, the leaders of the anti-racist 2 Tone movement return with sound and politics intact
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Review: Girlpool Evolve on ‘What Chaos Is Imaginary’
Posted in: Album ReviewsL.A. duo reach toward a new creative existence on their impressive third LP
