Wilco Get Back to the Roots They Never Had on ‘Cruel Country’
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Their latest is a beautifully rootsy album with a broken sense of patriotic concern
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Tate McRae Bares Her Soul a Little Unevenly on ‘I Used to Think I Could Fly’
Posted in: Album ReviewsThe rising Canadian pop singer's genre pivots can lack cohesion, but she powers through with rage-filled anthems and cathartic ballads.
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Kevin Morby Travels to Memphis and Has a Metaphysical Reawakening on ‘This Is a Photograph’
Posted in: Album ReviewsThe singer-songwriter's seventh album is a house of spirits, haunted by the ghosts of Jeff Buckley, of Jay Reatard, of childhood and innocence and moments long past
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Kendrick Lamar Has Been Going Through Something
Posted in: Album ReviewsThe Pulitzer Prize-winning rapper spends much of his fifth studio album deconstructing his own mythology. The result is at moments brilliant but on the whole, frustratingly uneven
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Harry Styles’ ‘Harry’s House’ is a Smooth, Sensitive Step Forward For One of Pop’s Most Likable Stars
Posted in: Album ReviewsHarry Styles delivers sleek, heartfelt pop pleasures on his great third album
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Becky G Grabs Her Own Spotlight on the Excellent ‘Esquemas’
Posted in: Album ReviewsThe ascending Mexican American star's sonic choices have never felt more deliberate or personal
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No Inflatable Penis, But Plenty of Blues: Rolling Stones Unleash Rare Live 1977 Club Tapes
Posted in: Album ReviewsIntimate Toronto shows offer a glimpse of the band playing with a ferocity that proves they were more than bored, disconnected rock stars.
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Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood Go Off the Clock and Have a Good Time on the Smile’s Debut
Posted in: Album ReviewsRadiohead's songwriting nucleus team with jazz drummer Tom Skinner on 'A Light for Attracting Attention,' a lower-stakes, jammy album with some of their most straightforward songs in years
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Black Keys Get Loose and Stretch Out on ‘Dropout Boogie’
Posted in: Album ReviewsZZ Top's Billy Gibbons is among the guests on the long-running arena-garage band's latest
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Florence + the Machine’s ‘Dance Fever’ is an Ecstatic Prayer for Post-Pandemic Redemption
Posted in: Album ReviewsShe chases her errent impulses down whichever mossy, forked path they might lead her
