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  1. Kacey Musgraves’s Golden Hour Is 2018’s Country Album to BeatHer third album makes any objections about her style and image now seem embarrassing.
    By Craig Jenkins
  2. Jack White and Julian Casablancas Show Their Age on New AlbumsJack White sounds tired of being Jack White, while Julian Casablancas is still sorting out the many things he can be.
    By Craig Jenkins
  3. Snoop Dogg’s New Gospel Album, Bible of Love, Is Surprisingly GreatIt’s a warm, wise survey of gospel music’s past, present, and possible future that works better than it should.
    By Craig Jenkins
  4. Logic’s Bobby Tarantino II Forgets What’s Great About LogicThe newly self-conscious rapper’s latest mixtape finds him forcing himself out of his wheelhouse, with uneven results.
    By Craig Jenkins
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    Music Review: A Double Dose of Pierre Boulez’s RéponsThe composer’s electronic manifesto returns.
    By Justin Davidson
  6. On LCD Soundsystem’s American Dream, James Murphy Rediscovers His PurposeThe front man has always been obsessed with how he lived his life, but he had to take a couple years away from music to clarify his perspective.
    By Craig Jenkins
  7. Lorde’s Melodrama Satirizes and Exemplifies a Great Breakup RecordThe album is split between heartbroken displeasure and moments of clarity.
    By Craig Jenkins
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    Album Review: Brad Paisley’s Love and War Is a Welcome Return to FormOn record, Brad Paisley makes a quiet life sound deeply rewarding.
    By Craig Jenkins
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    Kendrick Lamar’s DAMN. Is a Brilliant, Anxious Reflection of the WorldIt’s been two years since Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp a Butterfly, and we are not alright.
    By Craig Jenkins
  10. The Chainsmokers’ Nostalgia for the Recent Past Is Not EnoughThis is music tailor-made for being sad about the recent past.
    By Craig Jenkins
  11. Blood Orange’s Freetown Sound Is the ‘Passion’ of Black America Protest music you can dance and cry to. 
    By Craig Jenkins
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    Boomer Rock Icons Are Back, and Their Albums Aren’t BadPaul McCartney, Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, Neil Young, and Paul Simon are all releasing new material.
    By Craig Jenkins
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    On Their Third Album, Tame Impala Achieve Psych-Rock NirvanaThe sublime Currents proves that Kevin Parker has realized how much more he can do with less.
    By Lindsay Zoladz
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    Disco Godfather Giorgio Moroder Goes Back to the Future on Déjà VuThe disco futurist returns with his first solo album in 30 years.
    By Lindsay Zoladz
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    Sleater-Kinney’s No Cities to Love Is a Rock TriumphAfter ten years away, the band roars back with No Cities to Love. 
    By Lindsay Zoladz
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    Mark Ronson’s Uptown Special Transcends PasticheWith help from Bruno Mars and Michael Chabon, the producer proves he’s more than the sum of his influences.
    By Lindsay Zoladz
  17. Rae Sremmurd Are Rap’s Most Fun New WeirdosThe duo’s Sremmlife turns positivity into a kind of defiance.
    By Lindsay Zoladz
  18. D’Angelo’s Black Messiah Is a Sly, Bold ComebackYes, it was worth the wait. But it’s worth more than that, too.
    By Lindsay Zoladz
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    Nicki Minaj’s The Pinkprint Is a Badass Breakup AlbumSo much depended upon The Pinkprint. Too much, probably.
    By Lindsay Zoladz
  20. Hearing Gabriel Kahane’s Version of Los Angeles, Onstage at BAMA review of The Ambassador onstage.
    By Justin Davidson
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    Album Review: Jessie Ware’s Tough LoveTough Love finds her venturing just far enough out of her comfort zone to breathe new life into her sound.
    By Lindsay Zoladz
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    Album Review: Perfume Genius’s Too BrightHis fantastic new album Too Bright is full of sounds nobody would have ever associated with Perfume Genius.
    By Lindsay Zoladz
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    U2’s Songs of Innocence Is Totally Gorgeous, Totally BoringGood luck telling these songs apart.
    By Lindsay Zoladz
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    Rosen: Beck’s Morning Phase Is Expertly Made, But a Terminal BummerIt’s not clear what exactly Beck is bummed out about, but he is bummed indeed.
    By Jody Rosen
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    Rosen: Eric Church Smashes Bro-Country Clichés on The OutsidersHis new album is his best yet.
    By Jody Rosen
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    Jody Rosen’s Snap Judgments on Beyoncé’s Surprise New AlbumExpect a full review next week, but our critic’s overall feeling after a couple of listens: on balance, a very fine record.
    By Jody Rosen
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    Jody Rosen on Katy Perry’s Half-Baked Prism: Dr. Luke Let Her DownThe songs on Prism feel both overdetermined and underdone.
    By Jody Rosen
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    Music Review: Drake’s Nothing Was the SameBefore Drake, rappers were like Jay Z: braggarts. Drake is a humblebraggart.
    By Jody Rosen
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    Rosen on Janelle Monáe’s The Electric LadyWhatever you think of Janelle Monáe as a singer, songwriter, and performer, this much is undeniable: She is an excellent concept.
    By Jody Rosen
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    Rosen: Brandy Clark’s 12 Stories Is My Favorite Album of 2013I’ve been listening nonstop.
    By Jody Rosen
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    Jody Rosen on Jay-Z’s Mailed-In Magna Carta … Holy GrailThe best way to listen to this half-assed record is to half-listen.
    By Jody Rosen
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    Rosen on Kanye West’s Yeezus: The Least Sexy Album of 2013With Kanye, it’s always more is more. More politics, more ego, more outrage. More croissants.
    By Jody Rosen
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    Rosen: The Lonely Island Lead the Pop-Parody BoomA decade ago, who’d have guessed that three dorked-out comedians could command a guest list worthy of a Jay-Z record?
    By Jody Rosen
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    Rosen on Miley Cyrus’s ‘We Can’t Stop’The Miley Cyrus single is one of the most crudely effective songs of the year — although to call it a song seems generous.
    By Jody Rosen
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    Jody Rosen on Papoose’s Triumphant Summer Jam Stage InvasionPapoose took the stage, unannounced and uninvited, between sets by Kendrick Lamar and French Montana.
    By Jody Rosen
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    Abebe: On Coexist, the xx Stay Intimate by Getting GranderOn their sophomore album, the British trio face an audience that’s built up a tolerance for their sound.
    By Nitsuh Abebe
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    Music Review: Dan Deacon and Matthew Dear Our music critic reviews Deacon’s America and Dear’s Beams.
    By Nitsuh Abebe
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    Music Review: Abebe on Write Me Back and the Multifaceted R. KellyRobert Kelly — Chicago institution, “Pied Piper of R&B,” formally acquitted of ignoble charges nobody’s forgotten — has a new record out this week.
    By Nitsuh Abebe
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    Lovable, Talented Bore Jack White Stretches Out on His New Solo AlbumWas a White Stripes breakup the best thing that could have happened to this songwriter?
    By Nitsuh Abebe
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    Pulp’s Reunion Show Is the Greatest Revival in MidtownThe enduring appeal of Jarvis Cocker’s “slightly shady form of glamour.”
    By Boris Kachka
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    The Indie-Folk Crossover: Commercials for Our Selves in a Hunger Games WorldTwilight’s emo-gothic glitter has been replaced by a hardscrabble, triumphal, suspender-friendly sound.
    By Nitsuh Abebe
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    Music Review: The Apathy and Ecstasy of Madonna’s MDNAMadge gets lost on her latest return to the dance floor.
    By Nitsuh Abebe
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    Bruce Springsteen Was the Past and the Present at the Apollo Friday NightHe’s still the hardest working white man in show business at 62.
    By Lizzy Goodman
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    Estelle, Robert Glasper, and the Inescapable Chris BrownNew albums by the British soul singer and American pianist-turned-bandleader. Plus, why Brown is the Monsanto of R&B.
    By Nitsuh Abebe
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    Prinzhorn Dance School: The Beauty of Obsessive, Barking English PeopleThe most wonderfully beady-eyed band in recent memory puts out a great second album.
    By Nitsuh Abebe
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    Lana Del Rey: Lurching Toward VegasThe polarizing singer’s debut album reviewed.
    By Nitsuh Abebe
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    Lost in Dream-Pop: Shimmering New Music From King Krule and Bradford CoxA London teenager and a Georgia indie-rock leader find a common sound.
    By Nitsuh Abebe
  48. Superhero Rap: Jay-Z and Kanye West Live at MSGKicking over buildings, snapping necks.
    By Nitsuh Abebe
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    How Coldplay Became Possibly the First Band to Be Humanized by a Concept AlbumThe charming theatricality of ‘Mylo Xyloto’ actually brings Coldplay’s mid-tempo pomp uplift down to earth.
    By Nitsuh Abebe
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    Watch the Throne: Uneasy Heads Wear Gaudy CrownsThe new album from Kanye West and Jay-Z is equal parts tiresome and fascinating.
    By Nitsuh Abebe
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