7/10
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UK rapper Skepta comes through with an album that’s sure to spread the grime gospel.
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Animal Collective’s Deakin drops his full-length debut.
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PJ Harvey continues with the art rock instrumentation and political themes from her last album, bringing them to variety of different locations.
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Open Mike Eagle & Paul White come together for a smart, solid collaborative album.
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Black Mountain returns with a solid rock record that’s equal parts heavy psych and sci-fi synth.
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UK rapper Kano drops his most varied, mature album yet.
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The Body and Full of Hell come together for one of the most hellish collaborative albums you’re gonna hear this year.
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Atlanta rapper and auto-tuned crooner Lil Yachty somehow inserts a feeling of innocence into the trap world with his odd voice and blissful production on this breakout mixtape.
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Rock legend Iggy Pop teams up with personnel from Queens of the Stone Age and Arctic Monkeys for a new album.
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Finland’s Oranssi Pazuzu returns with an album full of psychedelic black metal mayhem.
