8/10
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Beyoncé drops her most conceptual and mature album yet — as well as what’s likely to be the best pop record of the year.
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Singer-songwriter Sturgill Simpson comes through with the classiest country album I’ve heard in a while.
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Damn, Weezer! Back at it again with the White Album!
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Masterminded by producer Dave Cobb, this compilation brings together some of the best and brightest voices contemporary alternative country has to offer.
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Australia’s The Drones are back with their most instrumentally and lyrically dense album yet.
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Florida rapper Denzel Curry comes through with some of his most introspective and savage tracks yet on Imperial.
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Neil Cicierega returns with a new Lemon Demon album, featuring the project’s catchiest and most eccentric set of songs yet. Very nerdy, very catchy.
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kendrick lamar. new album. untitled. unmastered.
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NY post-hardcore outfit Big Ups return with a slightly more abstract–and Slint-influenced–approach on their latest album here.
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Charli XCX and PC Music’s SOPHIE team up for an awesome EP.
