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Not only is Wide Awake! better performed and written than any Parquet Courts album thus far, but on it the band consistently manages to make interesting artistic statements on some very difficult topics.
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Jack White’s Boarding House Reach is his most unorthodox stroke of genius since going solo.
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Nicolas Jaar’s full-length debut as Against All Logic is one of the funkiest, most entrancing, and most cutting-edge collections of house music ever produced.
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Horrifying! Portal’s Ion is one of the most dystopian and sound-rich technical death metal records of the decade.
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UK pop singer Rina Sawayama teams up with Clarence Clarity for the most vibrant, colorful, and instantly catchy pop EP of the year.
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The Mississippi quadruple threat is back with an epic double album that puts him at a new level.
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On Saturation, Brockhampton jells in a way no other group their size has in quite some time. Definitely my frontrunner for hip hop project of the year at the moment.
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Father John Misty delivers an ambitious and grand statement on the human condition with Pure Comedy, one of 2017’s most necessary albums.
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When Mark Kozelek arrives, baby, he arrives.
