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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.
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Mouth Moods is Neil Cicierega’s most masterful mashup of meme music yet.
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After nearly two decades, A Tribe Called Quest returns to rap one last time without skipping a beat.