Pop
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Foxygen contributes a song inspired by ’70s TV show themes to Amazon’s upcoming American Girl special. As should be expected from the duo, notwithstanding Star Power, “Be Yourself” offers a bit of lavish psych pop and the best kind of nostalgia trip.
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My boy Mike Hadreas is back with a stirring single about breaking away from the world’s hate, set to the most primal (though still elegant) instrumental I’ve heard him take on yet! It’s off the album No Shape, which drops May 5 via Matador.
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While In Mind is Real Estate’s best-sounding album yet, the band still fails to provide anything beyond the surface of their blissful sound.
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Charli XCX continues to turn pop on its head with PC Music’s best producers.
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Ed Sheeran: The motivational poster of singer-songwriters.
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Xiu Xiu returns after a seriously prolific streak with a new collection of original material via Polyvinyl Records.
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Dirty Projectors return with an entirely revamped sound.
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Japanese singer-songwriter Shugo Tokumaru dishes out an incredibly dense and quirky variety of art pop with this lead single from his new album, Toss. The album is his most collaborative effort yet and, although it was released in Japan toward the end of last year, it’s getting a proper
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Swedish singer-songwriter Jens Lekman goes full-on pop with his follow-up to 2012’s I Know What Love Isn’t.
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This past week, Animal Collective released The Painters, an EP of four tracks recorded during the sessions of their latest album Painting With (review). You can hear the opening track above; to our ears it’s a lot more stimulating than a lot of the material that made it onto