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Sufjan and Angelo make beautiful music together.
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Despite missing some of its predecessor’s rough-and-ready charm, Any Shape You Take is a solid indie effort.
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Home Video can give off a boilerplate indie vibe, but Lucy Dacus’ vivid and charismatic songwriting is more than enough to elevate it.
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Even if it doesn’t stack up to Norman Fucking Rockwell, Chemtrails Over the Country Club is a solid songwriting statement from Lana.
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Though it boasts a grander sound than Baker’s past work, Little Oblivions is laden with unremarkable indie-isms.
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The emotionally potent and timely Carnage finds Nick Cave and Warren Ellis letting loose with the aesthetic they forged on the previous Bad Seeds trilogy.
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Hayley Williams has transposed the derivativeness of her debut album to an indie folk context.
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The Big Thief frontwoman comes through with a set of simply great songs.
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While Shore finds Fleet Foxes stumbling on a few risks, the album mostly serves to streamline the band’s sound and remind us what made them so special in the first place.
