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Iron & Wine  Light Verse

On his first album of new material in six years, Sam Beam mines the onset of middle age for sharp-eyed songs that are lively and relatively breezy, despite the melancholy subject matter Pitchfork

Iron & Wine  Light Verse

Light Verse turns out to be one of the most enjoyable, varied, and well-crafted of the band's records All Music

St. Vincent  All Born Screaming

Clark has more than earned the freedom she gives herself to express so many different sides to her music, and it's a thrill to hear her stretch out on these ferocious, heartbroken, and ultimately life-affirming songs All Music

Sheer Mag  Playing Favorites

Playing Favorites proves that joy can show up defiantly, wearing a sleeveless denim vest, and sometimes, a rollicking good time is the glue holding our hearts together Spin

Justin Timberlake   Everything I Thought It Was

An album that’s everything you thought it was but has nothing to say Spin

Tierra Whack  World Wide Whack

Stretches Whack’s stylistic range, reintroducing an artist who seems more deeply in tune with her emotions Spin

Mannequin Pussy  I Got Heaven

The record’s disparate strands mostly hold together, a formidable document of their fire and fury—and one that’s needed more than ever Spin

Bolis Pupul  Letter to Yu

These songs never reach catharsis or resolution to their grand queries, but nonetheless find moments of joy in the process of seeking answers Spin

Khruangbin  A LA SALA

It’s hard to be so stylized yet retain Khruangbin’s kind of staying power. You could kill the reverb and A LA SALA would still prevail Spin

Vampire Weekend  Only God Was Above Us

All in all, Only God is a classic Vampire Weekend record, for those seeking exactly that Spin

Maggie Rogers  Don't Forget Me

With Don’t Forget Me, Rogers sounds fully confident abandoning the glossiness of her earliest work—she doesn’t need studio flourishes to bolster her transcendent songwriting Spin

Mount Kimbie  The Sunset Violent

Mount Kimbie are letting their songs smolder into life’s discontent. That uncomfortable tension is The Sunset Violent’s beauty Spin

Pearl Jam  Dark Matter

Is Dark Matter that different from immediate predecessors Backspacer, Lightning Bolt, and Gigaton? Not really. But is it somehow Pearl Jammier, in an ineffable sense? Yep—in fact, it’s something special Spin

A Certain Ratio  It All Comes Down To This

Nearly a half-century into their run, A Certain Ratio have plenty to teach but remain eager to learn—and, above all, to keep the party going Spin

Beyoncé  Cowboy Carter

As both a treatise and a sonic testament, ‘COWBOY CARTER’ is its own triumph; unmoored in form, space and time, it’s the work of a preternatural talent painstakingly poring over every word, stratified vocal, sample and stylistic flourish Clash