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Moby is selling his entire record collection in the name of charity. Ahead of the big purge, the legendary producer meditates on his time collecting vinyl and explains why he's relieved to let them all go. He also offers a sneak peek at the rare finds, choice gems, and embarrassing relics everyone will find when the collection goes online at Reverb. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit mega...

18-year-old Lindsey Jordan has been steadily gaining a growing following over the last few years and with Lush , she finally delivers her debut album, a master class in how to grow out of a DIY scene without losing any of the raw charm that turned heads in the first place. An album review by Steven Edelstone, read by Cap Blackard. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices For...

With No Shame , Lily Allen has eschewed making an Irish exit from her days as a party girl and instead delivered a eulogy that gracefully buries the past while continuing to seek the sunshine of the future. An album review by Zack Ruskin, read by Eleanor Edwards. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy Adve...

so sad so sexy demonstrates Lykke Li’s refined prowess for communicating romantic turmoil, and the synth-heavy instrumentation of the record gives the indie-pop artist a new musical space within which to operate. Li understands how to use this electronic ambiance to her advantage, as the album is full of memorable hooks and sleek production. Although the trap-influenced style wears thin at times,...

On the latest Track by Track, Virginia singer-songwriter Natalie Prass explains how she rummaged through the thrift shops of music history for her sophomore album, The Future and the Past , dusting off artifacts of funk, soul, Brazilian tropicalia, indie folk, and bedazzled LA rock. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices For information regarding your data privacy, visit ac...

Age Of is the most collaborative Oneohtrix Point Never album yet, with contributions from James Blake, Prurient, Kelsey Lu, and Anohni building on both the serene beauty and abject horror. An album review by David Sackllah, read by Cap Blackard. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy Advertising Inquiries:...

Only seven tracks long, coke rap’s poet laureate continues to amaze with age as he pontificates on the hustle and grind. An album review by Gary Suarez, read by Pat Freely. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/pr...

After America got the Bad Ending on its playthrough of the 2016 presidential election, Richmond singer-songwriter Natalie Prass scrapped the intended follow-up to her stunning 2015 debut in favor of a new collection of songs inspired in equal parts by feminine resilience and a box of Janet Jackson 45s. An album review by Tyler Clark.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...

Love Is Dead is a collection of songs about grand concepts like openness, heartbreak, disappointment, and generally growing up. But without the benefit of specificity or a sharp perspective, the result is that it may be the most impersonal record that CHVRCHES have ever produced. Pain without specificity sounds a lot like numbness.  An album review by Kayleigh Hughes, read by Cap Blackard. Learn m...

God's Father Customer sees Father John Misty at his most desperate, heartbroken state, making a solid comedown record from I Love You, Honeybear and Pure Comedy that doesn’t quite hit the profound highs of its predecessors, but gets carried quite a long way on the backs of its honest songwriting. An album review by Steven Edelstone, read by Michael Roffman. Learn more about your ad choices. Vi...

As expected, Tell Me How You Really Feel still finds Courtney Barnett writing "Courtney Barnett" songs, but there’s an unmistakable growth in the Aussie’s compositions. Her strongest melodies yet meet an untrained voice that’s gaining confidence and a band (Bones Sloane, Dave Mudie, and Dan Luscombe) that’s learned to trust itself to breathe and show restraint at times rather than instinct...

After 17 years as a solo artist, Stephen Malkmus still has the ability to delight, if perhaps not outright surprise, his audience. Sparkle Hard is at once his most sonically adventurous and structurally tight set of music in over a decade and easily stands among his most rewarding work with the Jicks. Since leaving Pavement, Malkmus has always favored low-key consistency over wild experimentation,...

Easily the weirdest record in the Arctic Monkeys' catalog, Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino is a fun, flawed aberration (at least, for now). Even in failure, there's enough to explore within Alex Turner's thicket of lyrics and the haze of this inviting, yet not quite fully realized sonic setting to warrant a few active listens. Getting chemically altered and listening to this in som...

It’s impressive enough for the dream pop duo to keep making some of the best songs of their career seven albums in, when most bands would be well past their peak. By retooling their sound and shaking off any complacency that may have settled in, Beach House make their claim as one of the preeminent indie rock bands of the decade. An album review by David Sackllah, read by Pat Freely. Learn more ab...

I Have Fought Against It, But I Can’t Any Longer delivers enough new wrinkles in The Body’s sound to make this a compelling release in their catalog.  An album review by T.J. Kliebhan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redc...

The Sciences is the first album from Sleep in 15 years - roughly half newly written songs and half material that was written but not recorded prior to their lengthy hiatus. It's the same primordial rock and roll that drove the band almost 30 years ago, this time buffeted by the lessons they learned over the intervening years in their other bands.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaph...

Introducing Track by Track - a new podcast feature where we explore an album one song at a time with the artist behind it - discussing the song's origins, tales from the recording studio - every story that brought this music to life. In this episode, former Fiery Furnace, Eleanor Friedberger, finds the depths of mythology, the absurdity of text messages, and the beauty of human complexity in e...

Dirty Computer is a call for all of us to be our true and authentic selves, but especially women, queer people, and people of color. Janelle Monáe doesn't want to eliminate the oppressor, but rather, help them understand why their views are wrong. Are parties more effective than protests in changing public opinion? Dirty Computer thinks they might be. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit me...

Essential for fans and sporadically thrilling for newcomers, Eat the Elephant is the kind of reunion record that most bands would kill for. While it doesn't court the same kind of controversy as the band's previous political statements, it rewards multiple listens enough to overcome the vast majority of its shortcomings. If you've ever been angry and tired of being angry at the same ti...

Care for Me is about the woozy mix of city and family and friends and mental health ... and grief. It’s about needing care and needing self-care ... and grief, it’s about all this and more, but that grief is strong. And maybe it’s morbid to be so interested; maybe it’s emotional rubbernecking, gawping at the wreckage of someone else’s life. It’s a grief we hope to avoid and yet a grief we can'...

Virtue delivers a bracing set of experiments and amounts to the most interesting record of Julian Casablancas’ career. The band is allowed more room compared to Tyranny and the quality of the material is benefited from this, sprouting into hoary, genre-bending but ultimately tuneful psychedelic pop and rock music.  An album review by Langdon Hickman, read by Michael Roffman. Learn more about your...

Four years after the self-titled debut of their PRhyme venture, Royce da 5’9” and DJ Premier reprise the project driven by the compositions of analog revivalist Adrian Younge, with their appropriately titled 2018 sophomore album, PRhyme 2 , co-produced by criminally underrated, sample-shy Philadelphia native AntMan Wonder. The 17-track project is a booming treatise in line with Premier’s aesthetic...

Jack White’s reverence for classic music of the past is still a big part of who is he here on Boarding House Reach; he’s just shifting focus with a more manic and multi-faceted approach. That’s not weird. That’s smart. An album review by Lina Lecaro. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy Advertising Inqui...

Faced with a crossroads after the deaths of their two famed lead singers (Scott Weiland and Chester Bennington), the DeLeo brothers and drummer Eric Kretz opt to endure, recruiting former X-Factor runner-up Jeff Gutt for a collection of new material that attempts to honor the band's hard-rocking legacy while simultaneously pointing towards a new beginning.  An album review by Robert Ham, read...

Considering how quickly young bands are expected to ripen to survive in our accelerated age, Sunflower Bean has done a remarkable job evolving from the uneasy steps of their first self-released tracks to this more steady and fleshed-out album. An album review by Robert Ham. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/p...