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New Reviews for September 27, 2024

Reprise

The progressive bluegrass phenom's fourth album is a sprawling, freewheeling set co-produced by Jon Brion.

- Timothy Monger

Various Artists

Light in the Attic Records

Compiled output from Lou Reed's brief tenure as a record label's staff songwriter shortly before he formed the Velvet Underground.

- Fred Thomas

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Warp

The group's final release brings listeners closer than ever to their music with pared-down versions of some of their best-loved songs.

- Heather Phares

Loma Vista

An inspired and uplifting meeting between two figures crucial to hip-hop for over 30 years.

- Andy Kellman

Bayonet Records

The Austin, Texas duo enlisted producer John Congleton to reinvigorate their '60s-indebted sound on a (psych/garage) rock-solid 16-track sophomore LP.

- Marcy Donelson

4AD

Collecting the band's first three 4AD albums and plentiful bonus material, this set documents their inventive, emotive dream-pop brilliance.

- Heather Phares

Sub Pop

In his first solo excursion since the end of his band Low, Sparhawk uses synths, drum machines, and vocoded vocals to explore grief.

- Fred Thomas

Brainfeeder

The duo stick to the globally informed, jazz-adjacent neo-psychedelia of their first two albums with winning results.

- Tim Sendra

Editors' Choice for September, 2024

AllMusic Staff Pick - October 1, 2024

March, 1982

The Misfits' 1982 debut full-length rapidly became a legendary effort of U.S. punk, the more so because it so willfully violated many rules which were already ironically straitjacketing the scene. Nearly every song on the album -- 13 total, delivered in a light-speed 25 minutes -- is a twisted classic, with the band's trademark '50s/'60s melodies run through a punk/metal meatgrinder on full display.
- Ned Raggett