Here’s a rundown of the best and worst albums available online and in record stores today:
Mark Ronson & The Business Intl., Record Collection
Room-Service Soul: Music’s biggest insider commandeers penthouse suite
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Ben Folds & Nick Hornby, Lonely Avenue
Piano man, High Fidelity scribe feel for underdogs
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Pete Yorn, Pete Yorn
Peppier songs, Pixie dust gives much-needed jolt
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Compact Discs: Sound of the Future
No Age, Everything in Between
DIY Dreaming: Punk duo demand that you please touch the art
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Deerhunter, Halcyon Digest
Deceptive shimmer hides dark, disquieting depths
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Bad Religion, The Dissent of Man
Professorial punks still agitating the classroom
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Aloe Blacc, Good Things
Heartfelt songs for hard times, with old-soul elan
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Fences , Fences
Just completed his degree in authentic emoting
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Glasser, Ring
Luring you into her ritual with laptop-folk sorcery
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Jimmy Eat World, Invented
Hot Topic heroes still empathizing like champs
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Restless People, Restless People
Living in Williamsburg is so effin’ rad, am I right?!
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Laetitia Sadier, The Trip
Belle chanteuse answers tragedy with loveliness
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Salem, King Night
Witchy house coven will gladly curse your buzz
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