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Sounding more like pissed young men than a principled band in its third decade, England's New Model Army still makes fervid, dramatic punk rock that stops just short of overzealous hectoring. The powerhouse drumming and forceful vocals on their tenth album have a cranked-up sophistication, guided by a strong sense of melody.

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Arch, affected, and just a little bit sharp, Bryan Ferry's singing was as shocking and influential in the 1970s as Bob Dylan's visionary wheeze had been a decade earlier. When the Roxy Music frontman recorded the protest anthem "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall" in 1973, the collision of style and content felt more like farce than tribute.