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Review: Waxahatchee Brings the Pain (And ’90s Alt-Rock) on ‘Ivy Tripp’
Review: Action Bronson Painlessly Graduates From Mixtapes to Albums on ‘Mr. Wonderful’
Review: Courtney Barnett’s Exhilarating ‘Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit’
Review: Kendrick Lamar Returns With the Great American Hip-Hop Album, ‘To Pimp a Butterfly’
Review: Colleen Green Can Do Whatever She Wants on the Confessional ‘I Want to Grow Up’
Review: Torche Are So Un-Metal They’re Actually Metal on ‘Restarter’
Review: Father John Misty’s Breathtaking ‘I Love You, Honeybear’
Review: Sleater-Kinney Return With the Swaggering ‘No Cities To Love’
Review: Panda Bear Explores the Rabbit Hole on ‘Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper’
Review: D’Angelo Brings Organic Funk Back to Life on the Epochal ‘Black Messiah’
Review: Ariel Pink Makes Another Wondrous Mess With ‘pom pom’
Review: Andy Stott’s Beautiful and Brutal Electronic Epic, ‘Faith in Strangers’
Review: Run the Jewels’ Incendiary ‘Run the Jewels 2’
Review: Betty Who’s Sparkly-Eyed ‘Take Me When You Go’
Hell? Yes! Midnight’s ‘No Mercy for Mayhem’ Is Majestically Satanic
Millennial Tension: FKA Twigs Arrives With the Menacing, Incandescent ‘LP1’
The Beautiful Game: Shabazz Palaces’ Enthralling, Convoluted ‘Lese Majesty’
On Handjobs and Hopelessness: The Lovesick Zeal of Jenny Lewis’ ‘The Voyager’
Elly Jackson (Re)Discovers Her Voice on La Roux’s ’80s Romp ‘Trouble in Paradise’
Parquet Courts Are Inscrutably Awesome on ‘Sunbathing Animal’ (Which Does Not Sound Like Pavement)
Swans’ ‘To Be Kind’ Is a Monolithic Orgy of Blood, Guts, and…Love
tUnE-yArDs Transform Turbulence into Transcendence on Exultant ‘Nikki Nack’
Damon Albarn’s Modern Life Is Rubbish on Endearingly Great ‘Everyday Robots’
Future Brings Humility, Sincerity and a Nonsensical Kanye to the Stunning ‘Honest’
Kelis Serves a Soul Buffet From Space on Surreal, Tasty ‘Food’
Protomartyr Open a Can of Post-Punk, Whoop-Ass on ‘Under Color of Official Right’
Hole’s ‘Live Through This’: Read SPIN’s 1994 Review
Cloud Nothings Hit Emo’s Sweet (And Sour) Spot on ‘Here And Nowhere Else’
Future Islands Channel Synth-Pop Greats, William Shatner on ‘Singles’
YG and DJ Mustard Make a Ratchet Music Masterpiece With ‘My Krazy Life’
The War on Drugs Conjure a Gorgeous, Wide-Open Claustrophobia on ‘Lost in the Dream’
Neneh Cherry’s ‘Blank Project’ Is an Ocean of Intimate, Nonchalantly Electrifying Funk
Annie Clark Burns Down the Boys’ Club on the Poised, Effortless ‘St. Vincent’
Eric Church Plays Both Suave Rock God and Country Music Jesus on ‘The Outsiders’
Actress’ ‘Ghettoville’ Is a Spectacularly Icy Riot of Grouchy, Grimey Outsider Dance Music
Against Me! Challenge Old Fans and Mint New Ones With ‘Transgender Dysphoria Blues’
Beyonce Outdoes Herself (and Everyone Else) With the Humanizing, Superhuman ‘Beyonce’
Death Grips Are Through Being Polite on the Manic, Defiant ‘Government Plates’
John Talabot’s Extraordinary ‘DJ-Kicks’ Entry Is a Love Letter to the Warm-Up Set
The Necks Bend Space and Time With the Ambient-Jazz Triumph ‘Open’
Omar Souleyman’s Intense, Swooning ‘Wenu Wenu’ Brings Dabke to the Club-Kid Masses
Tim Hecker Conducts Harrowing, Thrilling Drone Warfare on His New Masterpiece, ‘Virgins’
Matana Roberts Weaves Stunning Avant-Jazz Tapestry on ‘Coin Coin Chapter Two: Mississippi Moonchile’
Haim’s ‘Days Are Gone’ Is a Canny, Calculated Burst of ’80s Art-Pop Perfection
Bill Callahan Is a Fount of Gorgeously Economical Gravitas on ‘Dream River’
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