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The avant-pop songwriter whose career has intersected with that of Ariel Pink focuses on melody and delivers a delightfully weird full-length.

Artist:John Maus

Album: We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves

Label: Ribbon Music/Upset the Rhythm

Pitchfork 8.4

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The avant-pop songwriter whose career has intersected with that of Ariel Pink focuses on melody and delivers a delightfully weird full-length.

Artist: Vybz Kartel

Album: Kingston Story

Label: Mixpak

Pitchfork 5.7

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UK bass label Hessle Audio offers its first full-length release: one disc of classic label cuts and another of new material.

Artist: Various Artists

Album: 116 & Rising

Label: Hessle

Pitchfork 7.2

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Prolific drone artist Sarah Lipstate comes into her own with her best and most distinctive record yet..

Artist: Noveller

Album: Glacial Glow

Label: Weird Forest / Saffron

Pitchfork 7.6

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Numero Group unearths a transfixing unreleased 1973 debut from a psychedelic soul band from Washington, D.C.

Artist: Father's Children

Album: Who's Gonna Save the World

Label: Numero Group

Pitchfork 7.6

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