Doug Mosurock
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Meg Baird leads a supergroup with the skills, the background and the vision to play dark acid-folk for a modern generation.
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The London grunge-pop band may not make the rules, but it knows just how to tweak them for maximum emotional resonance.
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Carrying on the non-stop activity of the last eight years, the prolific rocker's 10th solo album feels as fractured and delirious as anything he's recorded.
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Referencing the cult favorites Sun City Girls, Brooklyn's lo-fi folk-pop concern moves into a late-evening vibe full of mariachi horns, hazy psychedelia and cinematic intrigue.
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Ty Segall's power trio heaves forth a 14-song double album that's made for headbanging and the cultivation of bad vibes, as if all the warmth and goodwill of last year's Manipulator had turned to ash.
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As the leader of Wavves, Nathan Williams has spent five albums grafting big emotions onto a restless runaround of energetic pop-punk and stoner fuzz.
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The paths forged by the boundary-pushing Swedish psych-rock band have gotten harder to define, but they're also more rewarding to follow.
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More two-minute, psychedelic garage-rock from the prolific Los Angeles trio, packing purist intentions and an inescapable weirdness.
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Foxygen's Shaun Fleming aspires to a '70s ideal that rolls up sugarcoated bubblegum glam, soul balladry, Francophone pop and echoes of the Brill Building.
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Finding inspiration in 1980s American punk, to battle the artisanal Armageddons of hyper-development with guitar aggression.