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New Reviews for February 21, 2025
ATO
The Drive-By Truckers' frontman looks back to his youth in a powerfully reflective and artful song cycle.
- Mark Deming
RCA
Neo Joshua stretches out with more pop-flavored material -- and a stunning country ballad -- on her sunny fourth album.
- Andy Kellman
Fat Possum Records
A highly personal fifth album, inspired by and incorporating childhood home movies, and returning the project to a lush yet varied palette.
- Marcy Donelson
Kranky
A brief album of previously unreleased pieces written for film and television soundtracks.
- Paul Simpson
Baths
The producer and singer/songwriter's fourth album brings desire, longing, and need into sharp focus with organic sounds and instinctive songwriting.
- Heather Phares
Incienso
Stirring ambient techno from the unpredictable Bay Area producer, his first LP for the label co-founded by Anthony Naples.
- Andy Kellman
Western Vinyl Records
Chris A. Cummings (Mantler, Marker Starling) and friends invoke orchestral mid-century melodrama for an album steeped in disappointment and yearning.
- Marcy Donelson
Thrill Jockey
A return to instrumental drone-based compositions, and some of the most comforting music in the project's discography.
- Paul Simpson
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AllMusic Staff Pick - February 23, 2025
1988
Beat Happening's second album arrived three years after their exceptionally lo-fi debut, with clearer production offering a more defined picture of just how minimal their vision of pop was. This album flies by at a snappy 23 minutes, but it's here where the band's gentle genius and Cramps-taught swagger both become apparent. Jamboree's bold vulnerability opened countless doors for indie rock on the whole, and it's one of the band's most enjoyable front-to-back listens.
- Fred Thomas