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The Raconteurs  Help Us Stranger

It’s the purest, most fun music either White or Benson have put out in over a decade Sputnik Music (staff)

Baroness  Gold & Grey

An album of sadness, pain and residual wrath but, above all, acceptance and beauty Spectrum Culture

The Waterboys  Where The Action Is

This is one of the finer works in Scott's lengthy canon, a triumph of atmospheric, poetic, purposely kaleidoscopic songcraft from an often-overlooked master Under The Radar

Pixx  Small Mercies

Despite the mostly upbeat nature of Pixx's Small Mercies, there's a dread surrounding its world PopMatters

The Raconteurs  Help Us Stranger

After an 11-year hiatus, the first album from Jack White’s other other band floats in weightless, haughty bliss through a perpetual 2008 Pitchfork

The Raconteurs  Help Us Stranger

A fun romp through the most succinct Jack White material in a decade, a collection of songs that will thrill crowds across the world until White moves on to whatever his next project is Paste Magazine

Willie Nelson  Ride Me Back Home

Nelson and his stable of writers take stock with such warmth and insight that the lightness hides the emotional weight it carries Spectrum Culture

Black Midi  Schlagenheim

An impressive, protean, raucous debut Spectrum Culture

Faye Webster  Atlanta Millionaires Club

Call it country songs to study too Spectrum Culture

Willie Nelson  Ride Me Back Home

Our favorite country outlaw shows us not only how to grow old gracefully but live it to the fullest Under The Radar

Black Midi  Schlagenheim

Hyped UK band takes bracing noise in fascinating new directions Rolling Stone

Black Midi  Schlagenheim

Like their namesake, Black Midi are a restless, unstoppable force that push their members and listeners to their limits in Schlagenheim PopMatters

Hatchie  Keepsake

Hatchie's Keepsake contains nihilism and optimism at once PopMatters

Black Midi  Schlagenheim

The London guitar band’s debut is twitchy, hair-raising, always on the move. They harken back to a more esoteric era of indie with a magnetic and dazzling style Pitchfork

Baroness  Gold & Grey

Post-rock, space rock, prog rock, psychedelic rock, grungy Alice in Chains-eyeing hard rock—it’s all here, and since it’s Baroness, it works Pitchfork