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Julien Baker & Torres  Send A Prayer My Way

If there is one country album you listen to this year it needs to be Send A Prayer My Way. Julien Baker and TORRES are at the top of their game here Spill Magazine

Julien Baker & Torres  Send A Prayer My Way

The album is pleasant in every way you could want it to be, but it’s also a few truck stops short of their best and most memorable work Beats Per Minute

Tunde Adebimpe  Thee Black Boltz

Music, love, and the desire to create have the power to stun these wild distractions, and these abstractions can often provide comfort, self-knowledge, and clarity Northern Transmissions

Beirut  A Study Of Losses

Beirut’s lengthy, meandering album involves a conceptual project by a Swedish circus, a German novel and an inventory of vanished things Spectrum Culture

Mumford & Sons  Rushmere

RUSHMERE is enough to get fans in seats and have them eager to hear what’s next. For anyone else, Mumford & Sons’ fifth album is an easy skip Spectrum Culture

Tunde Adebimpe  Thee Black Boltz

The TV On The Radio frontman’s highly accomplished, elegantly performed, wonderfully sung debut solo album is the work of a master craftsman musicOMH

Julien Baker & Torres  Send A Prayer My Way

The Boygenius star and singer-songwriter Torres find the perfect vehicle for their pained and defiant storytelling The Observer

Tunde Adebimpe  Thee Black Boltz

The TV on the Radio frontman’s sharp pop instincts kick in on a multifaceted synth-punk-funk set born out of deep personal loss The Observer

Tunde Adebimpe  Thee Black Boltz

Given Adebimpe's legacy with TV on the Radio and his lengthy break from music, expectations for his debut album were high, but Thee Black Boltz' passionate, imaginative songs more than meet them All Music

Julien Baker & Torres  Send A Prayer My Way

As they reclaim the sounds of their roots on Send a Prayer My Way, Baker and Torres bring out the best in each others' music All Music

Beirut  A Study Of Losses

A Study Of Losses is ultimately a pleasant (if sometimes monotonous) release. Print edition only Record Collector

Beirut  A Study Of Losses

A further example of his fluency in the ancient, internationally shared languages of wonder and imagining. Print edition only Uncut

Beirut  A Study Of Losses

What might be his [Zac Condon's] most beautiful record to date, particularly the instrumental numbers. Print edition only Mojo

Beirut  A Study Of Losses

For Zach Condon to write music for a troupe of acrobats might seem a little too on the nose, given his roots. But the results are the most effortless and surprising Beirut album in ages Pitchfork

Beirut  A Study Of Losses

As a whole, only one of the 18 tracks here crosses the four-minute mark, so A Study of Losses' hour-long playing time seems to go by quickly, and its unceasing sweetness and longing linger after Condon is "Left to be/A sea of tranquility" ("Mare Tranquillitatis") to close a lovely theater project All Music