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Julien Baker & Torres  Send A Prayer My Way

The result is as brilliant a record you could hope for from two of the current generation’s finest songwriters The Line Of Best Fit

Julien Baker & Torres  Send A Prayer My Way

Confidently playing to the strengths of its creators, this collaborative work is built on undeniable chemistry musicOMH

Julien Baker & Torres  Send A Prayer My Way

On their first album as a duo, the singers reclaim the honky-tonk music they grew up on Slant Magazine

Bon Iver  SABLE, fABLE

Bon Iver’s fifth studio LP SABLE, fABLE shifts from the stark beauty of the original EP to include uplifting sounds that are as enjoyable as they are personal PopMatters

Momma  Welcome To My Blue Sky

The Brooklyn alt-rock band rides a wave of guitar fuzz through songs about love, longing, and surviving your early 20s. It’s intimate without ever revealing too much Pitchfork

Will Smith  Based On A True Story

The star’s first album in two decades is a pointless apology tour for the dumbest Oscar gaffe in history, treating his Chris Rock slap as a grand teachable moment. It’s as corny as it is calculating Pitchfork

Ok Go  And The Adjacent Possible

Features some of the best songs of OK Go’s discography Spill Magazine

Bon Iver  SABLE, fABLE

Regardless of whether or not you prefer to commiserate with the sadness found on his past records, it’s clear that SABLE, fABLE could have only emerged from a place of hard-earned inner peace Beats Per Minute

Valerie June  Owls, Omens, and Oracles

Her most gently ambitious and dazzlingly diverse album to date. Print edition only Uncut

Valerie June  Owls, Omens, and Oracles

The Tennessee singer-songwriter’s joyful new album pushes back against the bleakness of doomscrolling The Guardian

Valerie June  Owls, Omens, and Oracles

Indoctrinated in this album and June’s voice is the reverent nature of the far reaching truth that flows and weaves through each of us in our shared collective humanity. Find yourself in the space between songs, rest in the melodies and discover the place in your body that is answering her call Clash

Valerie June  Owls, Omens, and Oracles

Although the tempos wane during the album's second half, its quality persists. "My Life Is a Country Song" is a highlight, and the closer, "Love and Let Go," is a gorgeous, slow-burning testament to patience and surrender All Music

Valerie June  Owls, Omens, and Oracles

The Tennessee singer-songwriter’s sixth album is a necessary reminder missing from swaths of contemporary music that happiness is just as potent a tool for beating back the darkness as anger Paste Magazine

Bon Iver  SABLE, fABLE

After foregoing the sad troubadour parable, Justin Vernon’s band is the poppiest they've ever been on their double-disc fifth album full of uncharacteristically clear songwriting and unfounded vocal collaborations Paste Magazine

Bon Iver  SABLE, fABLE

The record’s most profound and memorable experiences arrive at the hands of the tracks that are not afraid of crossing timelines, the ones that are unafraid of integration and understand there is no returning to the past Sputnik Music (staff)