Matt Mitchell

Geese - 3D Country
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All at once theatrical, vicious, heartfelt and daring, Geese’s sophomore album is a brilliant, miraculous assemblage of stone cold rock ‘n’ roll.
Cory Hanson - Western Cum
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The Los Angeles singer/songwriter’s latest solo effort is a merciless, gravitational, witty and absurd benchmark of technicolor rock ‘n’ roll.

Bonny Doon - Let There Be Music
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The Detroit trio and Waxahatchee backing band’s first studio album in five years is a joyous concerto of rock 'n' roll and intrepid togetherness.
Gia Margaret - Romantic Piano
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The singer/songwriter's third LP is her best and brightest endeavor yet.
Mac DeMarco - One Wayne G
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It’s unlike anything we’ve heard from DeMarco before, but we might all be better off to never hear such a project from him ever again.
Stella Donnelly - Flood
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After making a record about carrying the weight of all the world’s meanness on her back, she’s now giving space to her own ramshackle heart. Donnelly harnesses a single, palpable truth by Flood’s end: She is her own panacea.

Florist - Florist
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The Brooklyn quartet's self-titled fourth album finds them at their strongest and most hopeful
James Krivchenia - Blood Karaoke
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The Big Thief drummer and producer’s second solo offering is a meticulous, poetic collection of unrecognized internet culture.
Cate Le Bon - Pompeii
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On her sixth LP, the Welsh avant rocker uses time-honored, tragic influences to help her make sense of the urgent, unfurling present.

The Weeknd - Dawn FM
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Billed as the successor to 2019’s acclaimed After Hours, Abel Tesfaye’s fifth studio LP transcends dynamic pop grandeur and flaunts accountability in the face of death.

IDLES - CRAWLER
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CRAWLER is a project about flaws, healing and reclamation. It’s a remarkable, haunted and resonate touchstone for rock and roll, a record unafraid of its own emotions and openness—full of stories worth returning to and untangling a hundred times over.

Lorde - Solar Power
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On her third record, the New Zealand songwriter smokes a lot of dope and throws a middle finger at the lingering side effects of her former teenage stardom.
Tyler, The Creator - CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST
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Call Me If You Get Lost delivers, by way of investigating a part of Tyler we’ve not yet seen on any of his previous projects: transparency.

The Mountain Goats - Dark in Here
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A gloomier companion to 2020’s Getting Into Knives, John Darnielle’s latest is patient, tense, and full of empathy.

The Caretaker - Selected Memories From the Haunted Ballroom
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17 years before making one of the most audacious and groundbreaking ambient projects ever, James Leyland Kirby's debut album as the Caretaker was an innovative introduction to hauntology at the time of its release, even if hindsight has damaged the longevity of its usefulness.
Foo Fighters - Foo Fighters
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Foo Fighters is a debut worth its weight in whatever you’re willing to invest into it. By all means, it is not Grohl at his sharpest, but you can make the argument that it’s him at his most compelling.

Joni Mitchell - Turbulent Indigo
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Even at her most somber, Joni’s music is a gesture of faith that erases barriers between those who decide to listen.

Janet Jackson - Control
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Control is exactly what the title says: It is not just a nurturing of identity, it’s a demand to never lose it ever again.


June Playlist