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Ben Gibbard & Jimmy Tamborello would continue making music separately, but The Postal Service is arguably the most enduring endeavor of their careers to date.
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‘Pablo Honey’ isn’t a masterpiece, but it’s an enjoyable work that contains the rough clay the band would eventually use to construct ‘The Bends’ (1995) and ‘OK Computer’ (1997).
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Chan Marshall’s sixth studio affair is deeply personal, a meditation on love lost, the wounds of childhood, and the parasitic nature of fame.
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2Pac’s sophomore album contains some of his strongest work from a time before he was living the Thug Life quite so hard.
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It feels like a stroke of luck, decades later, that Bush answered her kick inside, the urge to make art and live a creative life out loud.
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‘In the Aeroplane Over the Sea’ is a concept album in its wholeness, a world created and abandoned in less than an hour.
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‘Duran Duran,’ like much of the contents in the group’s canon, is just one of many musical discoveries able to transform the curious listener into a devout follower.
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Still a lyrical and sonic delight, the spirit and salience of Digable Planets’ debut album endures three decades on.
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Despite the ongoing arguments over the greatest version of ‘Raw Power,’ most can agree that it’s The Stooges’ quintessential studio album.
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