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The band’s second studio album made us question everything before it, everything during it and everything after it.
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Tribe’s brilliant sophomore album still sounds like a timeless experience and remains the pinnacle of their recording career.
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With ‘Screamadelica,’ Primal Scream finally and deservedly earned the critical accolades and commercial validation that had eluded them earlier in their career.
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During this crucial juncture in her career, Jackson took stock of her legacy and peered back to where she first centered her creative voice: her breakthrough 1986 album ‘Control.’
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Fifteen perfect songs in one lifetime few bands accomplish. Fifteen perfect songs, intricately connected in the Nine Circles of Hell they illuminate, Tool accomplished with their second album in 1996.
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The group’s debut LP may not be the best-known or most acclaimed album of hip-hop’s golden era, but its relevance and impact endure three decades later.
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Greg Nice & Smooth B’s classic sophomore album reflects their multiple talents and represents a triumph of the whole being greater than the sum of the parts.
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So much more than their massive hit “Lovefool,” The Cardigans’ terrific third LP reflected the band’s evolving confidence and musical maturation at the time.
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