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In the sixty years since its arrival, The Fab Four’s seventh studio album has lost none of its capacity to astonish. It remains a record that sounds simultaneously of its time and ahead of it.
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Streisand’s thirteenth studio affair exhibits a quiet confidence that feels almost radical, revealing new emotional shades long after the final note fades.
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For an album that arrived once, made its statement and never received a follow-up, ‘Bear Witness’ continues to speak with extraordinary clarity.
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Masterminded by The Purple One himself, The Time’s inaugural affair was an outlandish funk score swirling hedonism and braggadocio as yet unseen.
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The Strokes’ quintessence is that they managed to sound uncannily like a band from the past, but in a way that’s also startlingly fresh and modern. That is the heady magic of ‘Is This It.’
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Among the Belgian band's twelve studio albums across their prolific 30-year career, their dazzling debut LP remains their watershed moment to date.
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To their credit, Tribe didn’t try to make a carbon copy of ‘The Low End Theory’ or ‘Midnight Marauders’ with their fourth LP, which sounds different than anything the group had released before.
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