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Album of the Year: Patterns in Repeat – Laura Marling
A tender exploration of motherhood, memory, and the cycles of life, woven with quiet intimacy and lyrical depth -
Listen to this! Beneath The Neon Glow – Elles Bailey
Bailey's transcendent new album is packed with feeling -
Listen to this! Across the River of Stars – Beachwood Sparks
Beachwood Sparks hit the cosmic canyon touchpoints and beyond on their short but sweet return to recording -
Listen to this! Keep Me On Your Mind/See You Free – Bonny Light Horseman
A life-improving, morale-restoring, expansive third album from this modern folk trio -
Listen to this!: POPtical Illusion – John Cale
The sound of an Eightysomething legend on a hot streak -
Listen to this!: Lives Outgrown – Beth Gibbons
The pensive voice of trip-hop confronts maturity and mortality in an album of melancholy yearning and shattered hopes -
Listen to this! This Could Be Texas – English Teacher
A crafty and ambitious debut album that demands respect -
Album of the year: Javelin – Sufjan Stevens
The Detroit indie hero returns to singer/songwriter mode for magnificent, riveting and gorgeous songs of sacrifice -
Listen to this! Black Bayou – Robert Finley
Late-blooming Southern troubadour’s bawdy, swamp-infused fourth album is his best -
Listen to this! the record – boygenius
A gorgeously melancholic rumination on identity, self-discovery, love and loss in the iPhone era -
Listen to this! The Great White Sea Eagle – James Yorkston, Nina Persson and the Second Hand Orchestra
A special collaboration of tender, gentle moments that results in an enchanting and meditative listen -
Listen to this! The Last Rotation of Earth – BC Camplight
A voice in immaculate form. This album's a corker -
Listen to this! Everything Harmony – The Lemon Twigs
The D'Addario brothers return with a gem
