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Miles ’56: The Prestige Recordings
Miles Davis
Best New Reissue
A new box set, assembled for Davis’ centennial, collects a casually superlative set of recordings from the icon and his all-star quintet that seems to distill jazz’s past and peer into its future.
Terrestrials
Pond
The Australian psych-rock band’s latest features dense, detailed songwriting about corporate greed and the environment, but the music lacks its nuance and ambition.
Coin-O-Matic
Deer Tick
The band pays tribute to its Providence, Rhode Island hometown with a self-produced record that marries nostalgic Americana and sincere reflections on age and regret.
Slippers 08
Slippers
The Los Angeles singer-songwriter’s latest is a crisp and candid twee pop record with unexpected studio touches and gut punches.
Four Days in June
Joseph Shabason / Nicholas Krgovich
The Toronto jazz-pop musicians embrace the soft-focus twang of ’90s country on an album that summons the spirit of a backyard campfire.
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Tranquilizer
Oneohtrix Point NeverBest New AlbumDrawing on a cache of commercial sample CDs, Daniel Lopatin assembles an impossibly dense and transportive electronic album that takes impermanence as its inspiration.
West End Girl
Lily AllenWith an album that doubles as an insider’s account of a tabloid divorce, the singer finds a new evolution of her signature style: Lightness isn’t a foil for irony, but a vehicle for hurt.
Repulsor
ShlohmoThe L.A. beatmaker turns aggressive on his fourth album—dialing up the distortion, flooding his beats with overdriven synths, and pushing anxious moods into the red.
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Filles de Kilimanjaro
Miles DavisEach Sunday, Pitchfork takes an in-depth look at a significant album from the past, and any record not in our archives is eligible. Today, we look back at the first real glimpse of electric Miles and the swan song of his brilliant Second Great Quintet.%2520album%2520art.jpg)
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Fanny Hill
FannyEach Sunday, Pitchfork takes an in-depth look at a significant album from the past, and any record not in our archives is eligible. Today, we look back at the 1972 album from Fanny, a real rock spectacle laced with tenderness, sisterhood, and impeccable riffs that just never got its due.
Book of Love
Book of LoveEach Sunday, Pitchfork takes an in-depth look at a significant album from the past, and any record not in our archives is eligible. Today, we look back at the beguiling debut album from a quartet of art-school students who brought a slyly subversive touch to club-friendly new wave.
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