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With ‘Dirty Computer,’ Janelle Monae cleans it (well! almost … so to speak!)

Janelle Monae's 'Dirty Computer' is her third studio album featuring Brian Wilson, Zoe Kravitz and Pharrell Williams as guests and released on April 27, 2018 by Bad Boy / Atlantic...

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‘Eat the Elephant’ by A Perfect Circle took 14 years in the making. So, all you can expect is slowly unfolding grandeur.

A Perfect Circle's 'Eat the Elephant' is their fourth album (their first in fourteen years) featuring vocalist Maynard James Keenan, guitarists Billy Howerdel & James Iha, drummer Jeff Friedl and...

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With ‘Deeper,’ Lisa Stansfield has tailored an album for house parties. ‘Deeper’ does not rhyme with ‘slipper’ or even less ‘sleeper’.

Lisa Stansfield's 'Deeper' is her eighth studio album produced by her husband Ian Devaney & Snowboy and released on April 6, 2018 by earMUSIC

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From Bossa to Reggaeton & Soul, Kali Uchis ‘Isolation’ is like hearing pop music through a kaleidoscope

Kali Uchis' 'Isolation' is her debut album featuring Bootsy Collins, Damon Albarn, Tame Impala, Tyler, The Creator, Thundercat among other contributors and released on April 6, 2018 by Virgin

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Introspection comes with beautiful harmonies on Wye Oak’s album : ‘The Louder I Call, The Faster It Runs.’ ‘…The Deeper It Goes’

Wye Oak's 'The Louder I Call, The Faster It Runs' is duo Jenn Wasner & Andy Stack's sixth album released on April 6, 2018 by Merge

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There is a Randy Newman feel in the new Eels’ Mark ‘E’ Everett’s ‘The Deconstruction’ album that comes after four years of reconstruction. Second thought?

Eels' 'The Deconstruction' is their twelfth studio album (after a four-year hiatus), co-produced by leader Mark Oliver Everett a.k.a. E and Mickey Petralia and released on April 6, 2018 by...

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With ‘Freedom,’ Damon McMahon of Amen Dunes makes existentialism majestuous again.

Amen Dunes' 'Freedom' is his fifth studio album produced by Chris Coady, featuring drummer Parker Kindred, keyboardist Jordi Wheeler & guitarist Delicate Steve and released on March 30, 2018 by...

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Bettye LaVette covers Dylan. ‘Times were a-changin’,’ now ‘Things Have Changed’ So what’s next?

Bettye LaVette' 'Things Have Changed' is her tenth studio album featuring twelve covers of Bob Dylan songs, produced by Steve Jordan, with Keith Richards on one song and released on...

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Ben Harper & Charlie Musselwhite get back together and declare ‘No Mercy In This Land.’ ‘Merci Beaucoup!’

'No Mercy In This Land' by Ben Harper & Charlie Musselwhite is their second collaborative studio album released on March 30, 2018 by Anti Records

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Parlophone publish ‘Gorillaz’ by virtual band Gorillaz, fully written by Damon Albarn (2001)

'Gorillaz' is the virtual band's eponymous debut studio album produced by Tom Girling, Jason Cox & Dan the Automator and released on March 26 , 2001 by Parlophone / Virgin.Track...

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Toni Braxton’s ‘Sex & Cigarettes’ is your smell after cheating. So! stop smoking & unclog her heart. One more album about quitting

Toni Braxton' s 'Sex & Cigarettes' is her eighth studio album (and her first with some explicit words) produced mostly with Paul Boutin and released on March 23, 2018 by...

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Zappaish inventivity, electronic noises & fuzzing guitars, aboard ‘Boarding House Reach’ Jack White travels in all directions. Invitation to incoherence.

Jack White' s 'Boarding House Reach' is his third solo studio album (the first in four years) released on March 23, 2018 by Third Man / Columbia / XL

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‘As tears go bye’ The Weeknd has called his new album ‘My Dear Melancholy.’ ‘Spleentiful’

The Weeknd' s 'My Dear Melancholy' is his fourth (six-songs) album co-produced with Frank Dukes and released on March 30, 2018 by XO / Republic Records

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In ‘Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt,’ Moby puts a large dose of electro-sound effects in his pessimism. Make it dark!

Moby' s 'Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt' is his fifteenth and self-produced studio album released on March 2, 2018 by Little Idiot / Mute.

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Joan Baez says ‘Whistle Down the Wind’ is her last album before retiring

Joan Baez' s 'Whistle Down the Wind' is her twenty fifth studio album featuring ten covers, produced by Joe Henry and released on March 2, 2018 by Proper

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Kim Deal & The Breeders got ‘All Nerve’ back together while you were ‘waiting in the car’

The Breeders' 'All Nerve' is their fifth studio album (their first in 11 years) featuring Courtney Barnett on one song and released on March 2, 2018 by 4AD

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Meshell Ndegeocello redecorates eleven 80s/90s hits and makes them her new comfort zone.

Meshell Ndegeocello' s 'Ventriloquism' is her twelth studio album (her first in four years) featuring eleven covers of 80s and 90s hits, co-produced with Jebin Bruni and released on March...

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Engineer Eddie Kramer picked up bits of stuff recorded by Jimi, glued them together and it (more or less) works. Demoes from beyond!

Jimi Hendrix' s 'Both Sides of the Sky' is this third posthumous (and a double) album engineered by Eddie Kramer and released on March 9, 2018 by Sony Legacy

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Brad Mehldau takes on good old Sebastian and add his own ‘After Bach’ compositions. ‘Touch of Classic’

Brad Mehldau' s 'After Bach' is a live album including four Bach preludes and one fugue, plus seven of Mehldau's compositions and released on March 9, 2018 by Nonesuch

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‘American Utopia’ is David Byrne talking (tongue in cheek) as he heads (towards a bright future). Hello Happy Taxpayers!

David Byrne' s 'American Utopia' is his seventh (his first in 14 years) studio album co-produced with Brian Eno & Rodaidh McDonald and released on March 9, 2018 by Todo...

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