ADRIANNE LENKER BRIGHT FUTURE - 4AD CD/LP

Recorded straight to tape with a small group of close confidants, the Big Thief singer’s latest solo album is free-flowing and intuitive, reveling in the space between spontaneity and impermanence….

Two songs on Adrianne Lenker’s Bright Future begin with the woosh of a tape machine settling into its correct speed. The players sometimes murmur among themselves as a song gets going or winds down; Lenker’s voice occasionally grows distant, as though she were turning away from the mic, then rises in volume as she leans forward again. At first blush, these audible moments of calibration signal a certain old-school authenticity. The Big Thief singer-songwriter cut her new album straight to tape, just like the last one, and it has the air of an unadulterated document of the music as it was performed in the studio. - PITCHFORK

ANDRE 3000 NEW BLUE SUN - EPIC CD/LP

New Blue Sun largely succeeds as ambient music because it soothes and entices on a tactile level while lending itself to deeper consideration of the history and musicology informing it. It’s engaging when it is allowed to float into a room, occupying space without overpowering it, like spritzes from a time-released air freshener, and also when it’s turned up to parse what’s being played to the extent that this is possible. Throughout the album, the woodwind instrument carrying a song (or stalking its margins, depending on the mood of the flutist) is flanked by drummer and utility player Carlos Niño’s expansive palette of percussive textures; ephemeral guitar and synthesizer accompaniment from Nate Mercereau and Surya Botofasina; breathy vocals from Mia Doi Todd; and other sedate but impactful contributions from musicians in André and Niño’s orbit. New Blue Sun taps a colorful succession of ’70s and ’80s antecedents like Laraaji’s explorations on Casiotone and zither, Stevie Wonder’s songs for plants, and Jon Hassell’s anthropological endeavors. But it still feels at home in the decade where players like Sampha and Nala Sinephro are blending jazz and soul aesthetics and merging electronic and acoustic sounds. - VULTURE

WAXAHATCHEE TIGERS BLOOD - ANTI- CD/LP

But Tigers Blood doesn’t merely represent the natural progression from Saint Cloud or ring in a sober celebration. In fact, it reads as the triumphant culmination of every album Waxahatchee has released up until this point. Country and folk influences like Gillian Welch and Lucinda Williams remain apparent here as they did four years ago, but also apparent are the rock stylings of Cerulean Salt and Out in the Storm. “Bored,” which is the most anthemic Crutchfield tune since “Never Been Wrong,” is dominated by a driving percusion courtesy of Spencer Tweedy and Nick Bockrath’s pedal steel guitar licks. After penning so many self-lacerating songs in the 2010s, there’s something unmistakably satisfying about seeing Crutchfield turn her frustrations outwards here. “I can get along, my spine’s a rotted two-by-four / My benevolence just hits the floor / I get bored,” she declares, somehow sounding both exasperated and above-it-all at the same time. - PASTE

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