I Am Not There Anymore The Clientele (Merge Records, 2023) Odds are you remember the complex feelings of being riveted, exhilarated, and challenged when you...
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The Age of Pleasure Janelle Monáe (Atlantic, 2023) With the ease of having absolutely nothing to prove, Janelle Monáe departs from the complex allegorical...
3D Country Geese (Partisan Records, 2023) If you don’t listen too carefully, 3D Country—the sophomore record from Brooklyn-based indie rock band Geese—might be...
Growing up in West Texas, I was accustomed to conservative Christianity from a very young age. Not necessarily a doctrinal conservatism; most Christians I knew...
Lover’s Game The War and Treaty (UMG Recordings, 2023) There’s something about a wife and husband singer/songwriter duo crooning about life together that is...
Seventeen young men and two little girls in Teotitlán del Valle, a small Zapotec pueblo in the Mexican state of Oaxaca, have made what’s called a promesa (a...
Signs of Life Neil Gaiman & the FourPlay String Quartet (Instrumental Recordings, 2023) Beloved author, graphic novelist, and screenwriter Neil Gaiman adds...
Memento Mori Depeche Mode (Columbia, 2023) It’s hard to believe that the English band Depeche Mode has been together for 43 years. A Gen X adolescence not...
Workin’ on a World Iris DeMent (Flariella, 2023) Iris DeMent once expressed that writing a song can be a form of prayer. But, as her critically acclaimed...
SOS SZA (Top Dawg Entertainment/RCA, 2023) SOS, SZA’s 23-track, Billboard-charting sophomore album, begins with the beeping of a morse code distress signal...
