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BRIMFUL OF FUN The first new album in

eight years from Tjinder Singh’s alt-pop

crew is as great as their Nineties high

points, a hazy, globalist British rock that’s

loose and optimistically eclectic.

4

Cornershop

England Is

a Garden

Ample Play

SWEET TRIP After the festival-ready R&B

house of 2014’s Our Love, Dan Snaith

packs a triple-LP’s worth of twisted disco,

sample-drunk collage, and psychedelic

warmth into a 45-minute thrill ride.

4

Caribou

Suddenly

Merge

DANCE THERAPY Disco self-care from

Toronto art popper Meghan Remy, with

stomping dance tracks and lush ballads,

interspersed with interviews in which peo-

ple give advice to their teenage selves.

CLASSIC COUNTRY One of Nashville’s

sharpest storytellers leans on her singer-

songwriter side, exorcising a breakup over

Sixties-style countrypolitan strings and

dueting with Randy Newman.

BACK IN BLACK Facing poor health, Ozzy

explores real-life terror, with help from

members of the Red Hot Chili Peppers and

Guns N’ Roses, plus Post Malone’s produc-

er. The results are surprisingly moving.

FOLKED UP The former Pavement leader’s

last solo set was quasi-electronic. This is a

mostly acoustic folk set, indebted to faves

like Fairport Convention and Bert Jansch,

and full of fireside beauty.

SAD SOUL Rateliff found success singing

big retro-soul tunes; his new solo album

is much more somber, influenced by the

death of musician friend Richard Swift,

and at times recalling Leonard Cohen.

BACK FOR MOORE Her first album in more

than 10 years settles on muscular, tasteful

adult pop that’s often autobiographical, in-

cluding “Fifteen,” a cleareyed look back at

her late-Nineties days as a teen pop star.

BETH COASTS Bethany Cosentino affirms

her new life since becoming sober, and

you can hear how much the change

means. But she’s traded her band’s catchy

guitar buzz for bland 1980s-rock retreads.

# # # 3 3 @

SOPHIE SOARS Indie-rock prodigy Sophie

Allison delves into darkness and vulnera-

bility while maintaining the same dreamy,

melodic drive that made her 2018 debut,

Clean, so memorable.

4

Soccer Mommy

Color Theory

Loma Vista

U.S. Girls

Heavy Light

4AD

Brandy Clark

Your Life Is

a Record

Warner

Ozzy Osbourne

Ordinary Man

Epic

Stephen Malkmus

Traditional

Techniques

Matador

Nathaniel Rateliff

And It’s Still

Alright

Stax

Mandy Moore

Silver Landings

Verve Forecast

Best Coast

Always Tomorrow

Concord

CONTRIBUTORS: JONATHAN BERNSTEIN, JON DOLAN, KORY GROW, ANGIE MARTOCCIO, CLAIRE SHAFFER, SIMON VOZICK-LEVINSON

Ten new albums you need to know about now

UPDATE

A

DD THESE TWO LPs

to a growing list of

albums by singer-song-

writers (including Sharon Van

Etten and Kacey Musgraves)

who’ve modernized their

sounds without sacrificing

craft. Margaret Glaspy’s latest

hits as hard as her rugged,

guitar-driven 2016 debut,

Emotions and Math — not in

spite of her music’s stark-

ly sleek new textures, but

NEW-LOOK

SYNTH-POP

Singer-songwriters

deepen their music

by embracing

sleeker sounds

Caroline

Rose

Superstar

#

Margaret

Glaspy

Devotion

4

because of them (see the

plaintive, vocoder-steeped

ballad “Killing What Keeps Us

Alive”). Caroline Rose used to

make alt-country. Her fourth

LP doubles down on Eighties

glitz. Rose’s ace narrative

writing occasionally takes

a back seat to her neon

keyboards and dance beats,

but when she stumbles upon

a fine groove (the Prince-in-

spired “Feel the Way I Want”),

it’s irresistible. “I feel as

though I need a change,” she

sings. The one she went with

works fine. JONATHAN BERNSTEIN

Ozzy