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Billie Eilish and the muted cover for her third LP, Hit Me Hard and Soft
New album: The American superstar and her brother co-writer and co-producer Finneas O'Connell’s third LP, of predominantly soft, muted, low key and tenderly whispered, sighing and delicately style with understated release without advance singles
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Tierra Whack: different ways of seeing
New album: After many singles and 2018’s Whack World EP of 15 one-minute numbers, the Philadelphia rapper’s debut LP is an oddball, collection of eccentric vocals, an inventive, colourful, lucky dip of hip hop, soul and R&B
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Kendrick Lamar’s double album Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers
New album: The Pulitzer Prize-winner’s first album for five years is a double LP magnus opus of mind-bogglingly rapid, candid wordplay, an assortment of jazz, rock, classical and more, with so much to unpack, but further cements his place as hip hop’s leading innovator
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Blue Banister’s is Lana Del Rey’s eighth studio album in 11 years
New album: The American singer-songwriter returns with her eighth LP and second LP of the year with further slow, cinematic piano-based numbers filled with her soaring voice and vivid, heartbreak stories and images
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Kacey Musgraves: veiled truth
New album: The acclaimed Nashville star’s follow-up to 2018’s Golden Hour comes on the back of divorce from fellow musician Ruston Kelly, so it’s a bittersweet but at times beautiful cross between country, rock, pop and R&B
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Billie Eilish
New album: The teen queen of dark, teenage bedroom pop returns with her second LP, astonishingly mature, with supremely low-key, close-mic intimacy, and innovative songs about inevitable concerns - stardom, the difficulty of privacy and relationships and all their associated dangers
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Match the covers to the artists …
This week’s selection includes Lady Gaga throwing in the full pop kitchen sink, an apocalyptic concept from Deerfhoof, a witty debut by The Cool Greenhouse, plus Nicole Atkins, Blake Mills, PINS and more
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Halsey
A mixture of dark and light, hope and hopelessness decorate this week’s huge roundup of releases across many genres, including oddities and eccentricities, passions and playfulness from Emimen to Ivor Cutler, Halsey to Keeley Forsyth
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FKA twigs
The second part of this year’s LP favourites again includes several superb female artists. Also check out the first part published yesterday
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Trash Kit arrive at new Horizons
The latest roundup includes more collaborations via Damon Albarn’s African Express, sharp postpunk from Trash Kit, sensitive songwriting from Jesca Hoop, a classical masterpiece, and more from veteran country singer Willie Nelson
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Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry, from the video for Let It Rain
A mixture of old-timers and young bucks make up this week’s selection, from the youthful Amsterdam indie band debutants Pip Blom to the dub legend Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry releasing one of his finest and most eccentric records yet
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Twisted sister: Billie Eilish gets on up with a highly original debut LP
This week’s selection spans the full range from the quirky pop of Billie Eilish to the triumphant return of Edwyn Collins, masterful prog from White Denim to Beth Gibbons doing Henryk Górecki with a Polish orchestra
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