The Grateful Dead’s fourth studio affair forever changed the band’s trajectory, bringing the warmth and community of their culture into the music itself.
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The band’s fourth studio affair is a perfect summer album because it is so open; there is not a single wasted note. The resulting album is a light, mellow, breezy, mythical Californian sound.
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The Who were one of the most compositionally inventive bands of their era but their first live album is all about performance, not composition.
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The band’s sixth studio affair leans on the mainstream rock playbook in a way that builds new sounds and brings the group somewhere they had not been before.
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The band’s second studio affair is the rare work that rewards repeated listens not because of its cerebral power and intricacy, but because of its emotional depth.
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Katie Crutchfield’s fifth studio affair finds hope in the darkest moments, and its power comes from how seriously, richly, and unironically it embraces that pursuit.
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Most tracks on the band’s fifth studio album luxuriate in the fuzzy border between punk and mainstream, creating some of the most dynamic work in the band’s now-sprawling repertoire.
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CSNY’s ‘Déjà Vu’ offers a more unified vision of the collective than the songwriting, or the individual band members, could ever conjure up on their own.
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With creative autonomy and quite a lot of red wine, the album is somehow both reckless and meticulous, the result of a dedicated songwriter released from the musical machine.
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Bright Eyes’ sixth studio affair is the rare album that authentically combines anger and joy into one foggy, intoxicating catharsis.
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