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Rough Trade
AllMusic Rating: 4.5 stars
Pulp's first album in 24 years contemplates the difference between aging and maturity with their expected wit and surprising tenderness.
- Heather Phares
Forever Living Originals / Little Simz
Rap
AllMusic Rating: 4.0 stars
The acclaimed U.K. rapper's sixth album explores themes of transformation, growth, and self-empowerment.
- Paul Simpson
Roadrunner Records
AllMusic Rating: 4.5 stars
Weighted by expectations, the Baltimore band rise to the occasion on their surprising and satisfying fourth LP.
- Timothy Monger
Verve
AllMusic Rating: 3.5 stars
One of two simultaneously issued collaborations, this is a single hour-long ambient composition which resembles a space lullaby.
- Paul Simpson
Verve
AllMusic Rating: 3.5 stars
One of two simultaneously issued collaborations, a slightly haunting but mostly familiar and comforting album of dreamy ambient pop songs.
- Paul Simpson
Tapete Records
AllMusic Rating: 4.0 stars
The band up the production values -- adding extra keys and horns -- but lose none of their usual fiery passion in the process.
- Tim Sendra
Matador
AllMusic Rating: 4.0 stars
A relentlessly noisy, driving, hooky, and unpredictable debut album submerged in lo-fi murk and perfectly damaged.
- Marcy Donelson
Don Giovanni
AllMusic Rating: 4.5 stars
A compilation album serves as a curated overview for this invisibly influential '80s pre-grunge band from Boston.
- Fred Thomas

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Fust began life as the solo project of South Carolina songwriter Aaron Dowdy, who combined raw, occasionally painful life experiences in the southern United States with a literary sensibility. With the addition of other musicians, Fust became a band and collaborated with some critical darlings of the 2020s indie scene, earning critical plaudits with albums like 2023’s Genevieve and 2025’s Big Ugly. Dowdy's storytelling bent comes from a…  Read More about Fust

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