Rosalía's Orchestral Benediction
Plus: a must-hear album from a virtuosic avant-rock quartet, the fiery return of an essential Chicago rap collective, and more.
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Have you heard Rosalía dropped a very Catholic-coded new album? This week Julianne finally puts her religious upbringing to use in her review of Lux—bless her, father, for she has not stanned. Plus Dylan puts us on to a crucial agitprop rap collective, Andy gets jazzed on a definitive post-rock group’s comeback album, and more.
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