Jason Heller
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The debut from guitarist Anthony Pirog and Fugazi's rhythm section pushes and pulls through a compelling conversation between aggression and meditation.
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Where A Crow Looked At Me dealt with the shattering experience of Phil Elverum losing his wife to cancer, Now Only ponders how, when, and why one might carry on.
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The sprawling, 16-song album is a cornucopia of spirit-lifting, even occasionally reflective party jams.
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Kyle Craft's second album is full of unabashed odes to courtship, confusion and the timeless power of storytelling in song.
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Chandler Klang Smith's novel, set in a crumbling far-future metropolis menaced by dragons, is a dizzying, delirious crash of wonders and grotesqueries, spiked with crackling dialogue and detail.
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The American Southwest continues to inform Calexico's sprawling, cross-cultural indie rock, but here it's a more self-contained, even lonesome affair.
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Ty Segall is a scholar of rock, and Freedom's Goblin might as well be his PhD thesis.
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The London post-punk band fortifies its buoyant, life-affirming jams with one of the most revolutionary forces of all: fun.
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Ursula K. Le Guin's mastery of fiction has remained so consistent, it's easy to overlook her accomplishments in other forms — but her new nonfiction collection goes a long way towards fixing that.
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Arthur Herman's new book zooms in on Vladimir Lenin, Woodrow Wilson, and the vast, conflicting historical forces they embodied — and which came to a head in the fateful year of 1917.