A 20th-anniversary reissue honors the years-long process of creating the quirky, masterful record and finds new freedom in its songs, packaging them with demos, live recordings, rarities, and a book.
The animated band’s ninth album gathers collaborators both living and departed for a characteristically audacious monument to grief, India, and archival memory.
The Big Thief guitarist lightly updates his solo sound, but he still fares best as a traditional country-rock troubadour.
As the Bug, the UK producer has made some of the weightiest dub and dancehall ever committed to tape. But this reissued LP of oppressively wintry dark ambient is just as heavy.