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	Aceyalone Leanin' On Slick (Decon)
	Aceyalone has done it again with his upbeat 2013 album, Leanin' On Slick, an inspired follow up to 2009's The Lonely Ones. Once again joined by producer Bionik, this duo sprinkles just the right amount of funk, soul and R&B elements under Aceyalone's unmatched rhymes. Includes guests from Cee Lo, Daniel Merriweather and Treasure Davis.


	ADULT. The Way Things Fall (Ghostly International)
	The Way Things Fall – the band’s first full length since 2007’s Why Bother? – is a record that sounds both focused and coherent, flowing with a conceptual ease. "[The album] flowed efficiently and agreeably for us," says Miller. "We have never worked better together. We believe this is because we exorcised all of our demons through our past records, we have no baggage, we started anew. We left behind the self-conscious adolescents." And indeed, ADULT. have never sounded so self-assured, so poised, and so vital.


	Alex Bleeker and the Freaks How Far Away (Woodsist)
	New Jersey-born ALEX BLEEKER is an old soul. For his sophomore album, How Far Away, he lets that come into play fully. Over eleven tracks, he deals with the autumnal phase of lost love, the point after the grieving subsides and you start figuring out what you're supposed to do next. As with his last album, Bleeker cobbles together a ragtag collection of 'freaks,' including MOUNTAIN MAN's AMELIA MEATH, who provides gorgeously weighty backing vocals on four tracks, WOODS' JARVIS TANVIERE, REAL ESTATE's JACKSON POLLIS, BIG TROUBLES' SAM FRANKLIN, among plenty other like-minded musicians who lend sparkling instrumental flourishes and a full-bodied backbone to Bleeker's pained yowl. Vinyl includes a download.


	Alice In Chains The Devil Put The Dinosaurs Here (Virgin)
	Alice In Chains’ fifth album and their second since their 2005 reunion. The band features original members Jerry Cantrell and Sean Kinney plus bassist Mike Inez and William DuVall, who replaces original vocalist Layne Staley.


	AM & Shawn Lee Numérique (Park The Van)
	La Musique Numérique (French for “Digital Music”) is the second full-length record from Los Angeles/London electro soul, retro-futurists AM & Shawn Lee. LA Weekly, San Francisco Guardian, and the Seattle Weekly have lauded them as one of the "best live bands of the year.”


	Ariel Pink Thrash and Burn (Human Ear)
	An absorbing look at ARIEL ROSENBERG's early musique concrte epic. Thrash and Burn dates from a time when Ariel Rosenberg, then a few years from turning "Pink," first proclaimed himself a "20th Century Composer" without a trace of irony in his voice. Appropriately, this early work takes the form of a musique concrte epic forged from Rosenberg's late-'90s faux-primitif, garage-punk, and tape-loop experiments. At 94 minutes and 36 tracks, Thrash and Burn displays the symphonic ambitions of his genre-devouring pop saga, Haunted Graffiti, but with little in the way of fastidious album-oriented constructions. Rather, Thrash and Burn is a free-form tape ramble that uses gauzy atmospherics to strike up a wicked dialogue with the likes of Rosenberg's non-pop influences, like Iannis Xenakis, Pierre Schaeffer, and Luc Ferrari.


	Arthur, Joseph The Ballad Of Boogie Christ (Lonely Astronaut)
	“The Ballad of Boogie Christ is a psychedelic soul record about redemption and what happens after you find it and lose it. In addition to guest spots from Ben Harper, Joan Wasser and more, the concept album features Arthur relying less on his signature guitar loops and focusing more on soul singers and massive horn arrangements. The result is Arthur’s most ambitious and focused work in over a decade.” – Antiquiet


	Baptist Generals Jackleg Devotional To The Heart (Sub Pop)
	The Denton, TX band, known for its haunting, claustrophobic take on drunken folk, needed ten full years to bare its hearts for this sophomore LP. The band's vibraphones, guitarrons and ambient feedback combine like a mess of ventricles, aortas and veins.


	Basinsky, William Nocturnes (Temporary Residence)
	Like his best and most iconic works, the magic of William Basinskiʼs new album, Nocturnes, is in the glacial, inevitable decay of something beautiful. Tape loops of prepared piano – composed and recorded more than 30 years ago – reflecting, refracting, and disintegrating into a haunting sentimental haze, like losing a vivid memory to the natural deterioration of time. Nocturnes is two sprawling new works, begun in 1979 and completed in 2012. It is Basinskiʼs first new studio release in nearly four years.


	Ben Folds Five Live (Sony Legacy)
	The first live album from piano-pop trio Ben Folds Five, recorded in 2012 on their first tour in more than a decade. Vinyl version due July 9.


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