As summer winds down the volume of new albums coming out is hard to keep up with. This week hosts Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot dig out from music mountain by reviewing new albums from X, Post Malone, Beabadoobee, Sturgill Simpson, JPEGMAFIA and Meshell Ndegeocello.
X, "Big Black X," Smoke & Fiction, Fat Possum, 2024
X, "Winding Up the Time," Smoke & Fiction, Fat Possum, 2024
X, "Sweet Til The Bitter End," Smoke & Fiction, Fat Possum, 2024
Sturgill Simpson, "Swamp of Sadness," Passage du Desir, High Top Mountain, 2024
Sturgill Simpson, "Scooter Blues," Passage du Desir, High Top Mountain, 2024
Sturgill Simpson, "Mint Tea," Passage du Desir, High Top Mountain, 2024
Beabadoobee, "Take A Bite," This Is How Tomorrow Moves, Dirty Hit, 2024
Beabadoobee, "Post," This Is How Tomorrow Moves, Dirty Hit, 2024
Beabadoobee, "Beaches," This Is How Tomorrow Moves, Dirty Hit, 2024
Meshell Ndegeocello, "Travel," No More Water: The Gospel of James Baldwin, Blue Note, 2024
Meshell Ndegeocello, "Trouble," No More Water: The Gospel of James Baldwin, Blue Note, 2024
Meshell Ndegeocello, "Raise The Roof," No More Water: The Gospel of James Baldwin, Blue Note, 2024
Joni Mitchell, "All I Want," Blue, Reprise, 1971
Taylor Swift, "Death By A Thousand Cuts," Lover, Republic, 2019
Lou Reed, "There Is No Time," New York, Sire, 1989
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