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(Merge)   www.mergerecords.com   Hold Time - record and concept - certainly suits an old soul like M. Ward. A more solid and nuanced effort than 2006's Post-War, Ward's sixth full-l more...

(Stones Throw)   www.stonesthrow.com   The title of M.E.D.'s new album may be a bit presumptuous, especially for a rapper who  seems to be constantly overshadowed by his friends more...

(Mute)   www.mute.com   It's hard to know where to begin when trying to describe the 22-song cinematic electro-opus that is French prodigy M83's new double-disc set. It's not so much more...

(Concord)   www.concordmusicgroup.com   For some reason Macy Gray is an extremely polarizing force in popular music; you either love her or dismiss her. Those who dig her find that more...

(Rounder)   www.rounder.com     Madeleine Peyroux has a voice that's special. Quietly sultry and smoky, nonchalantly conversational yet also soothingly melodic and jazzily styl more...

(Small Horse)     www.madidiaz.com/       It is so easy to understand a certain snobbery - musical and otherwise -- that would develop in someone who had attended b more...

(Madlib Medicine Show/Stones Throw)     www.stonesthrow.com   Madlib has never been one to shy away from a challenge. On his previous Beat Konducta voyages, the hip-hop produc more...

(Yep Roc)   www.yeproc.com   It's been nearly 10 years since they've hit us with an album of original material (although there's clearly something to be said for The Dangerman Sessio more...

(Virgin/Caroline World Service)   www.carolinerecords.com     It's strange to hear Howard Devoto censor one of his signature lyrics. The BBC wouldn't allow "I will drug you a more...

(Angel Air)     www.angelair.co.uk     If ever there was an artist that unduly escaped wider recognition, it would have to be Scotland's Maggie Bell.  A blues beltin more...