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A four-CD-plus-DVD behemoth packaged in a wooden box, Sojourner was recorded in four different locations by Magnolia singer/songwriter Jason Molina with help from a cast including engineer Steve Albini, Cracker's David Lowery, and singer/violinist Andrew Bird.

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By immediately bragging about their superlative mic skills and overall fly-ness on this third album, the ladies of Northern State prepare us for a hip-hop record similar to their first: goofy, Beastie Boys-style bravado with an erudite twist.

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Like a lot of smooth, low-key electro, this London group's second studio album is pleasant but rather uneventful.

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Neil Michael Hagerty made his name beating the shit out of rock'n'roll conventions with Pussy Galore and Royal Trux, but lately, he's been settling into the uncomplicated, clock-punching role of a bar-band frontman. Everything about XI, his latest with the Howling Hex, feels almost shockingly conventional, down to the older-dudes-rockin'-out collage in the CD package.

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Aaron Espinoza has spent years as that other singer/songwriter in Los Angeles' Silver Lake neighborhood, next to his pal and mentor Elliott Smith.  And maybe Smith's shadow overwhelmed Earlimart's last couple of albums, on which too-crafty experimentation sabotaged awesomely lonely songs.

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It speaks volumes that the fourth Liars album is eponymous. Gone are the frantic post-punk throwbacks of their 2001 debut, They Threw Us All in a Trench and Stuck a Monument on Top, and the heavy-handed conceptual experimentation of the following two LPs, which combined electronic noise and allusions to witchcraft.