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There’s A World
15 tracks of the month’s best new music
1 FRAN Palm Trees
We begin this month with a slowburning triumph from Chicago’s Maria Jacobson and her band. Taken from their second album, Leaving, it’s an existential, atmospheric waltz that finds the songwriter lamenting, “How can I give it away?/ Wanting it to last another day…”
2 THE BAD ENDS Thanksgiving 1915
If getting REM’s Bill Berry back behind the kit wasn’t impressive enough, the debut album by Mike Mantione’s Bad Ends is excellent in its own right. Here’s a sprightly piece of chiming, heartland garage rock, a highlight of The Power And The Glory, reminiscent of the Truckers, The Replacements and – of course – their drummer’s old band.
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