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(All releases featured here are independently selected by our editors.When you buy something through our affiliate links, however, Pitchfork earns an affiliate commission.)Kelela: New Avatar [Warp]A Kelela album caked in gritty shoegaze guitars isn’t the radical proposition it might first appear to be.
Before she became the avatar, so to speak, for a then-nascent strain of beat-driven R&B, Kelela Mizanekristos sang in an indie rock band called Dizzy Spells and even dated guitarist Tosin Abasi, of the prog-metal outfit Animals as Leaders.New Avatar, her third full LP for Warp, is, by that token, a stunning expansion of her established sound and a return to form.
Kelela squeezes and stretches her new toys for all their expressive and evocative capabilities, from the ML Buch-adjacent futurism of “Linknb” to straight-up D’Angelo worship on “Outta Time,” where she finds a worthy sparring partner in guitar’n’B torchbearer A.K.Paul.Listen on Apple MusicListen on SpotifyListen on TidalListen on Amazon MusicListen/Buy at BandcampBuy at Rough TradeJack White: Frozen Charlotte [Third Man]Jack White has been up to a lot more over the past year than cutting the president down to size and playing with Eminem at a Detroit Lions halftime show.
He’s also been at work on a seventh studio album, Frozen Charlotte, entirely self-produced and structured around a character he calls “Frozen Charlatan.” Working with his longtime band of Patrick Keeler on drums, Dominic Davis on bass, and Bobby Emmett on keys, White gets back to blues-rock basics, letting nas...