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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.)Cameron Winter: Live at Carnegie Hall [Partisan/Pias]In a recent interview with Rolling Stone, Cameron Winter said that of the few people he’s shown his new solo music to, “I don’t think anyone’s really liked it.” I struggle to believe he’s including the few thousand who heard unreleased material echo through Carnegie Hall’s main auditorium last December.
On a new live album from that night—which arrives alongside a Paul Thomas Anderson-directed concert film—Winter cements himself among America’s greatest living songwriters, with tracks from his prodigious debut Heavy Metal stripped down to nothing but Steinway and tessitura.Once the ultimate “you had to be there” flex, Live at Carnegie Hall can now earn the people’s stamp of approval.Listen on Apple MusicListen on SpotifyListen on TidalListen on Amazon MusicListen/Buy at BandcampBuy at Rough TradeMarina Herlop: Dja Dja [self-released]Marina Herlop’s first self-released album propels the Catalan composer, producer, and singer into the uppermost echelons of outré pop.
Dja Dja comprises 14 songs of polyphonic glitz, MIDI fugues, and Balinese gamelan to form an epic suite spanning ancient timbres and hectic sound design, pure pop and a beguiling avant-garde.Released three years after the similarly freewheeling Nekkuja, the album bubbles over with interdimensional ambition and zigzagging ideas, anchored by...