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NPR's favorite music of April, from broken-hearted R&B to paranoid post-punk

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NPR's favorite music of April, from broken-hearted R&B to paranoid post-punk

April brought us albums from a re-energized Pusha T, reggae legend Horace Andy, Myra Melford's improvised suite, Syd's broken-hearted R&B ballads and Straw Man Army's paranoid-but-expansive post-punk.

NPR's favorite music of April, from broken-hearted R&B to paranoid post-punk

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Nate Chinen's Favorite Albums Of 2018

Mary Halvorson's volatile and cagey album Code Girl is her first set full of songs with lyrics, both a departure from and extension of her earlier work and one of Nate Chinen's favorite albums of 2018. Ross Mantle for NPR hide caption

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