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Marisa Anderson's beautiful new album The Anthology of UnAmerican Folk Music responds to Harry Smith by exploring non-American folk traditions with humility.
Marisa Anderson releases The Anthology of UnAmerican Folk Music via Thrill Jockey, drawing from Uzbek, Yemeni, Afghan, Armenian and Vietnamese traditions to ask what gets excluded when a country tells itself stories about roots.
Mabe Fratti and Bill Orcutt release Almost Waking via Unheard of Hope, a cello-and-guitar collaboration that is intimate, thorny and alive, like hearing a private conversation through a wall and realizing it is actually a storm.
Necropalace scales Worm's sound into atmospheric, riff-driven metal with genuine cinematic scope.