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Downtown Church, Griffin's seventh album, is the equivalent of a slow walk into a field of wildflowers — a journey in which you look up at a bluebird sky and take a deep breath with your eyes closed. It sounds like the soundtrack to a spiritual awakening, which makes sense, given that it's a gospel album. Hear Downtown Church in its entirety as part of NPR Music's Exclusive First Listen series.
Britt Daniel, Spoon's gifted frontman, crafts brilliantly understated pop gems that have helped make Spoon one of the most reliably gratifying bands of the past 15 years. Transference, the group's latest record is available to stream in its entirety for the week leading up to its official release on January 19, as part of NPR Music's Exclusive First Listen series.
Vampire Weekend's second album, Contra loosely takes California as its muse. But the reason for Vampire Weekend's initial blog hype, and the reason the band broke out far beyond it, was that it made tuneful, concise, sing-along pop songs. Vampire Weekend has made more of those, and then some.
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