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Romance /Camilla Cabello
Cabello explores romance in all its forms: love, lust, and, in her most adventurous moments, the toxicity that can come from it all. She pushes her voice to new places...Romance includes her smash Mendes collaboration “Señorita". It may be their biggest hit to date, but that cliched lovers’ story feels out of place within an otherwise revelatory album, where she discovers new ways to give her artistry a new edge. --Rolling Stone
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Later years, 1987-2019 /Pink Floyd
A companion compilation to the sprawling 2019 box set The Later Years 1987-2019, this 80-minute collection distills that luxury item into something handy and affordable. In the winnowing process, it's revealed that the box indeed consists primarily of live material: all but five of the 12 tracks are live recordings, most taken from either the remixed version of the 1988 live double-LP Delicate Sound of Thunder or the full-length Live at Knebworth, which was recorded in 1990.--All Music
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Fine line /Harry Styles
while Fine Line is certainly a commercial slam dunk due to Styles’ popularity, the album is far from a safe creative bet. Luckily, Styles has the charisma, curiosity, and raw talent to pull off even his weirder detours. In fact, Fine Line proves that the musician has absorbed the best lesson passed down by California’s great musicians: Don’t be afraid to take chances within a folk- or pop-rock framework, as that’s how you create iconoclastic music that endures.--AV Club
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Fully loaded/Blake Shelton
The two bookend cuts -- "God's Country," which feels like it could've been written by Aaron Lewis, and the swaggering Trace Adkins duet "Hell Right" -- emphasize Shelton's burlier side, but he gets sweeter when he sings the power ballad "Nobody But You" with Gwen Stefani and lays back for the sunny "Jesus Got a Tight Grip," which never seems as religious as its chorus suggests. --AllMusic
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Herstory/Mary J. Blige
Blige’s “Real Love” would serve as something of a blueprint for hip-hop soul—powerful hooks, smoky singing, slang-informed writing, and textured, sample-based beats that could easily be rapped over. “If I stay strong, maybe I’ll find my real love”—this ability to evoke pain, desire, and an iron will would characterize much of the rest of her career, elevating her as an icon of triumph and transformation. HERstory Vol.1 offers the reminder that she had that power as young as 18 or 19.--Pitchfork
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