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Metacritic Reports Music Monday: New Albums, Videos, and Music News

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On the Impossible Past - The Menzingers

Metascore: 93
Release Date: Feb 21, 2012

User Score: 7.3
The third full-length release from the punk rock band from Pennsylvania is its first on Epitaph Records.More »
Loveless [Reissue] - My Bloody Valentine

Metascore: 92
Release Date: May 7, 2012
The second album from the Irish rock band is reissued with a unreleased remaster of the album from the original tapes.More »
Reform Club - Claro Intelecto

Metascore: 89
Release Date: Apr 24, 2012
This is the third full-length electronic album for producer Mark Stewart under the name Claro Intelecto.More »
Crown and Treaty - Sweet Billy Pilgrim

Metascore: 88
Release Date: Apr 16, 2012
The third full-length release for the British rock band is its first since adding American Jana Carpenter to the group and winning a Mercury Prize...More »
Accelerando - Vijay Iyer Trio

Metascore: 87
Release Date: Mar 13, 2012
The third album from pianist Vijay Iyer with bassist Stephen Crump and drummer Marcus Gilmore includes several original compositions as well as...More »
Europe - Allo Darlin'

Metascore: 86
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Simon Trought returns to produce the second album for the London-based indie pop band led by Elizabeth Morris. More »
Young Man In America - Anais Mitchell

Metascore: 86
Release Date: Feb 28, 2012

User Score: 7.6
The singer-songwriter scales back from her 20-track 2010 album Hadestown with 11 folk tunes on her fifth album.More »
A Victim of Stars: 1982-2012 - David Sylvian

Metascore: 86
Release Date: Apr 3, 2012
The two-disc compilation of solo work comes from the former lead singer of the new wave group Japan.More »
Vee Vee [Remastered] - Archers of Loaf

Metascore: 86
Release Date: Feb 21, 2012
This is the remastered release of the second album from the North Carolina indie rock band, who reunited in 2011.More »
Mermaid Avenue: The Complete Sessions - Billy Bragg/Wilco

Metascore: 86
Release Date: Apr 21, 2012
Woody Guthrie's daughter Nora contacted Billy Bragg about using some of the songs her father wrote in the 1940s. Bragg in turn, recruited the band...More »