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Stream of the Crop: 10 New Albums for Heavy Rotation 10/1

Nueva música de Bon Iver, Danny Brown, Pixies y Nicolas Jaar. Dale play:

"Financial and social ascension cannot save you from the traumas of being molded in a failed system," wrote Lawrence Burney​ of Danny Brown's Atrocity Exhibition on Friday. "In some cases, these successes can even worsen the blow. So, how are you to deal with it?"

Opening a record with a track called "Downward Spiral," and naming it after a Joy Division track in the first place, made Danny Brown's mindset pretty clear on his latest. Things haven't been easy, and they're not getting better.

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​It'd be great to introduce this week's 10 most important records by tearing up that darkness and pointing towards something joyful. But instead, the last week of September saw a clutch of important, often beautiful, but never superficially serotonin-inducing records.

Listen to them all below.

Danny Brown - Atrocity Exhibition

Bon Iver - 22, A Million

Pixies - Head Carrier

Jenny Hval - Blood Bitch

Nicholas Jaar - Sirens

Banks - The Altar

Regina Spektor - Remember Us to Life

Drive-By Truckers - American Band

Blonde Redhead - Masculin Féminin

Yann Tiersen - EUSA

​Lead photo via Danny Brown on Instagram.

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