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Just by looking at the cover of Deerhunter’s “Halcyon Digest,” listeners can tell that they will be taken on a weird and wonderful journey. Thirty seconds into the album, they’ll know that they’re right.

Imagine a world in which contemporary R&B/Soul music wasn’t funneled through an Auto-Tune machine while chanting the same contrived messages of causing alcohol-induced mayhem in a godforsaken club.

Expressions of existential woe usually leave a listener frustrated as poorly executed hooks share melancholy in a way that is both methodical and messy.

While most students spend the summer on vacation without easy access to new tunes, there are those who spend the whole summer hiding in their apartments finding new music. From new Arcade Fire to LCD Soundsystem, this playlist will sink you back into summer mode. “Boyfriend” by Best Coast Within the past few years, there has been a flock of …

Start with a guitar. Add a violin, saxophone, drums and bass. Then, a left of center voice, tons of passion and original lyrics. Sprinkle in diversified textures in sound. What do you get?

Bob Dylan has been through numerous musical phases over the years: protest singer and icon, electric folk pioneer, country singer, hopeless romantic, and gospel singer. Yet few could have guessed Dylan would release a Christmas album.

Imagine you have just accidentally written the best essay of your college career. Your current professor and peers will adore it, your older teachers will find reasons to fall in love with it, and people you don’t know will pick up on this magnum opus of an essay. Now imagine that your work would be counted among the top 10 essays to be handed in each week...for 84 consecutive weeks.

After a five-year hiatus, R&B group TLC came back on to the scene in 1999 with “FanMail.”