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Every week, we tell you about an album we think you need to spend time with. This week’s album is The House Is Burning, the long-awaited record from Isaiah Rashad.

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Thanks to PornHub, XVideos, Nabokov and countless pop culture moments, no one really calls their dad “daddy” anymore. It seems kind of pervy. It’s the kind of thing one might say to a partner in bed while their wrists are tied to a post, not something you’d write on a Father’s Day card. When Annie Clark, otherwise known as St. Vincent, unveiled her latest record, Daddy’s Home, it was only natural to assume she was talking about daddies in the kinky context. Her 2017 record, Masseduction, was full of sly and sexy reimaginations of ordinary things and people. There were plenty of nurses in latex mini dresses, nuns smoking Marlboro Reds, and teachers using rulers not for their intended purpose. Daddy’s Home is different from Masseduction. Like anything Clark’s released in her decade-spanning career, this is a sexy record, and a sardonic one. But it’s also an homage to her actual father, who went to prison for financial crimes. It attempts to be her most personal piece of music yet.

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Every week we tell you about an album we think you need to spend time with. This week’s album is Strand of Oaks’ In Heaven.

Every week we tell you about an album we think you need to spend time with. This week’s album is See You Next Time, the new album from Joshua Ray Walker, one of country’s best young stars.

Every week, we tell you about an album we think you need to spend time with. This week’s album is Valentine, the sophomore record from Snail Mail.

Every week, we tell you about an album we think you need to spend time with. This week’s album is The Ballad Of Dood & Juanita, the new album from Sturgill Simpson.

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Every week, we tell you about an album we think you need to spend time with. This week’s album is A Few Stars Apart, the new album from Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real.

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Every week, we tell you about an album we think you need to spend time with. This week’s album is Japanese Breakfast's Jubilee.

Every week, we tell you about an album we think you need to spend time with. This week’s album is Be Right Back, the new EP from Jorja Smith.

Every week, we tell you about an album we think you need to spend time with. This week’s album is Reunion, the new EP from Anjimile.

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Every week we tell you about an album we think you need to spend time with. This week’s album is Yebba’s debut, Dawn.

Every week we tell you about an album we think you need to spend time with. This week’s album is Kacey Musgraves' fifth release, star-crossed.

Every week we tell you about an album we think you need to spend time with. This week’s album is Baby Queen’s debut mixtape, The Yearbook.

Every week we tell you about an album we think you need to spend time with. This week’s album is Big Red Machine’s sophomore release, How Long Do You Think It’s Gonna Last?

Every week we tell you about an album we think you need to spend time with. This week’s album is Pressure Machine, the seventh album from The Killers.

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Every week, we tell you about an album we think you need to spend time with. This week’s album is Billie Eilish's Happier Than Ever.

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Every week, we tell you about an album we think you need to spend time with. This week’s album is Vince Staples’ self-titled fifth album.

Every week we tell you about an album we think you need to spend time with. This week’s album is lately I feel EVERYTHING, the new album from WILLOW.

Every week, we tell you about an album we think you need to spend time with. This week’s album is DARKSIDE's Spiral.

Every week, we tell you about an album we think you need to spend time with. This week’s album is Gorgon City’s Olympia.

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Every week, we tell you about an album we think you need to spend time with. This week’s album is Mood Valiant, the third record from Australian band Hiatus Kaiyote.

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Every week, we tell you about an album we think you need to spend time with. This week’s album is When Smoke Rises, the long-gestating debut from singer-songwriter Mustafa.

Every week, we tell you about an album we think you need to spend time with. This week’s album is Matthew Dear’s Preacher’s Sigh & Potion: Lost Album.

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Every week, we tell you about an album we think you need to spend time with. This week’s album is the sophomore release from The Internet’s Patrick Paige II, If I Fail Are We Still Cool?

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Every week we tell you about an album we think you need to spend time with. This week’s album is the new collaborative record from Sufjan Stevens and Angelo De Augustine, A Beginner’s Mind.

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Every week, we tell you about an album we think you need to spend time with. This week’s album is CRAWLER, the fourth full-length album from British punk rockers, IDLES.

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Every week, we tell you about an album we think you need to spend time with. This week’s album is Far In, the latest record from Helado Negro.

Every week, we tell you about an album we think you need to spend time with. This week’s album is Public Storage, the debut full-length from Hana Vu.

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Every week, we tell you about an album we think you need to spend time with. This week’s album is Raise the Roof, the second collaborative record — 14 years after the first — from Robert Plant and Alison Krauss.