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Pitchfork: Best New Music

Harvey Milk: Life...The Best Game in TownJuly 17

After a left turn, a seven-year break from the studio, and the addition of Joe Preston (Earth, Melvins, High on Fire), Harvey Milk make an unlikely comeback, crafting one of the year's most accomplished metal records. [Best New Music]

Air France: No Way Down EPJune 26

Air France's No Way Down-- currently available either digitally or as a Swedish import-- conjures an idyllic world similar to the one on the Avalanches' dazzlingly great Since I Left You, another record that finds wide-eyed delight in sincerity and beauty.

Lil Wayne: Tha Carter IIIJune 12

Nine years after his first solo LP, and on the heels of an unprecedented glut of increasingly remarkable mixtape and internet leaks, Lil Wayne produces Tha Carter III, the epic culmination of a lifetime of eccentricities. This is Wayne's moment and he embraces it on his own terms.

Crystal Antlers: EPJune 11

Crystal Antlers look like outcasts from six different bands, and at various points on this record, they sound like it, too. Merging lo-fi, psych, garage, and everything in between, their debut EP is an unorthodox summer record-- not so much for driving to the beach as actually being in its sweltering grasp, equal parts scorched earth and wide open spaces.

Fleet Foxes: Fleet FoxesJune 6

Following their spectacular Sun Giant EP, Seattle-based Fleet Foxes' full-length debut has a lot to live up to. Luckily, it more than delivers the goods: Incorporating a broad spectrum of styles-- from Appalachian folk and AM country to classic rock and SoCal pop-- Fleet Foxes create a personal synthesis of the music of their peers, their parents, and even their grandparents.