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James Blake makes you want to cry and dance all at once.

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Sharing your musical taste really is autobiographical, and if anything, giving a guy you like a carefully curated mixtape shows how music can bring us together.

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No, not “Applause” or “Roar.”

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The drop is out of this world.

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Some you know, others you’ve maybe never heard of. Here, in no particular order, are 12 of the best albums you might have missed this year.