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Today's Shelf Pull: Braids, Bright Weather for Complicated Heads

Braids' Euphoric Recall is on the shelf today: a 2023 LP for anyone who likes their art rock bright, restless and still able to look you in the eye.

Some records arrive like a tidy thought.

This one arrives more like weather.

Braids' Euphoric Recall is on the shelf today, and it has that useful quality of sounding bright without becoming simple. There is colour everywhere, but it is not decoration. It moves. It flickers. It catches the light, then turns slightly sideways just when you think you have it settled.

That is a good sign.