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ek slash special offer. I'm Brian Hyatt this is Rolling Stone music now the

year is more than halfway over so so today we're going to take a look at some

of the best albums of 2023 so far. To get a comprehensive list, check out our website, which

has a really massive selection of albums as well as an entire

separate list of the best songs of the year so far. We're focusing mostly but not

exclusively on stuff you may not have heard already this year. Bringing you selections

from Rolling Stones Monkapur-Kante and from another one of the

list main contributors, Mora Johnston, who's a writer and editor based in Boston and teaches at Boston College.

First up, I have Monkapur with me and we're going to start by talking about the new album from

Janelle Manet, who Monkopur wrote a great cover story about, that you should definitely check

out.

But Janel Manet's new album is called The Age of Pleasure.

It's a very different album for her in some ways.

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