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Today's new releases include genre-bending R&B from Baby Rose and Kelela, plus the latest from Panda Bear and Sonic Boom.

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Hathaway's gospel-infused arrangement and call-and-response with a crowd at the Troubadour transformed Carole King's song from a private promise into a proclamation of Black resilience.