The music industry tends to take the opposite approach from the film industry regarding new releases at the end of the year. While film studios usually save their most prestigious releases for the end of the year, record labels go big on deluxe editions and re-releases—things that make good, easy gifts but don’t offer much in terms of music we’ve never heard before. We’ve included a few of those types of records in our guide to the best albums coming out in December, but we mostly wanted to focus on collections of new songs. New releases tend to get overlooked at the end of the calendar year, but there are still plenty of gems to be found if you keep an eye out.
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