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First Listen: Juana Molina, 'Halo'

On the Argentine singer's new album, she's reached a zen place where the very texture of a tone becomes its own language.
Juana Molina's new album, <em>Halo</em>, comes out May 5.

How long has it been since you heard something that was unmistakably the blues, and at the same time undeniably new?

The blues is eternal. Though it undergoes modernization every now and then – see the work of Gary Clark Jr., or The Rolling Stones as recently as last year on the torrid – the genre's basic structural outlines and

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