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Bandcamp / Buy The isolation of the last 15 months must have been hard on Carlos Niño. For years, the L.A. percussionist, DJ, and arranger has gathered together a rotating cast of pals to create a series of records under the name Carlos Niño & Friends. The loose, improvisatory structures of their playing, and Niño’s ingenious ability to stitch the best ideas together into blankets of comforting sounds, give these albums a charisma that smooths over the often difficult nature of the music, which borrows in equal measure from free jazz, new age, and hip-hop. In the same way ...

Adrian Spinelli May 6, 2021 Angel Olsen has released a three-album boxed set. Photo: NBCU Photo Bank / Getty Images The Chronicle’s guide to notable new music. NEW ALBUMS Angel Olsen, “Song of the Lark and Other Far Memories” (Jagjaguwar) The Chicago indie folk powerhouse has become one of those prolific artists who merit attention every year with a new release. This time around, it’s a three-album box set of her two most recent LPs, a bonus LP of new material and re-works, plus a 40 page booklet of photos and handwritten lyrics. Initially intended to be released as a pai...