Arsenio is a music reviewer for WORLD Magazine and one of its original contributors from 1986.
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New Christmas albums
Christmas ghosts and this year’s Christmas albums
Three albums, all posthumously released, reveal much about their makers
Noteworthy new albums
U2 pans for wisdom in <em>Songs of Innocence</em>
New and recent country albums
A trio of Cohen-related albums—the second in two years—builds more songs on old ideas
New jazz albums
Movie’s <em>Black Album</em> hits the right post-Beatles note but holds it too long
