New Reviews for May 3, 2024

Reasonable WomanEditor's choice
Sia
Atlantic
The tenth studio set from the Aussie pop wiz matches the power and intensity of her mid-2010s mainstream peak.
- Neil Z. Yeung
Fearless MovementEditor's choice
Young
Using the idea of dance as a creative and physical engine, the saxophonist's star-studded cast travel across jazz, funk, fusion, R&B, and more.
- Thom Jurek
Spell Blanket: Collected Demos 2006-2009Editor's choice
Warp
Gathering demos for what would have been the pioneering electronic pop duo's fifth album, this collection abounds with raw brilliance.
- Heather Phares
Look to the East, Look to the WestEditor's choice
Merge
Beautifully sad, warmly played and sung album about death and healing made with subtle country-rock and electronic accents.
- Tim Sendra
Pull the RopeEditor's choice
Merge
With Ross Orton producing, mixing, and programming for the first time, the band comes off as a driving, futurist funk machine.
- Thom Jurek
A Dream Is All We Know
Captured Tracks
The '70s-inspired power pop band mixes up their subjects of obsession, re-creating styles of the Beach Boys, '70s power pop, soft rock, and the Beatles.
- Fred Thomas
Anniversary
Four Quarters Entertainment
Producer Butch Walker helps move the acclaimed Americana singer/songwriter into the country mainstream.
- Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Funeral for JusticeEditor's choice
Matador
A sonically thrilling and rallying dispatch from the Niger-based guitar hero.
- Timothy Monger
Solitude Standing
AllMusic Staff Pick - May 6, 2024
April, 1987
Behind its poignant hit "Luka" and the marvelous a cappella "Tom's Diner," Suzanne Vega's second album became a surprise breakout for a literate folk-pop artist during the height of late-'80s excess.
- Timothy Monger