Featured New Releases for
July 7, 2017
Columbia / Sony Music
The trio's long-awaited second album doubles down on reassuring '80s and '90s mainstream pop influences.
Arts & Crafts
A dense, soul-searching blast of civic-minded indie rock/alt-pop comfort food.
Real Gone Music
This double-disc package offers painstaking mono remasters of Nyro's enduring first two albums and contains the artist's versions of many of the songs that established her.
Omnivore
Recorded from 1969 to 1971, 22 rare tracks offer a look at what the underappreciated pop genius was doing before Big Star.
Carpark Records
Turning away from the expansive power pop of What For?, this is a chilly batch of introspective post-R&B ballads, lightened by the occasional electro-funk jam.
Non-Delux
By turns thunderous and moody, the London power trio's fifth album is their toughest and most immediate-sounding to date.
Communion
The English singer/songwriter's exquisite third studio LP is a welcome return to a more acoustic palette.
Smalltown Supersound
Low-key album of minimalist space disco from eclectic Norwegian producers Bjørn Torske and Prins Thomas.
Nonesuch
The debut collaboration between the Decemberists and Olivia Chaney is as committed a piece of retro-leaning English folk-rock as one could hope for.
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Nonesuch
Canadian country traditionalist chucks the spurs in favor of a classic Tin Pan Alley pop approach.
Add It Up
Warts-and-all live album from the veteran new wave act shows they still have plenty of scrappy energy left in them.
PIAS
Plunderphonic pop group Public Service Broadcasting integrate more vocals and acoustic instruments into their sample-heavy sound on their third album.
Ipecac
Double album from the veteran heavy-mongers is one-half muscular heavy rock, one-half experimental noise collages.
New West
The singer and band deliver greasy, exotic, rootsy tunes as if performing live on the other side of midnight, where anything can happen.
Kirtland Records
The Texan electropop songstress delivers her most confident release to date.
Rough Trade
This Is the Kit return with another fine collection following the success of 2015's Bashed Out.
Embassy of Music
The wonky pop artist's second album features his kinetic production style as well as collaborations with Kelis and Imogen Heap.
Nuclear Blast
Decapitated's seventh full-length delivers a lethal mix of blastbeats and brawny riffage that finds the sweet decaying spot between melody and destruction.
3Ms
The great bassist revisits his long career and some of his favorite tunes through a dazzling array of arrangements and genres.
Polyvinyl
The second of three installments of demos rescued from Josh Hodges' dying hard drive is coherent and again largely engaging, if fragmented.
Various Artists
Real Gone Music
The first installment of a four-volume series chronicling the short history of the Warner R&B subsidiary Loma.
Amour Foo
Eurgh! finds Glaswegian D.I.Y. punks Breakfast Muff in satisfyingly chaotic form.
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Real Gone Music
The vocalist's sophisticated debut for Frank Sinatra's Reprise label featuring arrangements by Nelson Riddle.
Shelflife
Late-'80s-inspired dream pop and college rock from this Chicago-based quartet.
BIS
Gluzman's Brahms is a superb reading in the Russian tradition. Highly recommended throughout.
Accent
This 2017 Accent release by Laurence Cummings and the Göttingen Festival Orchestra marks the 300th anniversary of the premiere of Handel's Water Music.
Accent
This is of a rather specialized nature, but is still entirely listenable and even enchanting for the general listener.
PentaTone Classics
The sheer power of Marek Janowski's reading of Beethoven's Missa Solemnis puts it among the greatest performances of all time.
Hyperion
Steven Osborne delivers sparkling performances of impressionistic piano concertos by Maurice Ravel and Manuel de Falla.
Hallé
Mark Elder leads the Hallé Orchestra in this recording of Parsifal, presented at the BBC Proms for the Wagner bicentennial.