The songwriter reunites with producer Kenny Greenberg to deliver the most confessional, searing, and artful record of her career.
The Nashville-based singer/songwriter's sophomore studio long-player is a winning pastiche of '70s soft rock and modern Americana.
Thoughtful, obscure, and important debut album from the underrated Australian band, now with demos and early singles added.
Filled with impressionistic dream pop, the duo's debut continues the 2010s trend of great atmospheric bands with Australian roots.
This large-scale work based on Allen Grossman's poetry is a masterful creation of artful sophistication and accessibility.
Released to celebrate the singer's 100th birthday, this is an excellent primer of her Columbia, Commodore, and Decca sides.
The L.A. studio legend's disco, AM pop, and singer/songwriter-infused '70s solo albums presented in one anthology.
The peerless singer records in Nashville with a crack band and special guests for a program of timeless R&B, blues, and soul.
The singer/songwriter gets appealingly messy with this vibrant, beautiful collection.
The French electro producer with two beats on Yeezus makes his debut on this excellent and odd LP.
An excellent collection of unreleased tracks from the historic 1996 sessions as well as live material.
The Houston group delivers its most fully realized record yet with a set of lonesome, sun-warmed, experimental roots pop tunes.
Second album from this Seattle group that blends beguiling, mysterious guitar songs with sharply funny lyrical themes.
Strange and beautiful archival recordings from this early folksinger who disappeared without notice in 1974.
Invigorating, compelling debut from the wry and furious Australian singer/songwriter.
Daniel Raiskin's measured approach to Mahler's Third gives it an almost otherworldly feeling of timelessness that makes it seem transcendent.
Brutally (and suitably) loud document of this band's psychedelic assault of prescription-strength noise.
The band's third album is their most accomplished to date, expanding their sound by adding horns and various keyboards.
The Welsh pop vocalist delivers an intimate, revelatory, jazz-infused covers album backed by the Bad Plus.
Born of frustration and hard times, the band's second album still improves on their debut by widening their sound and approach.
The producer's ambitious second album enriches his deep house with nods to kosmische and early electronic music.
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First masterpiece from the indie pop cult favorites, a bittersweet song cycle produced by Mitch Easter.
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Thoughtful 36-track overview that ranges from 1971 through 2013 but is heavy on 1976-1983 hits like "This Masquerade" and "Give Me the Night."
More guitars and a live band back the gifted MC, but the lyrics and music are as daring as ever on this third album.
The Old Crow Medicine Show guitarist's beautifully understated third solo outing is his best work yet.
Excellent double-disc history of the Dead told through studio recordings.
Shambolic, idiosyncratic, and utterly endearing '90s slacker rock-influenced debut from the British trio.
The former Das Racist rapper introduces his solo career with a quirky yet heavy debut.
Hahn welds these two works together into a program that might have been heard in Paris in 1880, and her playing has the same distinction.
A fine sophomore outing from the Portland, Oregon indie pop outfit that skillfully blends fuzzed-out Americana with psych-tinged dream pop.
Quickly realized second album from this abstract ambient duo focuses on samples derived from the human voice.
The ECM debut of this Danish guitarist with bassist Thomas Morgan and a drummer is remarkable for its understated ideas.
Fascinating stylistic shift from Jack Latham, who swaps metallic dancefloor tracks for contemplative, warped dream pop.
The guitarist/composer adds singing and songwriting to his résumé, resulting in what may be the record he always desired to make.
The band's fourth album takes a dream pop turn, with a cadre of unheralded female vocalists and Ian Parton in full control again.
Continuous dreamlike mix from the Brian Eno and King Creosote collaborator, enhanced with his instrumental piano cover of Yeasayer's "I Remember."
To celebrate the jazz legend's 100th birthday, the singer and a killer trio deliver a riveting set in tribute to her influence and legacy.
Gergiev and the London Symphony Orchestra bring excitement and passion to Berlioz's Harold en Italie and La mort de Cléopâtre.
Already excellent Compton rapper transcends to new levels of musicality and expression with this visceral, heartbreaking, and unrelenting masterstroke.
Second proper album from this singer and songwriter mixes up folk, pop, and indie rock with real smarts and palpable joy.
On his second killer effort, the octogenarian Mississippi bluesman revels in the heart of a juke joint Saturday night.
Legendary noise rock duo embraces a newfound clarity in the heightened production values of their sixth album.
Inspired by Julie Campbell's time exploring Manchester's decaying outskirts, her second album finds funky, joyful resilience in isolation.
The Jana Hunter-led outfit's third studio outing eschews the lo-fi minimalism of past efforts for Krautrock and new wave-inspired electro-pop.
Bold, messy, and life-affirming record that finds Madonna simultaneously looking forward and back.
Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony deliver an expansive yet detailed reading of Anton Bruckner's popular Symphony No. 4, "Romantic."
The vanguard pop singer comes out of songwriting retirement to team with producer and composer Chris Braide with stellar results.
With an all-star international cast, the bassist creates massive grooves and infectious melodies to link the past to the future.
The Welsh pop singer/songwriter comes into her own on her sophisticated and deeply layered third album.
Cellist Matt Haimovitz and pianist Christopher O'Riley perform Beethoven's five sonatas and three sets of variations on period instruments.
Now a Moon Trio thanks to the addition of a drummer, the group's fourth studio album is a rejuvenated blast of Suicidal psych pop noise.
Long-awaited debut from former Catwalk leader is a near-perfect indie pop album.
The trio's remarkably precise avant dance-rock gets a shot of adrenaline in this live document recorded at a Hamburg studio.
Second album from this Irish trio finds sci-fi metal with wailing synths replacing traditional guitars, and it's all the heavier for it.
Second time around, the Oasis leader sharpens his focus and expands his palette, winding up with a better version of the High Flying Birds' debut.
Kevin Barnes sets voluble, confessional lyrics to an edgy soundtrack drawn from New York punk and glam rock for a strutting and volatile song set.
Sebastian Rochford and company follow up their Mercury Prize nomination with a killer set of dub-inflected dark, holistic grooves.
The duo refines its ethereal electropop with songs that are equally challenging and accessible.
The performances from the OAE under Miller are excellent, with a good-sized group of period instruments used to produce a somewhat rough sound.
Working closely with his 2010s touring band, Ringo conjures a sweetly goofy and sentimental pop record that's his best album in years.
The Chicago guitarist pays homage to the influences of Tim Buckley, John Martyn, and more on this stoned, sensual set.
Massive 16-disc set of the funniest and strangest phone calls from the long-running radio show.
What makes this all so extraordinary is that there is absolutely nothing of pat pastiche about it, or even of experiment. A real triumph.
The influential Omaha singer/songwriter delivers a set of late-nights songs from the heart in spare but powerful fashion.
Hooky, neon-colored, '80s arena rock- and synth pop-influenced debut from the Los Angeles outfit.
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Debut album of smart, sophisticated, and emotional pop from the most underrated band in the Flying Nun stable past or present, re-leased in 2015 with added bonus tracks.
The finale of the Symphony No. 8 is masterful on this extremely engaging and intelligent Beethoven release.
The enigmatic songwriter expertly delivers a moving, eerie concept album that melds classic rock, prog, sophisticated pop, and electronica.
Compilation of early Flying Nun band's full discography, including a batch of well-preserved live recordings.
The acclaimed singer/songwriter confronts the death of his mother with this powerful song cycle of memory and loss.
The band's third album sees them sticking with their winning formula of noisy indie rock and poppy noise-rock without missing a step.
On its first album since 1998, this cult shoegaze band sounds as exciting and as dreamy as decades prior.
Sophomore release from this Austin-based quartet takes their psychedelic-filtered sound in exciting new directions.
The band collaborates with producer Ric Ocasek on some of its poppiest misfit anthems yet.
This robust seven-disc studio anthology proves there was much more to this Liverpool pop combo than baggy trousers.
More fractured, electrified, postmodern gutbucket from the band that defined the form; their toughest, most grooving set since 1996.
Career-spanning anthology of the Northern California punk band that unwittingly spawned Green Day.
On its excellent 12th album, the U.K. crew takes on prog rock, Hollywood, and the absurdity of it all.
Excellent debut by Masaki Batoh's new band uses psychedelic rock and folk sources to travel the inner spaceways.
Written and recorded in near isolation in Venice, Luis Vasquez's third album is his most emotional, and compelling, to date.
The whip-smart Australian duo emerges from a seven-year exile with a typically stylish, witty, and excellent modern pop record.
The singer/songwriter, his band, and producer John Parish record in an old theater in Bristol, England, around a single microphone.
The Danish producer's first full-length expands on his smoky version of house with seductive flair.
First-ever release of all the A- and B-sides from the studio-created AM pop sensation White Plains.
With an international nonet, the Australian songwriter deals out a killer mix of Aboriginal reggae, mixed by Errol Brown.
Ecstatic and joyfully wandering improvisations on this solo debut from the former Monotonix guitarist.