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Hudson Mohawke

Cry Sugar

Electronic

Hudson Mohawke blends cinematic bombast with end-of-the-world celebration on his third full-length.

- Paul Simpson

Panda Bear / Sonic Boom

Reset

Electronic, Pop/Rock

This joint album from the longtime collaborators taps into the essence of their individual strengths and delivers its songs with a newfound sense of carefree joy.

- Fred Thomas

Boris

Heavy Rocks [2022]

Pop/Rock

The third volume in the band's Heavy Rocks series juxtaposes their punk, metal, and drone roots with rugged and raw experimentalism.

- Thom Jurek

Osees / Thee Oh Sees

A Foul Form

Pop/Rock

With a more streamlined name, John Dwyer's band detours into lean-and-mean punk rock, with a side portion of electronic eccentricity.

- Mark Deming

Kiwi Jr.

Chopper

Pop/Rock

The third album from this Toronto band fills out their slacker pop sound with the new additions of synthesizers and high-definition production.

- Fred Thomas

Tony Molina

In the Fade

Pop/Rock

Molina's first album that combines -- perfectly -- the bracing power pop crunch, melody-rich Baroque pop, and tender ballads he has previously kept separate.

- Tim Sendra

Sylvan Esso

No Rules Sandy

Pop/Rock

The North Carolina duo's engaging fourth album comprises intimate, delicately experimental electronic pop.

- Matt Collar

Erasure

Day-Glo (Based on a True Story)

Pop/Rock

Featuring newly recorded vocals, a self-sampling set of dramatic original tracks constructed by manipulating sound files from 2020's The Neon.

- Marcy Donelson

Danny Elfman

Bigger. Messier.

Pop/Rock, Electronic

The rocker-turned-film composer's 2021 full-length reworked by artists ranging from Iggy Pop and Trent Reznor to Little Snake and Machine Girl.

- Paul Simpson

Universal Truths and Cycles: An Appreciation of Robert Pollard and Guided by Voices

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Janet Baker / Jacqueline du Pré / John Barbirolli

Elgar: Cello Concerto; Sea Pictures; Cockaigne Overture

September 7, 2004

Concerto

The Elgar Cello Concerto and cellist Jacqueline du Pré are inextricably linked and this 1965 EMI recording of du Pré with John Barbirolli and the London Symphony Orchestra is the first great recoding of the work the ill-fated artist was to make. Barbirolli's invitation for the 21-year-old du Pré to perform the concerto thrust her into the international spotlight and remains one of her most cherished recordings.

- Mike D. Brownell

Elton Dean / Alan Gowen / Hugh Hopper / Dave Sheen / Soft Head

Rogue Element

1978

Canterbury Scene

On this night in 1978, Alan Gowen, Hugh Hopper, Elton Dean and drummer Dave Sheen delivered an electric jazz date. Though all but the drummer contributed tunes, it is Gowen's compositions and arrangements that walk the fulfilling yet tense line between strictly composed elements and improvisation, as the band -- inspired beyond belief – fire on all cylinders.

- Thom Jurek