New Reviews for June 21, 2024

Proxy MusicEditor's choice
Storysound Records
The great heroine of British folk-rock recruits a team of artists to sing her songs, and they do so beautifully.
- Mark Deming
Texicali
Yep Roc
Two heroes of American roots music team up for a second time in a pairing that complements both sides.
- Mark Deming
Good TogetherEditor's choice
Concord / Fantasy
The Brooklyn-by-way-of-Boston soul-pop outfit's breezy, feel-good eighth studio album.
- Matt Collar
From the Mars Hotel [50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition]
Grateful Dead
This 50th Anniversary Edition of the band's solid seventh studio album includes previously unreleased live concert recordings from the same time period.
- Fred Thomas
9 Sad Symphonies
Kill Rock Stars
Featuring an orchestral pop inspired by vintage Hollywood musicals, the typically irreverent Brit turns in her most earnest set yet.
- Marcy Donelson
Water Still Flows
Third Man Records
On his fourth long-player, the Nashville-based ambient composer adds the tension of doom metal to his powerful, dreamy aesthetic.
- Thom Jurek
Zinc Alloy and the Hidden Riders of Tomorrow [Deluxe Edition]Editor's choice
Edsel
This 50th anniversary reissue Contains "The Alternate Zinc Alloy: Change", a bonus disc of 24 fascinating 'work-in-progress' versions and demos.
Cemetery Classics
Sonic Cathedral
The project's engaging second album focuses on elliptical pop that evokes artists as varied as Panda Bear, Daft Punk, and Depeche Mode.
- Heather Phares
Bad Company
AllMusic Staff Pick - June 26, 2024
June, 1974
This album, released 50 years ago today, is hard rock painted in stark black & white: cranked guitars mirrored by a deliberate wallop from the rhythm section, a rock & roll so loud and basic it wound up not aging much at all even though it pretty much defined mid-'70s album rock.
- Stephen Thomas Erlewine