Featured New Releases for
October 4, 2024
Atlantic / MULTIPLE
On this sibling set to Music of the Spheres, the band remains in orbit, trying to unite the universe with positivity and love.
Columbia
An inviting, emotionally complex nostalgia trip taken primarily with Kacey Musgraves collaborators Ian Fitchuk, Daniel Tashian, and Josh Moore.
Merge
Dan Snaith extends the club-friendly sound of his work as Daphni into his main project, resulting in his most outwardly expressive music.
Elektra / Rhino
The fourth volume in the artist's lauded archives series extends its third volume with outtakes, alternates, and concert recordings.
Matador
Band that includes members of Pavement, Superwolves, the Cairo Gang, and Dirty Three, combining the sum of their parts and then piling on more guitars.
Merge
In three fine-drawn movements, the singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist/composer/producer cope with tragedy and grief with intent to comfort the listener.
Anti-
Mixing warm orchestral textures with eerie synths and distorted effects, and themes of loss with aspiration, LP six eludes simplicity.
Constellation
The Canadian ensemble's most explicitly political work is triumphant and uplifting rather than bleak and mournful.
Ded Strange
The band's seventh album rails against conformity with ear-bleeding sonics and glowering post-punk.
Polyvinyl
An expansive and exploratory double LP reflecting on numerous memories, absences, and life changes.
Various Artists
Ace
Classics and deep cuts from SWV, Jade, Karyn White, En Vogue, and other women who exemplified contemporary R&B in the post-Control era.
Nonesuch
The Virginia guitarist's first release for Nonesuch is effervescent and adventurous with many collaborators.
Cooking Vinyl
In honor of Alf's 40th anniversary, she revisits her solo catalog with 16 remakes (and two originals) chosen for their current thematic relevance.
Fire Records
The debut album from members of Electrelane and It Hugs Back is a sonically impressive entry in the always fascinating genre of cinematic psychedelia.
Daptone
On their second long-player, the California trio expand their musical reach in juxtaposing soul and retro-R&B with classic American pop.
ECM
The pianist's trio plays through and combines hymnody, folk song, and post-bop, carving room for sensitive improvisational opportunities.
Bobo Integral
The fourth album from this Australian group continues to branch out in multiple directions from synth pop to orchestral grooves.
Relapse Records
The entirety of a five-EP instrumental series, paring Kevin Martin's apocalyptic dub to its essence.
Alpha
A juxtaposition of Schubert with the music of a contemporary throws his style into sharp relief.
Pentatone
A relatively intimate program of song-related Liszt material relies on clarity and precision more than fireworks.
Resonus Classics
Varied group of settings have largely been revived from obscurity in observance of the centenary of Stanford's death.
Harmonia Mundi
A fine Fauré recital traces the increasing complexity of the composer's keyboard style.
ECM New Series
A collection of Scandinavian and British Isles folk and folk-flavored material contains chamber music elaborations.
Hyperion
Reconstructed Obrecht mass receives an intimate rendering shaped by the performers' ideas about the music's original environment.