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September 2, 2014
Barragán
Asawa Kuru
The band's ninth album fashions whispers of Krautrock, chamber folk, and electro-pop into bewitching, quietly audacious songs.
Seen It All: The Autobiography
Def Jam
Rick Ross, Game, and Jay-Z join the Atlanta rapper on this excellent effort featuring "Me OK" and "Seen It All."
Overjoyed
Joyful Noise
Jad and David Fair celebrate the joys of life in the modern world, with some help from John Dieterich of Deerhoof.
Hallways
Stones Throw
The skilled rapper combines street knowledge and progressive lyrics on his proud and vibrant sophomore release.
Anchor
Temporary Residence
Second album from this Books spinoff improves greatly on the first with more spacious and thoughtful compositions.
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Step Back [LP]
Megaforce
It's comforting to know that he went out in peace with the blues and his legacy, and most importantly, without his skills diminishing.
Picture You Staring
Arbutus Records
Second album from Montreal quartet merges sophisticated '80s pop and blurry home-recorded production.
Double Youth
Asthmatic Kitty
Drawing inspiration from a long-lost childhood artifact, Helado Negro's fourth album is equally dreamlike and funky.
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Tical [Deluxe Edition]
Def Jam
The Wu-Tang Clan member's debut album is a stunning, violent, and tuneful rap classic, here featuring a bonus disc of remixes and singles.
Somewhere Under Wonderland
Capitol / Virgin EMI
First album of new original material since 2008 finds these alt-folk champions sounding optimistic and even giddy at times.
Poor People Are Revolting
12XU Records
Debut album by a gang of Pavement-Sonic Youth-Fall worshipers that has enough punch and vinegar to escape their idols' shadows.
Opening
Ghostly International
A deeply subtle and finely tuned ambient multimedia work by this captivating San Francisco artist.
Wicked Nature
MGM / Wicked Nature Music
A double album from the neo-grunge outfit means there's even more space for Craig Nicholls' Nirvana worship.
Primitive and Deadly
Southern Lord Records
The band delivers heaviness and melody on this bleak , sublime set with guest vocals form Mark Lanegan and Rabia Shaheen Qazi.
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The Nature of Connections [LP]
Rune Grammofon
The Norwegian trumpeter delivers a beautifully wrought collection that walks between folk-inflected chamber jazz and neo-classical music.
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Blaze of Glory [Bonus Tracks] [LP]
Omnivore
First album from iconic smart pop band; great songs and lively performances outweigh home-brewed production.
Nick & Knight
BMG / BMG Rights Management / Relativity Entertainment
Cannily stylish neo-disco throwback from the BSB and NKOTB vets.
Where Were You Then? 1991-1997
Bad Paintings
Well-chosen and timely career-spanning collection of tracks from the noisy California indie rockers who became Beachwood Sparks.
Classic Zeus
Arts & Crafts
Third album from this Canadian indie pop band may not be a classic, but it certainly ranks with their best work.
Still Life Moving Fast
Roadrunner Records
An evocative, brutal, wily, and occasionally wistful set of post-hardcore-, prog-metal-, and ambient pop-fueled confections.
Soft Friday
Nettwerk / Nettwerk Music Group
The duo's debut makes the most of their glamorous yet trippy garage pop.
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Beyond the Black Rainbow [Original Soundtrack]
Death Waltz Recording Co. / Jagjaguwar
The score for the 2012 film by Panos Cosmatos evokes the great, synth driven soundtracks of the 1970s and '80s.
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Laura Jean [LP]
Chapter Music
The Australian songwriter delivers a strikingly intimate and deeply affecting record of spare beauty.
![Album cover for Things Haven't Gone Well [LP] by Music Blues](https://fastly-s3.allmusic.com/release/mr0004213034/front/220/6w9RkM8YADg7EJ32hcpmkCpQg_7iAU1wjqLgK_xGXts=.jpg)
Things Haven't Gone Well [LP]
Thrill Jockey
An emotionally and sonically crushing debut from Stephen Tanner's solo project Music Blues.
Golden Skies
Brainfeeder
The L.A. beat scene associate's Brainfeeder album evocatively incorporates early electronic music, ambient techno, and low-key R&B.
Hot Box 1974-1994
Munster / Munster Records
Two decades of rock & roll noise on this anthology of rare recordings from Michigan's proto-punk experimentalists.
Don't Let Your Son Grow Up to Be a Cowboy: Unreleased Recordings 1981-82
Cherry Red
Collection of unreleased tracks by the star-crossed Scottish indie pop band signed to Postcard Records just before they went under.
Lost Reworks
In My Room
The Denmark-based producer's least danceable album becomes even more so on this indie rock-styled set of remixes.
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Vehicle [Expanded Edition]
Real Gone Music
Debut album from Illinois horn rockers is more diverse than their sole hit single might suggest.
Star Climbing
Embassy One
The trio's fourth album takes its breezy electro-pop in a more romantic, atmospheric direction.
More Lies from the Gooseberry Bush
Guided by Voices, Inc.
Robert Pollard plays all the instruments on 15 new songs, unintentionally revealing why he shouldn't.
Live from the Detroit Jazz Festival: 2013
Mack Avenue
The Mack Avenue label supergroup's second live concert release recorded at the Detroit Jazz Festival.
Richard Strauss: Elektra
Deutsche Grammophon
In celebration of Richard Strauss' 150th birthday, Thielemann and the Staatskapelle Dresden present one of the finest recordings of Elektra.
Stravinsky: Le Sacre du printemps; Petrouchka
Actes Sud / Musicales Actes Sud
François-Xavier Roth and his extraordinary period instrument ensemble Les Siècles re-create the original 1913 version of Le Sacre du printemps.
Elgar: Symphony No. 1; Cockaigne (In London Town)
BIS
Sakari Oramo presents Elgar's First Symphony in an audiophile recording that compares favorably with two landmark recordings.
Sing, Ye Birds, a Joyous Song
Delos
The singers here show themselves adept in the widely varying collection of styles on this release, even among the Renaissance pieces
Mozart: Piano Concertos, KV 238 & 415
Oehms Classics
Frölich's performance here is restrained, sensitive, and not without a touch of humor and the Figaro overture is quite simply one of the best around.
My Beloved's Voice: Sacred Songs of Love
Signum Classics
As an anthology of British collegiate choral singing, this collection, featuring the Choir of Jesus College Cambridge, works reasonably well.