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October 14, 2014
Anything Goes
Big Machine Records / Republic Nashville
The record-breaking duo consolidate their sunny bro-country success on their sophomore set.
Heart on My Sleeve
Capitol
Full-length debut from the poetic songwriter emphasizes her sweetly melancholic melodies.
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Hungry Ghosts
BMG Rights Management / Paracadute / Relativity Entertainment
Indie pop outfit OK Go continue their collaboration with Dave Fridmann on their warm and melodic fourth offering.
Songs of Innocence
Interscope / Island
Caught between the past and the present, this surprise record sounds modern as Bono recalls his adolescence.
Sweet Talker
Island / Lava / Republic
Featuring the hit single "Bang Bang," the British singer's third album is a no-holds-barred attempt to win over American listeners.
Black Star Elephant
Warner Bros.
Lite, breezy collection of proudly pop worldbeat that follows through on the promise of the single "Am I Wrong."
Slap Back
Vanguard
Idiosyncratic singer and songwriter gets a new band and a new sound, but holds onto her powerful voice and soul-baring songs.
Blood Moon: Year of the Wolf
eOne
A various-artists set based on the MC's new label gets retooled and retitled, and winds up a rocky solo effort.
Hold It In
Ipecac
The Melvins team up with the Butthole Surfers' J.D. Pinkus and Paul Leary on the eclectic Hold It In.
Memoirs of a Madman
Epic / Legacy / Sony Music
Chronological collection of standout tracks and singles from the metal prince of darkness' 11 studio albums.
...And Star Power
Jagjaguwar
Overstuffed double album from these '60s-obsessed songcrafters hides its few gems between long stretches of filler.
Spin-O-Rama
Elefant
The group's second post-reunion album is all original songs played with the same noisy pop brilliance they had in the '80s.
People Keep Talking
Hoodie Allen
With hooks, punchlines, and swagger all in abundance, the follies of youth sound utterly fly on the pop-rapper's debut.
American Middle Class
Slate Creek Records
The last of the Pistol Annies to deliver a solo album offers a richly detailed, deceptively relaxed portrait of middle class America in 2014.
Human Zoo
Metropolis / Metropolis Records
Detroit's Electric Six get back to their rockin' ways on their irreverent 11th album.
No One Is Lost
ATO
The Canadian pop veterans' seventh album is another compelling and big-hearted affair full of dancefloor hooks and warm guitar pop.
How I Learned to Write Backwards
Suicide Squeeze
Eerie yet melodic, this third and final album from the '60s pop-inspired indie pop act would also be the group's best.
Lucky 13
Blues Bureau International
When he gets a bit of that Jimi Hendrix vibe going, he sounds like he's stepping right out of the late '60s.
Goats
Other Music Recording Company
The Dirty Three's drummer and a virtuoso Cretan lutist assemble in a recording studio and create dizzying, kinetic, original music.
Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness
Vanguard
A ten-track set of Fun.-, Killers-, and Passion Pit-inspired pop confections that are as breezy as they are hopelessly melodramatic.
Bathtub Love Killings
Third Man Records
Ex-Black Belles leader and Jack White protégé delivers the colorful distaff answer to Lazaretto.
Worker
Royal Potato Family
Experimental trio outing from the adventurous Oklahoma avant-garde jazz and rock outfit.
Blood In, Blood Out
Nuclear Blast
Textbook thrash-induced mayhem that somehow manages to sound both classic and vital.
Ragged & Dirty
Ruf Records
On his second solo album, the guitarist heads to Chicago and delivers an album that melds electric blues, vintage R&B, and rock.
Still Life
Woodsist
Second solo album from former Woods member blends roots rock arrangements and passionate storytelling.
Shaken
Bloodshot
On her sophomore offering, the Danish pedal steel guitarist and songwriter creates an intimate and powerful portrait of loss.
Meatbodies
In the Red Records
Prime-quality garage punk with flashes of psychedelic and hard rock on this debut, but the jams are better than the songs.
Museum of Love
DFA
LCD Soundsystem and Juan MacLean members deliver a stylish yet emotive set of songs that define the DFA aesthetic.
Our Time Will Come
Metropolis
The group preach to, and pound on, their fans with a sharp and somewhat silly album fueled by what they do best.
The Swon Brothers
Arista / Sony Music
The Voice third-place finalists deliver a cheerfully slick and pleasant country-pop debut.
The Night Is Young
Southern Fried
The duo's second full-length expands on Be Strong's '90s dance revival with hypnotic South African influences and more thoughtful, kinetic songs.
Pink Palms
Fader
The brothers' first album for Fader delivers snapshots of teenage life filled with a fascinating mix of boredom and enthusiasm.
Film of Life
Jazz Village
The great African drummer teams with the Jazzbastards for his first recording in seven years, and it's a stone killer.
Animal Mother
Southern Lord Records
Today Is the Day show moments of brilliance on the band's uneven tenth album.
Bestial Burden
Sacred Bones
Pharmakon veers her punishing sound in a more viscerally unsettling direction on her second album for Sacred Bones.
Keep Me in Your Heart for a While: The Best of Madeleine Peyroux
Rounder
Career-spanning compilation of the genre-crossing jazz chanteuse.
Tomorrow Was the Golden Age
RVNG
Pianist/composer David Moore's enchanting minimalist chamber ensemble delivers a graceful and pastoral second album.
Legao
Bubbles
The Kings of Convenience singer collaborates with Icelandic reggae group Hjálmar on his wonderfully charming sophomore release.
Indian Ocean
Nettwerk
A warm, breezy, and soulful set of R&B-kissed country-pop confections featuring the legendary Hi Rhythm Section.
Absolutely Free
Lefse Records
Nice debut album from a Toronto trio who cherry pick the best parts of psychedelic and experimental pop, then mix them together impressively.
After the Rain
Editions Mego
A creative and enticing release from Mark Van Hoen and Louis Sherman that recalls the mid- to late-'70s works of Harmonia, Cluster, and Brian Eno.
Set Me Free
Righteous Babe Records
Following her coming out and 2010 secular comeback album, the Kansas-born songwriter returns with a rustic Americana sound that suits her well.
With and Without
Morr Music
The long-dormant Danish electronic trio reinvents itself with inspired collaborations and inventive new sounds.
Yes No Maybe
MoFunk
Flavorful, bottom-heavy synth-funk that recalls early-'80s R&B figures like Midnight Star, Evelyn King, Melba Moore, and Cameo.
The Movie Album
Universal
The German trumpeter realizes a career ambition with a wildly diverse collection of film themes played by a crack band and orchestra.
Carl Nielsen: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 4 "The Inextinguishable"
Dacapo
Nielsen's First and Fourth symphonies receive exemplary performances by Alan Gilbert and the New York Philharmonic on this hybrid SACD.
Moderato cantabile
ECM New Series
A superb release, even for those who think they don't like mystical composition.
You Mean the World to Me
Sony Classical
Tauber was a household name for some, and it may be that Kaufmann's fine release will be seen as a forerunner of this extravagantly romantic tradition.
Beethoven: The Last Three Sonatas
Alpha
Better known for his Schumann and Fauré, Eric le Sage ventures into less accustomed repertoire with Beethoven's last three piano sonatas.
The American Masters: Barber, Corigliano, Bates
Entertainment One / eOne
Meyers' work here at the very top of the violin's capabilities is worth the price of admission, and the album lives up to its title.
Brahms: Sonatas Nos. 1 & 2 for Clarinet and Piano; Trio in A minor for Clarinet, Cello and Piano
Mirare
Sévère delivers the goods with a capacity for whispering sounds unlike anything heard before from a clarinet.