Featured New Releases for
June 9, 2015

FFS

FFS

Domino
An inspired, thoroughly fun collaboration between two of rock's most distinctive acts.

— Heather Phares

Drones

Warner Bros.
Overstuffed arena rock political protest album.

— Stephen Thomas Erlewine

More Faithful

Mexican Summer
Third album from shoegaze-friendly quartet is a high-watermark of inventive production and darkly blissful songwriting.

— Fred Thomas

Wild Nights

Bella Union
The band gives more color and nuance to its gritty post-punk, adding touches of surf, psychedelia, and more.

— Heather Phares

Passion World

Concord Jazz
A yearning, literate collection of songs from around the world held together by Elling's nuanced, lyrical vocals.

— Matt Collar

Sub-Lingual Tablet

Cherry Red
Always the same, always different, the veteran band is in top form on the well-rounded and surprisingly busy album number 31.

— David Jeffries

Mosaic

CTD / Wharf Cat Records
Brooklyn's post-psych rockers add a second drummer and explore some visceral new sonic territory.

— Thom Jurek

3

Rounder
Semi-acoustic duo show off their strong skills as instrumentalists, songwriters, and vocalists on their third album.

— Mark Deming

Love Life

Def Jam
R&B
Seventeen years after her debut on Qwest, the Grammy-nominated R&B singer drops a low-key, drama-free Def Jam gem.

— Andy Kellman

Ones and Zeros

Relativity Entertainment / Wind-Up Records
The English stadium rockers' third studio long-player and first outing for Virgin/EMI.

— James Christopher Monger

Southernality

Republic
On its anticipated debut, the South Carolina band's well-written, passionately played songs wed modern country to rock & roll.

— Thom Jurek

COIN

Columbia / Sony Music Entertainment / Star Time International
Stylish, snappy, Strokes-influenced alt-pop.

— Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Pharmacy

Atlantic / Big Beat / Warner Bros. / WEA
EDM gets vibrant and vocal as Christian Karlsson and Linus Eklöw joins forces on this debut LP.

— David Jeffries

1983

Kompakt
A travelogue of steady, wistful, and melodic techno from the Danish producer and his second album for Kompakt.

— Andy Kellman

Teen Men

Bar/None Records
Melodic, chilled-out synth pop by a side project of two Spinto Band members and two artists that evokes rainbow-colored whirligigs on a breezy beach.

— Marcy Donelson

Our Toast

Empty Cellar / Empty Cellar Records
Third album from this California trio delivers rough-and-sweet sunshine for lonely and overcast days.

— Mark Deming

Smith & Handel

Chandos
These Six Lessons for harpsichord, Op. 3, by keyboardist Perkins is a world premiere. They hold the listener's interest, for they're more than "lessons."

— James Manheim

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