Featured New Album Releases

Titus Andronicus

The Most Lamentable Tragedy

Merge

Pop/Rock

Intelligent, original indie punks create their most ambitious album to date, a guided tour through one man's damaged psyche.

— Mark Deming

Lianne La Havas

Blood

Nonesuch

Pop/Rock

The follow-up to a Top Five U.K. debut goes for a bigger, bolder sound without glossing over the artist's singer/songwriter origin.

— Andy Kellman

Led Zeppelin

Coda [Remastered] [Deluxe Edition]

Atlantic / Swan Song

Pop/Rock, Blues

The remastered 2015 reissue of Coda contains two discs of outtakes, rarities, and alternate takes.

— Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Led Zeppelin

In Through the Out Door [Remasterd] [Deluxe Edition]

Atlantic / Swan Song

Pop/Rock, Blues

The 2015 remastered reissue of Zeppelin's final album contains a bonus disc with alternate versions of the entire record.

— Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Led Zeppelin

Presence [Remastered] [Deluxe Edition]

Atlantic / Swan Song

Pop/Rock, Blues

The 2015 remastered reissue of Presence contains a bonus disc with four alternate takes as well as the unreleased "10 Ribs & All/Carrot Pod Pod (Pod)."

— Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Joss Stone

Water for Your Soul

Stone'd

Pop/Rock

Despite the incorporation of reggae and even fiddles, tablas, and flamenco guitar, an expectedly soul-rooted and deeply emotive affair.

— Andy Kellman

Buddy Guy

Born to Play Guitar

RCA / Silvertone Records / Sony Music

Blues

Good, straight-ahead Chicago blues album from the old master highlighted by duets with Kim Wilson, Joss Stone, Billy Gibbons, and Van Morrison.

— Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Natalie Imbruglia

Male

Masterworks / Portrait / Sony Music

Pop/Rock

Natalie Imbruglia gives a feminine spin to 12 singer/songwriters on this sweet album.

— Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Teenage Time Killers

Greatest Hits, Vol. 1

Rise Records

Pop/Rock

The debut from the powerhouse punk-metal supergroup led by My Ruin guitarist Mick Murphy and Corrosion of Conformity drummer Reed Mullin.

— James Christopher Monger

Insane Clown Posse

The Marvelous Missing Link (Found)

Psychopathic Records

Pop/Rock, Rap

Bright and uplifting one moment, and the destructive and nasty the next, the veteran rock-rap group sound inspired on their 14th studio album.

— David Jeffries

Gunplay

Living Legend

Def Jam

Rap

Finding a suitable home on Rick Ross' Maybach label, the rapper's debut solo LP is a perfect balance of gangsta and slick.

— David Jeffries

Totó La Momposina / Totó La Momposina y Sus Tambores

Tambolero

Real World Records

Latin

A wonderful, remixed, re-imagining of the singer's classic La Candela Viva, containing alternate takes and new songs.

— Thom Jurek

Benjamin Clementine

At Least for Now

Behind / Virgin EMI

Pop/Rock

A poetic, theatrical, and deeply compelling debut from this London-based artist who cut his teeth as a street performer in Paris.

— Timothy Monger

Red River Dialect

Tender Gold & Gentle Blue

Hinterground Records

Pop/Rock

The Cornwall band's third effort is a fragile and lovely set of seaside meditations on loss, life, and nature.

— Timothy Monger

Saint Asonia

RCA

Pop/Rock

The debut album from the Canadian post-grunge collective featuring members of Three Days Grace, Staind, Eye Empire, and Finger Eleven.

— James Christopher Monger

Seapony

A Vision

Burrito Thirty

Pop/Rock

Relaxed and low-key third album from the Seattle jangle pop quartet.

— Tim Sendra

yuk.

a n a k

Leaving Records

Electronic, Rap

Second album of hazy experimental hip-hop from Los Angeles beatmaker Chad Valencia.

— Paul Simpson

Fly Golden Eagle

Quartz Bijou

ATO

Pop/Rock

The Nashville psych-pop group's trippy second LP was inspired by the obscure 1973 surrealist film The Holy Mountain.

— Timothy Monger

Finger Eleven

Five Crooked Lines

Bicycle Music Company

Pop/Rock

Five Crooked Lines doesn't deviate too much from the band's post-grunge past, but it is built from more volatile stuff.

— James Christopher Monger

Daniel Romano

If I've Only One Time Askin'

New West

Pop/Rock, Country

Fourth solo album from the Canadian singer, songwriter, and instrumentalist is a splendid exercise in updated countrypolitan.

— Mark Deming

Dave Cloud / Dave Cloud and the Gospel of Power

Today Is the Day That They Take Me Away

Fire Records

Pop/Rock

Murky grandeur galore on the final album from Nashville's garage-punk maverick, full of cheap guitars and twisted love.

— Mark Deming

Arabella Steinbacher / Charles Dutoit

Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto, Op. 64; Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto, Op. 35

PentaTone Classics

Classical

There is still elegant and graceful playing in abundance. PentaTone's sound, recorded at Victoria Hall, is superbly matched to the intentions of the performance.

— James Manheim