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November 13, 2015
Made in the A.M.
Columbia / Sony Music / Syco Music
The now quartet's fifth album is another streamlined, shiny and bright pop confection.
Montage of Heck: The Home Recordings
Universal
A collection of Kurt Cobain home recordings, early drafts, and near-demos to accompany Brett Morgan's 2015 documentary.
Alone in the Universe
Big Trilby Records / Columbia / RCA / Sony Music
Handsome, excess-free revival of the sounds of ELO's prime.
Know-It-All
Def Jam
Promising debut album from immensely likeable, teen-aged Canadian singer and songwriter who mixes pop and R&B.
Church in These Streets
Def Jam
The veteran Atlanta MC offers an ambitious concept album with Janelle Monae and Monica as his only guests.
Heart Blanche
Atlantic
The "Crazy" and "Fuck You" singer's first proper solo album in five years is crammed with nostalgia and hooks.
First Comes the Night
Vanguard / Wicked Game
Isaak's devilish charm and romantic songcraft are on display throughout this vintage-inspired album recorded in Nashville.
Garden of Delete
Warp
A dense, dizzying masterwork that imbues the producer's flair for nostalgia with powerful emotions.
Bluenote Café
Reprise
Neil gets the blues on this archival set, collecting live material from his 1987-1988 tours with his brassy combo the Bluenotes.
Songs from the North, Vols. 1–3
Sony Music
Finland's iconic dark metal band issues a triple album that magnificently and artfully showcases its diversity.
The Miraculous
City Slang
On her wonderful third album, the singer, composer, and multi-instrumentalist frames her tunes with a 9,000-pipe organ.
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Buck 'Em!, Vol. 2: The Music of Buck Owens [1967-1975]
Omnivore
Exceptional chronicle of the second half of Buck Owens' prime, built upon hits, live tracks, and rarities.
When the Morning Comes
Epic / RCA
Sophomore effort and daunting follow-up to 2014 smash "Say Something," packed with arena-ready choruses and earnest positivity perfect for pop radio.
Night of Your Ascension
Thrill Jockey
J.R. Robinson's project portrays two lives as metaphors for violence and the sacred on this brutal, beautiful work.
Beyond Belief
Dead Oceans
Drifting songs and ambient works come together on McGuire's second album for the Dead Oceans label.
Crosswords
Domino / Domino Recording
Enjoyable, trippy EP of leftovers from Noah Lennox's most direct collection of songs yet, Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper.
Global Chakra Rhythms
Infinity Cat Recordings
Freed from their major label constraints, the Orrall brothers deliver a trippy, experimental whopper of a double album.
Paper Mâché Dream Balloon
ATO
On their seventh album, the band set aside their flowing electric psych sound in favor of concise pop songs played mainly on acoustic instruments.
Free TC
Atlantic
The L.A. MC and singer offers a diverse and weighty debut album with an all-star guest list.
10 Years Solo Live
Nonesuch
Extensive box showcasing the pianist's ruminative, atmospheric live solo shows in Europe from 2004-2014.
Chorusgirl
Fortuna POP!
Debut album from a band influenced by '90s alt-rock and 2010s noise pop, but with a sound all its own.
I'm Comin' Over
RCA / Sony Music
Chris Young emphasizes his softer, romantic side on I'm Coming Over.
Kylie Christmas
Atlantic / Parlophone
Kylie does the holidays with her usual gleeful energy, mixing chestnuts and originals with great cheer.
The Incredible True Story
Def Jam
The one they call Young Sinatra returns with an excellent sophomore LP that doubles as a sci-fi concept album.
Modern Dancing
Fat Cat / FatCat Records
Reunited with Hookworms' MJ as producer, the band pulls its songs taut and lets them fly, with ferocious and infectious results.
Is Stupider
Anti- / Exploding in Sound
The solo project from former Ovlov frontman Steve Hartlett is as noisy and fuzzed-out as ever.
Various Artists
Pop Ambient 2016
Kompakt
Compared to the other volumes, this is among the most tranquil, with few threatening sounds.
AmERICa
Fire Records
The great British eccentric moves to the United States and writes about the things he sees, from diner food to failing boy bands.
Gode
Smalltown Supersound
Abandoning the disco influences of his earlier releases, André Bratten's second LP is a spectacular, surprisingly confessional work.
Black Record
Fire Records
The latest edition of David Thomas' proto-punk band delivers his hardest, most rocking album in decades.
The Challenge Recordings
Sundazed
A four-disc box containing everything the "Lies" rock & rollers cut in the mid-'60s.
Losing My Religion
Fo Yo Soul / RCA
The gospel writer, producer, and vocalist poignantly exhorts the church to lay down its weapons and practice love, tolerance, and forgiveness.
Christmas in Tahoe
INgrooves / Sunken Forest / Universal Music
A sunny, breezy holiday record designed for listeners spending Christmas in California (or those who wish they were).
Mr. Foolish
Cascine
Two alumni of the Software label combine forces to create complex, retro-futuristic postmodern dance music.
Mediac
Fontana
The fifth album from the Toronto indie rock favorites is their most impressive studio creation to date.
Cool Uncle
Empire / Fresh Young Minds
Veteran artist Bobby Caldwell and accomplished producer Jack Splash mix it up for some dapper, easy-grooving R&B.
Songs in the Dark
Fontana / PIAS
The progeny of folk music royalty team up for this set of lullabies, some traditional and some slightly twisted.
City Lake
RVNG
The glorious 2010 debut offering from David Moore's ever-changing ensemble is expanded in this reissue.
Planning Weed Like It's Acid/Life Is Loss
Mis Ojos Discos
The Philadelphia/Brooklyn/L.A./Sydney quasi-shoegaze group continues to pave its own way with an effervescent and involving fifth LP.
West of Anywhere
Alive Naturalsound Records / Alive Records
An 18-track collection bringing together the career highlights of these latter-day power pop obsessives from Australia.
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Trouble in Mind
Second album from a Bakersfield-based group who play a refined brand of Ethio-inspired spiritual jazz.
Beings
Bella Union
An(other) absorbing, cinematic mix of dreams and creeping nightmares from the Newcastle indie rockers.
Nightvision
Saint Marie
The busy producer's first album under his own name in three years, this features a two-part requiem for Tangerine Dream's Edgar Froese.
Bliss: Morning Heroes; Hymn for Apollo
Chandos
Davis brings detail and a unified tone to Morning Heroes, a personal and somber reflection by Bliss.
Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber: Rosary Sonatas
Channel Classics
Offering period-style performances in multichannel sound, Rachel Podger delivers a gorgeous album of Biber's Rosary Sonatas.
Rothko Chapel: Morton Feldman, Erik Satie, John Cage
ECM
This is a marvelous release, equally perfect in conception, execution, and engineering.
Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 7
Reference Recordings
Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra present fresh interpretations of Beethoven's Fifth and Seventh Symphonies.
Alessandro Scarlatti: Con eco d'Amore
Harmonia Mundi
There are many junctures at which this recording of Scarlatti arias is positively haunting.
George Enescu: Complete Works for Piano Solo
Hänssler Classic
On this three-disc set from Hänssler Classic, virtuoso Raluca Stirbat performs the complete piano works of George Enescu.