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November 20, 2015
Dark Sky Island
Warner Bros.
The Irish singer/composer's lushly crafted eighth album harkens back to her early masterworks.
Strangeulation, Vol. 2
RBC Records / Strange Music
Tech N9ne and his Strange Music crew offer a label sampler that doubles as an underground rap party.
Top 5 Dead or Alive
Def Jam
The veteran's fourth solo album is a diverse triumph, featuring Diddy, Future, Lil Wayne, and many other worthy guests.
Mutant
Mute
The producer's volatile second album is some of her most challenging, fractured, and emotional music.
Look Around
Domino
A career-spanning collection that cherry picks classic singles and album tracks from one of America's best indie pop bands ever.
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The Legendary Live Tapes, 1978-1981
Columbia / Legacy
This four-disc box, taken mostly from board tapes and curated by Peter Erskine and Tony Zawinul, captures the band at a live peak.
The Complete Matrix Tapes
Polydor
Refurbished live tapes of the fabled proto-punks provide excellent and most listenable evidence of their strength on-stage.
Songs from the Trees: A Musical Memoir Collection
Elektra / Rhino
Double-disc collection designed to accompany Carly Simon's 2015 memoir Boys in the Trees.
A Love Supreme
Verve
Massively influential and quintessential exploration of modal jazz and one of Coltrane's finest hours.
South Atlantic Blues
Saint Cecilia Knows
A hazy, soulful psychedelic singer/songwriter album from 1968 in the vein of Tim Buckley and Astral Weeks.
Empire: Original Soundtrack, Season 2
Columbia / Sony Music
First volume of songs from season two of the Fox smash Empire, including spots from Pitbull, Petey Pablo, Becky G, and Timbaland himself.
A Night at the Odeon: Hammersmith 1975
Hollywood
Queen's gloriously exuberant, epically rocking 1975 Christmas Eve concert at London's Hammersmith Odeon.
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Beach Boys' Party! Uncovered and Unplugged [Deluxe]
Capitol / Virgin EMI
Loose and fun collection of hits and oldies recorded by the Boys in singalong style.
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Roger Waters The Wall [Original Soundtrack]
Columbia / Legacy / Sony Music
Soundtrack to the film documenting Roger Waters' 21st century rendition of The Wall sounds like the Pink Floyd original yet feels different.
Busted Jukebox, Vol. 1
Dualtone Music / Shrimp
Idiosyncratic Americana duo mix it up with this album of covers and collaborations.
Hark the Silence
Drag City
On their second album in just seven months, the Masaki Batoh-led unit shows its wilder, heavier, more improvisational side.
This Is Not a Miracle
ECM
Originally recorded live in the studio, Thomas Strønen's extensive post-production results in the band's most groove-oriented effort.
Shadow of a Doubt
ESGN
Gucci Mane, E-40, and Tory Lanez join the Gary, Indiana MC on this versatile and vibrant LP.
String Quartet Live!
Joyful Noise
K Ishibashi proves himself a top-notch arranger as well as performer on reworkings of eight of his own songs plus a Talking Heads cover.
Heighty Hi: The Best of Lee Michaels
Manifesto
Features 20 songs -- including hits and fan favorites -- from the keyboard rocker's 1968 to 1972 tenure with A&M Records.
Mette Henriette
ECM
The Norwegian saxophonist and composer leads two very different ensembles on her auspicious, provocative double-length debut.
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Second Toughest in the Infants [Remastered Super Deluxe Edition]
Universal
Underworld's second album with DJ Darren Emerson refined and expanded their progressive house sound, producing some of their best work.
Wild Winter
Full Time Hobby
Yuletide album from the indie folk duo is a lovely, well-crafted effort that doesn't sound much like a Christmas album.
Dark Matter
Saint Marie
Former Curve guitarist Dean Garcia and his daughter Rose Berlin embrace the dark, moody side of trip-hop on their sixth album as SPC ECO.
Is Stupider
Exploding in Sound
The solo project from former Ovlov frontman Steve Hartlett is as noisy and fuzzed-out as ever.
Backlash, Baby
Lame-O Records / Rumbletowne Records
Rambunctious, energetic emo-punk-pop band's excellent return after eight years away from the studio.
One Way Street: The Sub Pop Albums
Sub Pop
Special LP box set contains new vinyl pressings of the first five solo albums from the former Screaming Trees frontman.
Greatest Hits
Elektra / Rhino
Chapman has amassed more than enough quality material for a sonic victory lap, and this 18-track set doesn't disappoint.
Granados, Turina: Piano Quintets
Harmonia Mundi
This is a major expansion of the sparse Romantic piano quintet repertory.
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3; Mass in C major
SFS / SFS Media
A distinctive and very strong live Beethoven release.
Brahms: Symphony No. 4; Hungarian Dances 3, 7 & 11
Channel Classics
Iván Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra continue their series of Brahms symphonies with a solid reading of the Symphony No. 4.
The Mozart Recordings
Glossa
Frans Brüggen's acclaimed Mozart recordings with the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century have been collected in this 8-CD box set.
Bach, Beethoven, Rzewski
Sony Classical
Levit has knitted three ambitious and extremely difficult variation sets together with a common style.
Voice of Peace
Decca
This is a program with a relative lack of familiarity of most of the material, in America or anywhere else.