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November 27, 2015
Los Suicidas
Soundway
This eight-track set, inspired by Colombian organ legend Jaime Llano González, is loopier and even more fun than Salvadora Robot.
Monastic Living
Rough Trade
Unpredictable Brooklyn-based indie punks' 2015 EP for Rough Trade is their most abrasive, experimental recording to date.
Why?
Idlewild Recordings
The group's sixth children's album offers more funny and thought-provoking songs about familyhood.
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Jaco [Original Soundtrack]
Columbia / Sony BMG / Sony Music
The soundtrack to the 2015 documentary offers a useful thumbnail sketch of the bassist's career.
Studio
Jakarta
The fifth album by the Dutch craftsman adds lots of soft rock and some Phil Collins to his smoothly soulful sound.
Futures
Dellorso
The dream pop band's first album in almost two decades is a brilliant update and reaffirmation.
Product
Numbers
SOPHIE's cheekily named singles collection is an instantly addictive introduction to the producer's hyperactive, subversive reimaginings of pop music.
Heady Nuggs 20 Years After Clouds Taste Metallic: 1994-1997
Warner Bros.
The Oklahoma psych-pop veterans revisit their excellent 1995 album with a deluxe package including rarities, covers, and live recordings.
Interludes for the Dead
Rhino
Neal Casal and friends deliver hours of exploratory rock created specially for the Grateful Dead's Fare Thee Well concerts.
Splashdown: The Complete Creation Recordings 1990-1992
Cherry Red
This set covers a two-year span of dream pop, shoegaze, and psych-pop brilliance from the criminally overlooked band.
Find What You Love and Let It Kill You
Tapete Records
An emotional return after a 16-year absence finds singer Alex Lowe at the helm of the '60s folk-rock-influenced outfit.
Low: Live in Chicago
Sonic Cathedral
Commissioned by the Museum of Contemporary Art of Chicago, the band's cover of Bowie's masterpiece is part homage, part reinvention.
White Light
EastWest
After a decade of silence, the Irish sibling quartet return with their sixth album, a collection of comfortingly positive and reliably pleasing folk-tinged power pop.
Anthology, Pt.1
Earth Records
Collection of rare and unreleased material from the vocalist who preceded Sandy Denny in Fairport Convention.
Reel to Real
High Moon
Final album from Arthur Lee's seminal group is an underappreciated fusion of rock, soul, and funk.
Nite Flite
Don Giovanni
Former Lifetime and Zero Zero singer goes solo in laid-back, hooky beach rock fashion.
Central Belters
Chemikal Underground / Rock Action
Sprawling collection that captures the nuances of the Scottish post-rockers' evolution over the years.
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A Boy Named Goo [20th Anniversary Edition]
Metal Blade / Warner Music
The 20th Anniversary Edition of A Boy Named Goo adds seven bonus live tracks from 1995.
The Rochester Mass
Cherry Red
The acid jazz pioneer expands his quartet to an octet, enlists a 34-voice church choir, and creates the first jazz-funk mass.
Nursery Rhymes
Karaoke Kalk / Karoke Kalk
Scotland's maverick jazz bandleader hosts an array of guests from indie rock and beyond on this set of reconstructed nursery rhymes.
A Simple Act of Faith
Cherry Red
First album in 41 years from the UK R&B/jazz/reggae group's original lineup is laid back but committed and full of great playing.
Love Is a Hurtin' Thing
Luv n' Haight / Ubiquity
First legitimate reissue of rare mid-'70s material from this lesser-known soul and disco diva.
Wake Up!
Believe
Debut album from the 266th pope of the Roman Catholic Church, setting his speeches from around the world to a soundtrack of prog rock, choir chanting, and new age flair.
Catalina Breeze
Drag City
Fred Armisen and Bill Hader's knowing parody of '70s soft rock is long on accurate detail, but a bit short on songs.
Supersonic Scientists: A Young Person's Guide to Motorpsycho
Rune Grammofon
The Norwegian rock legends celebrate 25 years with their first career retrospective, curated like a brand-new album.
White Horse
Alive
Memphis-style boogie revivalists hit hard, but with a sympathetic touch on the band's third album.
Anton Bruckner: String Quintet; String Quartet
Linn Records
The Fitzwilliam String Quartet presents Anton Bruckner's chamber music in warm and radiant performances on this 2015 Linn release.
Paul Hillier Conducts Arvo Pärt: Choral & Instrumental Music
Harmonia Mundi
Three albums of Arvo Pärt's choral music have been reissued in this slip-covered set by Paul Hillier and the Theatre of Voices.
Vivaldi: The Four Seasons
Onyx Classics
James Ehnes performs Vivaldi's The Four Seasons in a straightforward reading with the Sydney Symphony, along with works by Tartini and Leclair.
Verdi: Aida
Warner Classics
This is state-of-the-art Verdi, and for a lot of listeners, the new Aïda they've been waiting for.
Mendelssohn: Op. 44 Nos. 1, 2
Analekta
This Cecilia String Quartet release strips away Victorian accretions of fragile neurasthenia and gives Mendelssohn's music a more Beethovenian mood.
Cinema
Decca / Verve
Bocelli returns to the studio with Cinema, an album of movie songs, featuring duets with Ariana Grande, Nicole Scherzinger, and Veronica Berti.