Featured New Releases for
December 18, 2015

Celebrating life snatched from the jaws of death, this quartet delivers a mosaic of metal, hard rock, and sprawling psychedelia.

— Thom Jurek

Cudi offers a sprawling and strange album that's more rock than rap.

— David Jeffries

The R&B singer co-writes each song on her seventh album, the highlights of which draw from the past while remaining in the present.

— Andy Kellman

Throughout his seventh album, highlighted by some slinking slow jams, the pop-R&B singer doubles down on his swashbuckling persona.

— Andy Kellman

Fourth album from Kentucky's Cage the Elephant, whose hard rock influences have shifted from Nirvana and the Pixies to the Black Keys and Arctic Monkeys.

— Neil Z. Yeung

Another exuberant live release from the tireless road band, with a set list featuring fan favorites, two new songs, and a Thin Lizzy cover.

— Marcy Donelson

Valery Gergiev and the London Symphony Orchestra deliver Scriabin's Le Divin Poème and Le Poème de l'extase with brilliance and precision.

— Blair Sanderson

Mariss Jansons and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Choir present a stirring reading of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.

— Blair Sanderson

Music from Horowitz's later life has a marvelous rarefied quality, and this live recording is no exception.

— James Manheim

This represents something new for the Choir of King's College, and a new perspective on Gabrieli.

— James Manheim

Currentzis' gleeful disregard for convention may be shocking, but it's a good kind of shock.

— James Manheim

This magnificent Mass in B minor is a testimony to the consistency of Gardiner's vision.

— James Manheim