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February 5, 2016
Big Black Coat
City Slang
Compulsive and deep, the electro-pop duo's first album in nearly five years is among their best.
Wonderful Crazy Night
Island / Virgin EMI
A knowing re-creation of classic mid-'70s Elton John that nails the sound if not the songs.
Night Thoughts
Warner Music
A grand, meditative, and moving record that finds Suede embracing their middle age without losing any sense of their glamorous identity.
Still Waters
Because Music
The duo's second album expands By Your Side's pop moments into an album perfect for chilling out instead of working up a sweat.
Is the Is Are
Captured Tracks
The band's tumultuous past is transformed into some of their most beautiful, and cathartic, music.
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Heaven Adores You [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
Universal
Soundtrack to the Elliott Smith documentary functions as an aural biography of the alternative singer/songwriter.
Opus
Astralwerks / Virgin EMI
With its epic title cut as its key track, the progressive house producer's long-awaited debut does not disappoint.
Commontime
Memphis Industries
The Brewis brothers have crafted a predictably brilliant smart pop album, this time with a welcome '80s pop influence.
Scheherazade
Bloodshot / Blue Rose / Missing Piece Records
Their first album in over a decade shows Catherine Irwin and Janet Bean are still writing and singing with moody down-home genius.
Long Time Traveller
On-U Sound
The country-reggae singer reunites with Adrian Sherwood and On-U Sound on a remixed, expanded version of this rare 2010 album.
We Are King
King Creative
Beatific electronic soul, all about plush grooves and rich harmonies, slow-cooked to perfection.
The Ghosts of Highway 20
Highway 20 Records
The great singer/songwriter ponders struggle and faith on this deeply personal collection.
Blues & Ballads: A Folksinger's Songbook, Vols. 1-2
New West
The guitarist, singer, and songwriter offers what amounts to a musical autobiography in these 21 beautifully recorded songs.
Human Ceremony
Fat Possum Records
The Brooklyn trio's debut is an assured and exciting slice of '90s-influenced psych pop with classic alt-rock flavors.
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Porta Bohemica [LP]
Megaforce
On her sophomore album, the singer/songwriter offers soulful, artfully written songs that combine modern production and roots music.
Avocet
Earth Records
At once bucolic and urbane, Jansch's 12th studio album is rated among the guitar legend's personal favorites.
Hold On!
Daptone
On the band's Daptone debut, they deliver ten dynamic, soulful originals cut in mono and live from the studio floor with producer Gabriel Roth.
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Lolita Nation [Deluxe Edition]
Omnivore
Excellent expanded and remastered edition of Scott Miller's wildly idiosyncratic smart pop masterpiece.
Lay Low
Lou Doillon / Verve
The singer/songwriter follows her award-winning debut with artful explorations of the difference between being alone and being lonely.
Khalifa
Atlantic
A laid-back and loose album featuring the single "Bake Sale" plus Juicy J as executive producer.
$99 R/T Hawaii
Fire Talk / Redeye Music Distribution
A frenetic and beguiling debut from this largely instrumental Orange County indie outfit.
Thought Rock Fish Scale
Paradise of Bachelors / You've Changed Records
The Nova Scotia indie quartet offer a subtly distilled sequel to their debut.
Hidden City
Cooking Vinyl
Concluding the trilogy that began with Born into This, the band touches on nearly every period in its history.
Escapements
Ghostly International
Deceptively varied and elegantly bleak second album from the Ghostly International-signed Brooklyn duo.
Back on My Wall
We Were Never Being Boring
The noise pop trio is now a quartet and their third album is another blast of noise pop energy and indie pop wistfulness.
An Arabesque
Medical Records
Working with Spacemen 3's Sonic Boom, the Krautrock-inspired group flirt with cosmic disco on their first full-length in six years.
Lost Property
Cooking Vinyl
Album number seven shows this British act's folkie leanings still inform their subtle but powerfully dynamic songs and performances.
The Psychedelic Swamp
Anti-
Playful revision of Dr. Dog's debut, turning the cassette-only release into a full album.
Kingsized
Yep Roc
A tougher, more grown-up band returns after a long break to add some noise and politics to its bubblegummy indie pop.
Hellelujah
Entertainment One
On their sixth album (and second with vocalist Jasen Moreno), the band continue to pummel with propulsive, no-frills mosh-pit metal.
All I Need
Sign of the Times
Vibrant blast of deftly produced, emotionally stirring, and stylish pop from the young British singer.
Mass Gothic
Sub Pop
Noel Heroux's guitar-based follow-up project to disbanded Hooray for Earth is mercurial but cathartic.
Reducer
Tri Angle
Debut album from a North Carolina-based producer whose unsettling beat collages recall '90s hip-hop at its darkest and most abstract.
Ladies & Gentlemen
Compass
Maverick bluegrass group brings a bevy of female guest stars to the studio, including Lee Ann Womack and Mary Chapin Carpenter.
No More Lamps in the Morning
Fire Records
The veteran folk outsider revisits highlights from her catalog on this sparse but moody set.
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Stages Live [CD/DVD]
Reprise / Warner Bros.
Live studio audience performance of Groban's 2015 Grammy-nominated album of the same name, including guest appearances by Kelly Clarkson and Audra McDonald.
Victory Motel Sessions
Alive / Alive Naturalsound Records
Dirty but potent debut album from blues-rock duo featuring members of Left Lane Cruiser and Black Diamond Heavies.
The Gamble
R&S
Nils Frahm, Frederic Gmeiner, and Sebastian Singwald build upon the musical collaborations of their childhood with their debut as Nonkeen.
Todo
Burger Records
Fun lo-fi garage punk done by some pie-loving Colorado guys with a knack for delivering hot and ready hooks.
The Complete Jessup Recordings Plus!
Real Gone Music
One of the founding fathers of bluegrass teams up with teenaged Ricky Skaggs and Keith Whitley on these early-'70s recordings.
Funs Cool
Rough Trade
The witty, uke-playing New York indie pop duo delivers a winsomely subversive debut.
Anders Hillborg: Sirens; Cold Heat; Beast Sampler
BIS
These four Hillborg works from between 2010 and 2014 have strong, accessible structures unmediated by any reference to tonality.
The Classical Piano Concerto: Steibelt - Piano Concertos Nos. 3 "L'orage," 5 "À la chasse" & 7 "Grand concerto militaire"
Hyperion
Shelley gets the fun found in the music, and the result is a fine choice for Classical era piano concertos.
Schumann
Deutsche Grammophon
Lisiecki's take on Schumann's Piano Concerto in A minor is antiheroic and completely counter to type.
Manhattan Intermezzo
Naxos
Four classical pieces for piano and orchestra linked to New York City, written by composers from the pop world.
The Spirio Sessions
Steinway & Sons
Familiar classical pieces in two-piano versions, performed in their usual version plus an improvised accompaniment, recorded with Steinway's Spirio system.