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April 29, 2016
The Ship
Opal / Warp
A return to ambient and experimental music-making -- and singing -- this set offers more than a few surprises.
Nonagon Infinity
ATO
The ever-evolving psychedelic tricksters deliver their fiercest album yet, influenced by early heavy metal and made to be played continuously.
The Electric Warlock Acid Witch Satanic Orgy Celebration Dispenser
T-Boy Records / Universal
The ringmaster of carnival metal returns with another fun volume of B-movie horror and acid-industrial on his tightest album since Sinister Urge.
Paging Mr. Proust
The Jayhawks / Sham
Alt-country pioneers team with members of R.E.M. for a strong and ambitious return to the studio.
Heartaches by the Number
Omnivore
The Memphis retro-soul act celebrate country-soul on their third album.
1983-1988
Stones Throw
The electro pharaoh's crucial 12" and early album material, ardently assembled by the Stones Throw label.
Konono No. 1 Meets Batida
Crammed Discs
Exuberant collaboration between the long-running Congolese percussion ensemble and Lisbon-based Angolan DJ/producer Pedro Coquenão.
Ride Along!
Tee Pee / Teepee Records
Second album from these San Diego stoners is tighter and more ambitious, and doesn't let up on the rock action.
Transport
Tresor
Smoothly flowing collection of dubby minimal techno tracks by two of techno's most important, influential figures.
Virtuous.scr
Planet Mu
The Canadian producer's debut album for Planet Mu is a gripping, richly detailed work inspired by artificial intelligence and microbiology.
Various Artists
Close to the Noise Floor: Formative UK Electronica 1975-1984
Cherry Red
Discerning box of mostly obscure noise and odd pop excursions featuring acts like Bourbonese Qualk, Blah Blah Blah, and good old EG Oblique Graph.
Helter Seltzer
100% Records
An infectious, sonically adventurous mix of '80s and '90s influences with production from Katy Perry touring keyboardist Max Hart.
Luck or Magic
Double Feature
A sultry, yearning solo debut from Britta Phillips of Luna and Dean & Britta.
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Empire: Season 2, Vol. 2 [Original Soundtrack]
Columbia / Sony Music
The second soundtrack from the second season of the Fox hit drama, with songs written by Timbaland, Ne-Yo, and Swizz Beatz.
Total Time
Bella Union
The eclectic Toronto trio's second full-length of shamanic dance-pop is their most ecstatic, focused release yet.
The Impossible Kid
Rhymesayers Entertainment
The esoteric rapper gets autobiographical on his first solo LP since 2012's Skelethon.
The Westerner
Cool Rock Records
Ten evocative songs of life under the big bright sun of the West; a superior solo effort from the co-founder of X.
Dolls of Highland
Sub Pop
The cawing indie rocker's Sub Pop debut is a fun and loose breakup album seeping with classic rock influences.
Reckless
Nash Icon / Universal
Martina McBride signed to Nash Icon to deliver her first country album in five years.
White Hot Moon
Run for Cover Records
Second full-length by the Ann Arbor shoegazers shows no signs of the inevitable shoegaze letdown.
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Waltzed in from the Rumbling [Deluxe]
Secret City Records
The Montreal outfit's experimental fourth LP melds lush, detailed chamber pop with a dry, wintry undercurrent.
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Desire's Magic Theatre [Deluxe Edition]
Spinefarm Records
The mercurial Londoners cast an aural net of kaleidoscopic doom/wonder that manages to touch on nearly every facet of the psych-rock playbook.
Delusions of Grand Fur
Easy Sound Recording Company
With Zach Rogue calling it "the trajectory I've always wanted for this band," this home-studio outing blends bedroom warmth with doses of new wave.
Prayers for the Damned
Eleven Seven
The first part of a purported double album finds Sixx: A.M. offering melodramatic rock and existential protest tunes for the age of Trump.
Culcha Vulcha
Universal
The first studio album in eight years from this large collective delivers imagination, energy, and excitement.
Straining Hard Against the Strength of Night
Saint Marie
The debut album by the Brooklyn-based dream pop duo leans closer to '80s pop than the heavier alternative rock of the '90s.
Ocean by Ocean
Absentee Recordings / All Things Considered / Universal
A layered album of '80s-style dream pop sophistication that plays out with a sustained maturity.
Various Artists
Another Splash of Colour: New Psychedelia in Britain from 1980 to 1985
RPM / RPM Records
Exhaustive and fun overview of the nearly forgotten psychedelic scene in the U.K. that blossomed at the tail end of the post-punk era.
Light Enough
Sinderlyn
A sparse set of ruminative, existential vignettes by the writer/musician and his Nick Cave-evoking baritone.
Beethoven: Sonata No. 29 'Hammerklavier'; Bagatelles Op. 126
Alpha
Nelson Goerner's first album of Beethoven's piano music offers the late "Hammerklavier" Sonata and the Bagatelles, Op. 126.
Sibelius: Symphony No. 5 in E flat; Symphony No. 7 in C; En Saga
Hallé
Mark Elder and the Hallé play Sibelius' Fifth and Seventh Symphonies and En Saga with commitment and exceptional sound.
Mozart: Gran Partita
Linn / Linn Records
A fascinating example of Pinnock's way with Mozart with a fine example of the mature Haydn's jocularity.
Testament: J.S. Bach - Complete Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin
Avie
Rachel Barton Pine's recording of Bach's Sonatas and Partitas is a transparent and expressive interpretation of this touchstone for violinists.
Dvorák: Symphonie Nr. 8; Josef Suk: Serenade
BR Klassik
For this 2016 BR Klassik release, Mariss Jansons and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra perform works by Antonín Dvorák and Josef Suk.