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August 26, 2016
It's Hard
Analog Spark
The maverick jazz piano trio returns to its roots, reworking a set of well-curated pop covers and an Ornette Coleman tune.
Anything But Words
Warner Bros.
Stellar debut from the Interpol frontman and Wu-Tang leader that meshes so well it sounds like they were meant to be together all along.
Mangy Love
Anti-
On his eighth LP, the refreshingly renegade songwriter takes on life's messiness and timely sociopolitical topics with a smooth '70s veneer.
And the Anonymous Nobody
A.I.O. Entertainment / AOI
Largely sample free and full of big name guests, the trio's return to the album format is alternately exciting and frustrating.
Compass
Six Degrees
A joyfully ambitious cross-pollination of global collaboration under the umbrella of two prominent Mexican DJs and producers.
Easy Travels
Ernest Jenning
Infectious, lightly fuzzed pop, brimming with personality, hooks, and some extremely solid studio craft.
The Powerful Now
Shanachie
A surprisingly diverse yet hardly aimless album from the Georgia native, made with early collaborator Eddie Stokes.
Live 1976
Universal
Four 1976 shows from before the punk rock trailblazers became the U.K.'s most talked-about band.
Becoming the Beach Boys: The Complete Hite & Dorinda Morgan Sessions
Omnivore
An alternate take-heavy complete collection of the Beach Boys' pre-Capitol recordings.
The Monkees 50
Rhino
50th Anniversary collection of the Pre-Fab Four's finest strives a bit too hard to cover the whole story.
Encore: Movie Partners Sing Broadway
Columbia / Columbia Records
The acclaimed vocalist's second album of Broadway duets with high-profile guests also includes the surrounding dialogue from the musical productions.
Various Artists
Continental Drift
Fortuna POP! / Slumberland
Two great record labels (Fortuna Pop! and Slumberland) combine to show off two each of their best and brightest young bands.
Stay Gold
Dangerbird Records
The producer and songwriter's eighth solo album mixes the passion of heartland rock and a street kid's attitude.
The Second
Blue Note
On his utterly lovely sophomore solo outing, the multi-instrumentalist, composer, and arranger plays all the instruments on nine of 12 tunes.
Big Fugitive Life
Bella Union
A densely packed power lunch proving that Furman might be brimming over with enough good ideas to warrant an EP every couple of months.
How To Be a Human Being
Harvest
Inspired by stories heard on the road, these character studies bring heart and wit to the band's formerly aloof ambient pop.
It Doesn't Have to Make Sense
Cabin 24 Records
The singer/songwriter's seventh studio album, recorded in the wake of her mother's death and the breakup of her marriage, is an emotive, empowered pop production.
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Take It, It's Yours [LP]
Polyvinyl
These cool, dreamlike reworkings of classic punk and new wave tunes are beautiful, but more puzzling than revealing.
Dancing with Bad Grammar
PIAS
Channeling the spirit of '70s singer/songwriter folk, the British troubadour packs dense prose into his delightful post-modern acoustic blues.
Other Man's Blues
Empty Cellar
The trippy side project of Fresh & Onlys frontman Tim Cohen digs back into classic psychedelic pop with a couple excursions into post-punk.
Jura
Bloodshot
The punk/folk veterans and an American friend head to a tiny Scottish island, where they record a modest triumph.
Motion Graphics
Domino
The artist once known as White Williams emulates the randomness of digital feeds with his avant-pop project Motion Graphics.
Between Waves
Relapse Records
The longstanding post-rock group make a surprising move to metal label Relapse Records for their most inspired album in over a decade.
Los Niños Sin Miedo
Heavenly / PIAS
Raucous, slightly unhinged garage rock from a loose-as-a-goose Spanish trio.
Total Depravity
Nettwerk
An icy, loop-driven slow drip of Bad Seeds-kissed electro-funk and bluesy, minor-key wailing that suggest a Sisyphean dark night of the soul.
Brunei
Company Records
Throwing sweeping synths, sleepy bedroom vibes, and the occasional bit of weirdness into the mix, Williams focuses and scales back his space rock sound.
The Hanging Valley
Faux Discx / Gringo Records
The group's second album adds newfound focus and depth to their bracing mix of post-punk, shoegaze, and Krautrock.
Sunkissed
Concord
The '70s soul- and contemporary R&B-inflected debut album from the winner of the 2014 Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition.
The Sides and In Between
Nevado Records
The Atlanta psych-pop unit's fourth studio long-player crackles with vintage tube-driven distortion, needle in the red vocals, and Joe Meek-inspired theatrics.
Rhapsody
BR Klassik
Mariss Jansons and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra perform rhapsodies by Chabrier, Gershwin, Enescu, Ravel, and Liszt for this live album.
Bartók by Heart
Azica Records
For this 2016 Azica release, the Chiara String Quartet plays the six string quartets of Béla Bartók from memory.
Stabat Mater: Sacred Choral Music by Lennox & Michael Berkeley
Delphian
This is an important piece of British choral music that here receives its premiere recording in a sympathetic performance.
François Couperin: Les Nations - Sonates et Suites de Symphonies en Trio, Vol. 2
Toccata Classics
The second volume of Couperin's Concerts Royaux and Les Nations continues the harpsichord interpretations by Jochewed Schwarz and Emer Buckley.
Igor Stravinsky: Pétrouchka (Original Version from 1911)
Sinfonieorchester Basel
Stravinsky's 1911 ballet Pétrouchka is played in its original orchestral version with the transcription for piano for four hands.
Sommernachtskonzert 2016 / Summer Night Concert 2016
Sony Classical
Semyon Bychkov and the Vienna Philharmonic celebrate the 2016 Sommernachtskonzert with pianists Katia and Marielle Labèque.