Featured New Album Releases

Depeche Mode

Spirit

Columbia

Pop/Rock

Intense, visceral, and relevant, the synth rock vets take aim at global affairs and demand action over fear and panic on a stellar 14th set.

— Neil Z. Yeung

Spoon

Hot Thoughts

Matador

Pop/Rock

The band's second collaboration with producer David Fridmann is a danceable, exciting reinvention that still sounds unmistakably like Spoon.

— Heather Phares

Real Estate

In Mind

Domino / Domino Recording Co. Ltd.

Pop/Rock

The sunswept daydreamers fine-tune and expand their distinct sound for arguably their best effort yet, despite the exit of founding member Matt Mondanile.

— Marcy Donelson

Conor Oberst

Salutations

Nonesuch

Pop/Rock

Conor Oberst turns the skeletal songs from Ruminations into a robust, freewheeling experience

— Stephen Thomas Erlewine

The Creation

Action Painting [With Book]

Numero

Pop/Rock

Exhaustive collection of smash hits that never were by one of the most exciting bands of the '60s, with new stereo mixes added.

— Tim Sendra

Jarvis Cocker / Chilly Gonzales

Room 29

Deutsche Grammophon

Pop/Rock

A wry spin on dinner theater that celebrates Hollywood's legendary Chateau Marmont.

— Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Gary Clark, Jr.

Live North America 2016

Atlantic / Warner Bros.

Blues

Groove-oriented live album that nevertheless displays Clark's ample chops.

— Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Regina Spektor

Live on Soundstage

BMG / BMG Soundstage

Pop/Rock

Focusing on 2016's Remember Us to Life, Spektor's second live album captures a performance for PBS in a 400-seat TV studio in Chicago.

— Marcy Donelson

Anohni

Paradise

Secretly Canadian

Pop/Rock

Follow-up EP to the 2016 album Hopelessness follows similar styles and themes, but with more satisfying results.

— Mark Deming

Rick Ross

Rather You Than Me

Epic

Rap

Mostly routine, intermittently potent work from the rapper on his ninth album and first for Epic.

— Andy Kellman

Lloyd Cole

In New York: Collected Recordings 1988-1996

Polydor

Pop/Rock

A collection of the oft-overlooked singer/songwriter's early-'90s career, including an unreleased-at-the-time album and a disc of demos.

— Tim Sendra

Mario Batkovic

Invada

Avant-Garde

Mario Batkovic treats accordion music to a breathless 20th century makeover.

— Bekki Bemrose

Zara Larsson

So Good

Epic

Pop/Rock

Living up to its title, this sophomore set from the Swedish singer puts youthful abandon and empowerment at the fore of a great pop collection.

— Neil Z. Yeung

Jacaszek

Kwiaty

Ghostly International

Electronic, Pop/Rock

Drawing from the poetry of Robert Herrick, Polish electro-acoustic composer Jacaszek produces some of his most daring yet accessible work to date.

— Paul Simpson

Pitbull

Climate Change

Mr. 305 / RCA

Pop/Rock

The perennial party-starter and embodiment of Miami travel advertising packs his tenth LP with an impressive guest list and his trademark feel-good jams.

— Neil Z. Yeung