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Releases for
June 9, 2017
Chuck
Dualtone Music
Chuck Berry's final album is an exciting and fitting epilogue to a legendary career.
Lindsey Buckingham/Christine McVie
Atlantic / East West / Rhino
Containing four-fifths of the Rumours-period Fleetwood Mac, this collection of fine new pop material bodes well for the future.
Adiós
Universal
A final album from the legendary singer and guitarist finds him in fine voice despite the onset of Alzheimer's disease.
Revolution Come... Revolution Go
Fantasy
On their first record in four years, the quartet delivers their signature brand of heavy blues-rock tempered by soul, psych, and jazz.
Trouble Maker
Epitaph / Hellcat Records
Standard-issue punk with the occasional ska and metal sidetrips from the punk rock legends.
You Don't Own Me Anymore
New West
Produced by Brandi Carlile, the Rogers sisters' third LP is a marvel of quiet grandeur and steely Southern pragmatism.
In a Mood
ATO
Late-night soft rock that sounds like it was made of half Christopher Cross and half Van Morrison.
A Rift in Decorum: Live at the Village Vanguard
Blue Note
A challenging, sprawling live album of all-original material from the trumpeter and his quartet.
The Optimist
Kscope
Reaching back to 2001's A Fine Day to Exit for their muse, the Liverpool rockers push at the future to explore new possibilities.
Folk Songs
Nonesuch
The contemporary string quartet looks into the past, performing traditional folk songs with four celebrated vocalists.
Planetarium
4AD
A sprawling and haunting indie-electronic-symphonic collaboration inspired by the Solar System.
Binary
Righteous Babe Records
The activist singer/songwriter delivers a confident set that finds strength looking inward and out.
Dion Lunadon
Agitated
Dion Lunadon, member of A Place to Bury Strangers and former leader of the D4, steps out with his arresting solo debut.
The Concert in Hyde Park
Legacy / Sony Music / Sony Music Entertainment
Paul Simon reconvenes musicians from Graceland and runs through most of that album in a 2012 concert.
Sunny Hills
Domino / Double Six
The multi-national Liverpudlian-based trio adopt a harder more cathartic post-punk edge on their sophomore outing.
Hudson
Motéma Music
This all-star quartet -- who all live in the Hudson Valley -- deliver a conversational, relaxed, grooving series of carefully chosen covers and originals.
Agent Blue
Kanine Records
Gothenburg's death-pop band delivers an equally raw and sophisticated debut.
Trane: The Atlantic Collection
Atlantic / Rhino
An enjoyably concise, single-disc thumbnail sketch of the legendary saxophonist's innovative Atlantic years.
Marseille
Jazz Village / JazzBook
A gorgeous, dreamlike homage to the coastal French city that clearly holds a special place in the pianist's heart.
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Two Steps from the Middle Ages [2017 Remastered/Expanded] [CD]
Omnivore
Reissue of final album from Scott Miller's smart pop band; more user-friendly, but still reflects their adventurous personality.
Truth Is a Beautiful Thing
Ministry of Sound
The English trio's sophomore set expands their dramatic sound to cinematic levels, carried by Hannah Reid's powerful vocals.
Emotional Freedom Technique
Tender Loving Empire
Bittersweet synth pop from a solo debut inspired by years of life on the road for the perpetual collaborator and Death Cab for Cutie bandmember.
The Beautiful Stories
Dine Alone
A fervent blast of anthemic post-punk that invokes names like Killing Joke, X, Joy Division, and Siouxsie and the Banshees.
Rose Colored Corner
Light in the Attic Records
First collection from a gifted but obscure '60s songwriter; includes material produced by Lee Hazlewood and Jack Nitzsche.
Azulejos
Wonderwheel Recordings
The producer's extended stay in Lisbon inspired a set of festive yet soothing songs that capture the city's spirit.
Wolves
Virgin / Virgin EMI
Few things punctuate invective as well as stadium-sized hooks, gang vocals, and pick slides, all three of which the band deploy with utter impunity.
Black Irish
Compass
The singer/songwriter teams with producer Rodney Crowell on a set of originals and covers that showcase her ability to cross genre lines with authority and soul.
Private Tales
Dine Alone
Following the relocation of singer Bret Constantino to Texas, San Francisco psych-rockers Sleepy Sun return with their fifth album.
Split Decision Band
Now-Again
Anthology (1978-1984) of a Des Moines funk band who put their spin on the likes of Ohio Players, Parliament, and Rufus & Chaka Khan.
Various Artists
Welcome to Zamrock! Vol 1: How Zambia’s Liberation Led To A Rock Revolution 1972-77
Now-Again
A collection documenting Zambia's vibrant mid-'70s music scene, which combined hard rock, soul, and funk.
Cigarettes After Sex
Partisan / PTKF
The long-awaited debut from Cigarettes After Sex rides in on a wave of shimmering guitars and heartfelt confessions.
Howard Skempton: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner; Only the Sound Remains
NMC
Despite a sparsity and the unchanging rhythm of Coleridge's quatrains, the narrative drama of the poem is realized in full.
The Excellency of Hand: English Viola da Gamba Duos
Resonus
Listeners are taking pleasure in discovering these obscure treasures that deserve to be better known.
Monteverdi: The Other Vespers
Decca
Motets of Monteverdi have been combined with music of his near contemporaries to create a work to compare with his Vespers of 1610.
Mozart: Serenade No. 10 for winds 'Gran Partita'
LSO Live
A fine Mozart performance in a characteristically English vein.
Brahms: Piano Concertos
Hallé
Sun-Wook Kim and the Hallé Orchestra, led by Sir Mark Elder, deliver expressive performances of Brahms' two piano concertos.
Ravel: Daphnis & Chloé, Complete Ballet
Harmonia Mundi
François-Xavier Roth and his period instruments ensemble Les Siècles re-create Ravel's Daphnis et Chloé with the sounds of its 1912 premiere.