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June 16, 2017
Crack-Up
Nonesuch
Following a lengthy hiatus, the band's debut for Nonesuch is dense, ambitious, and ultimately rewarding.
Weather Diaries
Wichita
Two decades after their undercooked farewell, one of the U.K.'s finest indie bands return with a spirited fifth album.
Pretty Girls Like Trap Music
Def Jam
Despite its slapdash presentation, this is a career high from the Grammy-winning veteran rapper.
BOOMIVERSE
Epic
Dominated by Organized Noize, Antwan Patton's third solo album is closer in spirit to his debut than its scattered follow-up.
Tomorrow Forever
S. Matthew Sweet
A sprawling collection of 17 songs that finds Matthew Sweet in fine form.
The Nashville Sound
Southeastern Records / Thirty Tigers
The gifted songwriter aims for a more eclectic sound here, and he and his band deliver the goods with passion and skill.
We're All Alright!
Big Machine Records
The veteran rockers sound tight, rowdy, and energetic on this set that's as fun as anything they've cut in a decade.
More Fast Songs About the Apocalypse
Mute
Frantically urgent follow-up to this project's 2016 debut taps into the visceral with hardcore, post-punk, and even industrial-lite antics.
Fake Sugar
Capitol / Virgin
Five years after Gossip's final album, the group's riveting singer returns with songs reflecting her comfort with life and her Southern roots.
So You Wannabe an Outlaw
Warner Bros. / Warner Music
The uncompromising singer/songwriter looks back to his country-rock days without forgetting what he's learned since then.
Abysmal Thoughts
Anti-
Now a one-man band, the Drums' fourth album dives into heartache to deliver the project's purest music yet.
Les Liaisons Dangereuses 1960
Saga / Sam Records / Universal
Long thought lost to time and previously unreleased, this revelatory soundtrack to Roger Vadim's painstakingly restored film is offered in a deluxe package.
Platinum Tips + Ice Cream
Drag City
The band's first two reunion shows are blended into a righteously ragged live document full of spontaneous, weird, and honest energy.
Another Summer of Love
Alive Naturalsound Records / Alive Records
Chiming slice of warm West Coast guitar pop with some serious Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers influence.
The Singles
Mute
Collecting all of Can's 7" singles in one place, this compilation spotlights the Krautrock legends at their most immediate, energetic, and enjoyable.
The Journey Man
Cooking Vinyl / Metalheadz
The drum'n'bass world's biggest star returns with another colossally ambitious double album that pays tribute to his myriad influences.
City Music
Dead Oceans
The L.A.-based singer/songwriter returns to his New York muse, this time evoking a darker, rawer tone.
Woodstock
Atlantic
These Alaskans scrapped an earlier album to work with three producers and 20-plus musicians in a deliberate swing for the pop fences.
Other
Cooking Vinyl
A confident, intelligent ninth LP that shares The Minutes' dramatic flare while adding acoustic instrumentation to electronics.
Towards Language
Rune Grammofon
The Norwegian trumpeter and some longtime collaborators continue their exploration and discovery in expanding the boundaries of jazz.
Iteration
Ghostly International
Composed as Seth Haley was adjusting to his new life in California, Iteration is the high-definition conclusion to the Com Truise saga.
How Did We Get So Dark?
Warner Bros. / WEA
The heavy drums-and-bass duo take some risks on their second album.
Hey Summer
Dirtnap Records
The second record by the duo of the Marked Men's Jeff Burke and Suspicious Beasts' Yusuke Okeda is a power pop meets garage punk delight.
From the Outside
Capitol / Virgin EMI
The band's debut album dives into tropical pop, trap, and EDM influences as well as hooky punk-pop.
A Place I'll Always Go
Polyvinyl
The second outing from El Kempner's indie rock trio is an inspiring cocktail of grief and love.
On the Echoing Green
Mexican Summer
The follow-up to the astonishing A Year with 13 Moons finds experimental guitarist Jefre Cantu-Ledesma increasing his pop sensibility.
Various Artists
Seafaring Strangers: Private Yacht
Numero
Brilliantly chosen, well-documented deep dive into a bevy of private press and barely heard soft rock treasures from the '70s.
Introducing the Crimsmen
Drag City
Disappointing, poorly focused second album from Mike Donovan's psychedelic noise-pop project.
Some Twist
Suicide Squeeze
More languid, high-humidity psych-folk from the Cotton Jones leader, with a nod to '70s AM pop.
Your Move, Vol. 1
Moniker
Excellent album of Tangerine Dream-inspired solo electronic songs from the the former Eddy Current Suppression Ring member.
Our Pleasure
Dine Alone
2nd album from these Ontario punks is another exercise in smart, passionate ranting with big guitars that sound venomous.
I Am Nice
New West
The debut from the 17-year-old singer/songwriter sounds like the work of a seasoned folk-pop troubadour with an LP or two in the rear-view.
Andy Warhol's Dream
Jagjaguwar
Raspy-voiced troubadour's debut resonates both warmth and danger, delivering tales of small town America via the tinted lenses of a young but well-traveled Midwesterner.
Rap Album Two
Authors
Plainspoken poeticism and downcast productions from the L.A. rapper/producer and associates, including Jameel Bruner and Low Leaf.
Louie Louie Louie
Savoy Jazz
A vivaciously delivered tribute to the California outfit's three biggest influences: Louis Armstrong, Louis Prima, and Louis Jordan.
Best of Crime Rock
In the Red Records
Ian Svenonius and company re-record several songs from their back catalog and fare even better the second time around.
Are Euphoria
Thrill Jockey
The duo's joyous third album is folky and futuristic, innocent and artful, and experimental and approachable at the same time.
Bioprodukt
Planet Mu
Nick Edwards' fourth full-length for Planet Mu is slightly less hissy than prior releases, and subtly alludes to early-'90s acid house and bleep techno.
Existential Beast
IHM / Invisible Hands
The L.A. songwriter and successor to the Laurel Canyon sound delivers lush psych-folk and timely protest songs on her fourth LP.
Shadow Expert
Carpark Records
The Carpark Records debut of a quartet that does an offbeat and breezy spin on math rock.
Music for the 100 Years' War
Hyperion
The 100 Years' War provides the framework for this album of Medieval and Renaissance music, sung by the Binchois Consort.
Vaughan Williams: A Pastoral Symphony; Symphony No. 4
Onyx Classics
Less is more in the Symphony No. 3, and there's much to be said for Manze's approach in the No. 4.
Carl Heinrich Graun: Opera Arias
Decca
The neglected arias of Carl Heinrich Graun receive sparkling world-premiere recordings from Julia Lezhneva and Concerto Köln.
Mahler: Symphony No. 3
Channel Classics
Iván Fischer leads the Budapest Festival Orchestra in a compelling performance of Mahler's longest symphony, the Symphony No. 3 in D minor.
Franz Liszt: Complete Piano Music, Vol. 46 - Berlioz Transcriptions
Naxos
For Vol. 46 of Liszt's Complete Piano Music, Feng Bian plays several transcriptions of music by Berlioz that Liszt tirelessly promoted.
Rachmaninov: Rare Piano Transcriptions
Naxos
A highly recommended recording of music that is not really obscure, although it has been deemed so for a time.