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September 8, 2017
Native Invader
Decca
Conjuring the powers of nature, Tori Amos tackles political and relationship drama on this vital 15th LP.
Hitchhiker
Reprise / Warner Bros.
A dusky, hazy unreleased solo acoustic album Neil Young recorded in 1976.
Outrage! Is Now
Last Gang Records / Warner Bros.
The bass-drums duo return with another window-rattling hard rock album, full of energy and great songs.
All the Light Above It Too
1% For The Planet / Brushfire / Island / Republic
A deliberately light and quirky collection of barely dressed song sketches.
Antisocialites
Polyvinyl
The band's second album is more confident and more sonically impressive, leading to another brilliant indie pop insta-classic.
Southern Blood
Rounder
This final recording is as intimate, mysterious, and complex as the man himself. These ten songs offer an enduring, inimitable portrait of the artist.
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Twin Peaks [Limited Event Series Soundtrack]
Banquet Records / Rhino
The soundtrack to the cult show's long-awaited third season is as weird, dark, poignant, and beautiful as ever.
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Various Artists
Twin Peaks [Music From the Limited Event Series]
Rhino
This collection of songs from the show's third season is a stunning update to one of pop culture's most distinctive works.
Mountain Moves
Joyful Noise
Featuring Jenn Wasner, Laetitia Sadier, and others, the band's eclectic 14th album feels like a party that just happens to be political.
Okovi
Sacred Bones
Her return to Sacred Bones makes for some of her most empathetic and danceable songs yet.
Life Changes
Big Machine Records / Valory
A thoroughly modern country-pop album, filled with stylish sounds and sensitive soul-baring.
Trip
Heads Up / Universal
The groundbreaking guitarist fights back from a potentially career-ending accident to deliver one of his finest and most diverse albums.
The Source
Blue Note
The legendary Afrobeat drummer's earthy, harmonically sophisticated and endlessly funky full-length Blue Note debut.
The Bus Songs
Show Dog Nashville
Toby Keith revives his ribald party tunes and adds two new songs to the mix.
The Hanged Man
Superego
On his own after breaking up the Pharmacists, Leo returns with a thoughtful, often heartbreaking, album that skillfully blends mod rockers and restrained ballads.
Ariadna
2mr
Russian indie electronic artist Kedr Livanskiy produces another winning set of chilly electropop following her 2016 debut, January Sun.
Wildflower Blues
Cinquefoil Records / Trade Root Music
Founding members of Canadian alt-folk/bluegrass group the Be Good Tanyas share an easy rapport on their debut collaboration.
Signs
Concord
An openhearted collection of raging blues-rock and retro-soul that pleads for inclusion.
Out of All This Blue
BMG
The Celtic rockers embrace funk and hip-hop on an eclectic, accomplished, and ambitious double album.
Hippopotamus
BMG / Liberator
The smarty-pants Mael brothers are in fine and gloriously idiosyncratic form on their 23rd (!) album.
How Did I Find Myself Here?
Anti- / Epitaph
Post-punk cult heroes return with a new album that takes their sound into new, unexpected, but satisfying directions.
Try ;-)
Mint Records
The band's first LP as a duo adds hard rock guitars, country-rock textures, and more urgency to their sleepy psych-pop sound.
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Second of Spring [Black/Purple Split Coloured Vinyl]
Chapter Music
It took the band a long time to record their third album, but the effort resulted in an impressive collection of guitar-heavy, neo-psychedelic music.
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Planet Mu
Partially inspired by the ASMR video phenomenon, Canadian electronic artist Antwood's second album is a darkly humorous mind trip.
A Fire in the Sky
Rhino / Warner Bros.
Rhino delivers a 40-track retrospective that includes at least one song from every one of the blues-rock legends' studio albums through 2013's Now What?!
Wake Up Now
Fiction / Harvest
The ethnomusicology major follows up his Mercury Prize-nominated debut with a more vibrant outing recorded live in the studio with a band.
Saturn Over Sunset
Jagjaguwar
Cinematic art pop by a composer-and-artist duo inspired by the mythology of Los Angeles.
Guitar Star: The Complete RCA Singles A's & B's
Real Gone Music
All of the swinging, surfing, dancing, early-'60s RCA singles from the Guitar Man.
Light Information
Sub Pop
The Calgary renaissance man captains his vibrant imagination with confidence and vigor on album number six.
Two Windows
Morr Music
The now trio's fifth album tilts more toward the dancefloor, while still being smooth and warm electropop.
Shade
Megaforce / MRI Associated Labels
Bracing hard rock full of expressive guitar firepower, muscular rhythms, and purposeful, well-focused rage.
A Moment Apart
Counter Records
Popular indie electronic duo ODESZA expand their empire with their third full-length, featuring guests such as Leon Bridges and Regina Spektor.
Some of You Will Like This, Some of You Won't
Pure Noise
The Massachusetts pop-punk stalwarts offer up a collection of rarities and acoustic reimaginings of earlier material.
Bold
Mary Lambert Productions
Deeply heartfelt and emotional collection of endearing songs from the empowering Seattle singer/songwriter.
Forced Witness
Secretly Canadian
The meta-pop singer/songwriter's second album delivers slick character sketches of dysfunctional masculinity.
Lignin Poise
Beacon Sound
Pioulard's relaxing, engrossing album of hazy ambient loops is a bit more low-key than his Kranky releases.
Infinite Avenue
Smalltown Supersound
The Norwegian singer/songwriter comes into her own with her spellbinding second album.
New Driveway
Goner Records
The L.A. electro-punk duo's debut doubles as the soundtrack for skate collective the Worble's film of the same name.
Love What Survives
Warp
The British duo's eerie, minimalist, yet deeply emotive third album of electronic-based pop.
Ornette at 12/Crisis
Real Gone Music
Engaging set combining two of Ornette Coleman's live albums featuring his son, drummer Denardo Coleman.
Carpe Diem
Sinderlyn
The Canadian trio's third outing juxtaposes dark melodic undercurrents with brightly manic lo-fi pop.
Maurice Ravel: The Complete Solo Piano Works
Centaur Records
The complete piano music of Maurice Ravel receives lucid performances from Larissa Dedova on this 2017 Centaur release.
Andrea Antico: Frottole Intabulate - Libro Primo, 1517
Tactus
The frottola was a popular form in Renaissance Italy, and Andrea Antico's 1517 collection receives lively performances from Maria Luisa Baldassari.
Anton Bruckner: Symphonie Nr. 4 Es-Dur "Romantische"
Profil - Edition Günter Hänssler
In this live recording, Christian Thielemann and the Staatskapelle Dresden perform the 1878/1880 version of Bruckner's popular "Romantic" Symphony.
Eriks Esenvalds: The Doors of Heaven
Naxos
Esenvalds' variations in musical language are deployed in the service of the texts, and the effect is highly poetic.
Georgy Sviridov: Russia Adrift; Snow is Falling; Music for Chamber Orchestra
Naxos
Sviridov seems to revel in taking genres and styles that might easily become trite and making something fresh from them.
A Bouquet of Beethoven
Steinway / Steinway & Sons
Rangell devises an effective mixture of sonatas and lesser-known works, exploring the relationships among the great and the small.