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September 29, 2017
Relatives in Descent
Domino
Outstanding fourth album from these Detroit indie rockers is smart, introspective, and fiercely aggressive all at once.
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A New Career in a New Town [1977-1982]
Parlophone / Rhino
A handsome, alluring, and exceptional-sounding box containing all of Bowie's LPs from 1977-1982.
Sorry Is Gone
ATO
With production by John Agnello, JLM's fourth solo LP balances atmosphere and grit, and heartache and empowerment.
Tell Me You Love Me
Hollywood / Island / Polydor / Safe House
Lovato gets carnal on this modern R&B album.
Now
Mercury / Mercury Nashville
Shania Twain splits the difference between '90s retro and modern country on her comeback.
Dreams and Daggers
Mack Avenue
An emotionally layered set of live and studio recordings featuring the singer and her trio, as well as the classical string ensemble the Catalyst Quartet.
Out of Silence
Lester Records / Neil Finn
An austere and sweet collection of songs recorded live in the studio.
The Centre Cannot Hold
Mute
Recorded by Steve Albini and featuring an impressive cast of contributors, Ben Frost's second studio album for Mute is a forceful, commanding work.
Arise
Brownswood
The jazz vocalist futher explores her Afro-Caribbean roots on her third album for Gilles Peterson's Brownswood label.
Harmony of Difference
Young Turks
This six-track EP focuses on the saxophonist/composer/arranger's provocative and inclusive ideas about counterpoint as a cornerstone of harmony -- literally and metaphorically.
Who Needs Tomorrow... A 30 Year Retrospective
Cherry Red
Double-disc collection of songs, both released and unreleased, from the long and brilliant career of the Scottish indie pop band.
Neō Wax Bloom
Brainfeeder
An extremely giddy, hyperkinetic rush of complex beats and sugary melodies from Irish producer Iglooghost, courtesy of Brainfeeder.
Sky Trails
BMG / BMG
The folk-rock icon continues his late-career renaissance on this jazzy follow-up to 2016's Lighthouse.
Our Point of View
Blue Note
A highly engaging, forward-looking jazz supergroup celebrates Blue Note's 75th Anniversary.
Fight Fire: The Complete Recordings 1964-1967
Craft Recordings / Fantasy / Universal
Before Creedence Clearwater Revival, John Fogerty and crew were a tough and tunfeul garage rock band that is well worth discovering.
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Let's Play Two [Live at Wrigley Field]
Republic / Virgin EMI
Highlights from a two-night residency at Wrigley Field, home of Eddie Vedder's beloved Chicago Cubs.
The Desaturating Seven
ATO
Quirky, exploratory prog-funk concept album based on an Italian children's book about color-eating goblins.
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Core [25th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition] [4 CD/1 DVD/1 LP]
Rhino
The band celebrates its debut with a reissue featuring demos, live performances, and an excellent Unplugged session.
Visions of a Life
RCA
The band explores the wider -- and sometimes wilder -- possibilities of their music following their Grammy-nominated debut.
Three Futures
4AD
The singer/songwriter's third album is a celebration of the body that delivers some of her most fascinating and moving music.
Destroyers of the Soft Life
ATO
The Virginia quartet play to the back of the room on their rousing, melodic fourth effort.
This Sweet Old World
Highway 20 Records / Thirty Tigers
The singer and songwriter revisits the songs from her 1992 album Sweet Old World with mixed results.
Is Alive & Well & Living in Buenos Aires: Heavy Frenz the Solo Anthology 2001-2017
Cherry Red
An exhaustive dissection of the ex-Auteurs, Black Box Recorder, and Baader Meinhof mastermind's prolific solo career.
Tonight
Elefant
Sophisticated and a bit silly Italian combo goes full disco -- successfully -- on its third album.
Black to Blues
Mascot
Kentucky's favorite hard-rocking sons pay tribute to the original electric blues masters and the '70s rock bands they're inspired by.
Loney Dear
Real World Records
A more spatial electronic-oriented production approach marks the Swede's sixth effort.
Live at Pompeii
Columbia
The soundtrack to the guitarist's film of the same name boasts a bountiful, energetic performance of classic and contemporary material with few missteps.
Wilder Shores
Spirit Voyage Music
After a ten-year gap, the Go-Go's frontwoman returns with an acoustic pop adaptation of Buddhist chants and mantras.
Inside a Dream
Warner Bros.
Seven-song EP that provides a stepping stone from the band's early guitar-based sound to its synth pop phase.
New Moody Judy
Wharf Cat Records
The band's second album delivers another combustive mix of garage, punk, stoner rock, and psych-rock.
Happy Accidents
Elektra
The English singer/songwriter's sophomore major-label effort is balanced, vibrant, and ultimately more satisfying than its predecessor.
Johnny Mathis Sings the Great New American Songbook
Columbia / Sony Music
The legendary crooner takes on 11 radio hits from the late '90s and early 2000s.
Scream
Epic / Legacy / Sony Music
A trivializing seasonal compilation featuring the likes of "Thriller," "Torture," "Blood on the Dance Floor," and a new mash-up.
Art Pepper Presents West Coast Sessions, Vol. 5: Jack Sheldon
Omnivore
The fifth volume in this stellar reissue series pairs the great saxophonist with longtime collaborator and friend trumpeter Jack Sheldon.
Art Pepper Presents West Coast Sessions, Vol. 6: Shelly Manne
Omnivore
The West Coast jazz icon pairs with fellow California legend drummer Shelly Manne and others on this swinging Atlas reissue.
Always Foreign
Epitaph
The Connecticut-based indie rockers nix the mostly positive vibes of their two prior outings in favor of a deep dive into miseries both internal and external.
Experimental Music
Dischord Records / Radical Elite
A larger than usual edition of Ian Svenonius' band delivers a good groove and prompts the frontman to bring the fire.
The Great Distraction
Different / Different Recordings
All but abandoning guitars, British group Vessels explore surging, euphoric electronic dance music on their fourth proper album.
Franz Peter Schubert: Schwanengesang
Soundset
Kayleen Sánchez and Johnandrew Slominski give a historically informed performance of Schubert's posthumous song cycle, Schwanengesang.
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5; Barber: Adagio
Reference Recordings
Manfred Honeck leads the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra in Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony and Barber's Adagio for strings.
Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto; Symphony No. 5
Harmonia Mundi
Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E minor receives a provocative treatment in this 2017 Harmonia Mundi release by Isabelle Faust.
Beethoven: Piano Sonatas No. 3, No. 14 "Moonlight", No. 23 "Appassionata", No. 26 "Les Adieux", No. 32; 32 Variations in C minor
Deutsche Grammophon
Evgeny Kissin delivers live performances of Beethoven piano sonatas and variations with rare insights and technical brilliance.
Franz Schubert: Piano Sonatas D 959 & D 960
Deutsche Grammophon
Using a custom keyboard, Krystian Zimerman gives Schubert's last two piano sonatas unique and innovative interpretations.
Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2; Études-tableaux, Op. 33
Naxos
Boris Giltburg joins Carlo Miguel Prieto and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra in popular works by Sergey Rachmaninov.