Bob Dylan

More Blood, More Tracks: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 14

Columbia Records / Legacy / Sony CMG / Sony Music

Pop/Rock

This 87-track deluxe box offers a complete, truly revelatory portrait of one of the songwriter’s most enigmatic albums.

— Thom Jurek

Pistol Annies

Interstate Gospel

RCA

Country

Pistol Annies return from a hiatus with a fully realized, resonant record that's their best to date.

— Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Marianne Faithfull

Negative Capability

BMG / Panta Rei

Pop/Rock, Vocal

The veteran chanteuse once again opens her heart and her soul in song, and includes a new interpretation of "As Tears Go By."

— Mark Deming

Rosanne Cash

She Remembers Everything

Blue Note

Pop/Rock, Folk, Country

A rich and rewarding collection of songs that speaks to the singer and songwriter's talent, passion, and maturity.

— Mark Deming

Barbra Streisand

Walls

Columbia / Sony CMG / Sony Music

Vocal, Pop/Rock

A heartfelt, lushly produced album showcasing Streisand's rich vocals and deep concerns for the state of the world.

— Matt Collar

Dead Can Dance

Dionysus

PIAS

Pop/Rock

The esteemed Aussie art pop duo delivers a bacchanalian oratorio inspired by the Greek god of wine and ecstasy.

— James Christopher Monger

Imogen Heap

The Music of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Parts One and Two in Four Contemporary Suites

Classical / Masterworks

Stage & Screen, Classical, Pop/Rock

In her reworked score from the hit stage play, Heap captures the magical spirit of the Harry Potter world with a distinctive, partly electronic palette.

— Marcy Donelson

Sun Kil Moon

This Is My Dinner

Caldo Verde Records

Pop/Rock

Mark Kozelek rambles on about touring Scandinavia and pays tribute to David Cassidy on Sun Kil Moon's 11th album.

— Paul Simpson

Charles Mingus

Jazz in Detroit / Strata Concert Gallery / 46 Seldon

BBE

Jazz

A long-lost -- and necessary -- document of the great bassist's 1973 Detroit residency.

— Thom Jurek

Tenacious D

Post-Apocalypto

Columbia / Sony Music

Pop/Rock

A scattershot soundtrack to Tenacious D's animated Internet series.

— Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Stove

's Favorite Friend

Exploding in Sound

Pop/Rock

Ovlov's Steve Harlett's second record as Stove is his first with a band, and it's emotionally charged, sonically thrilling indie rock at its finest.

— Tim Sendra

The Ocean

Phanerozoic I: Palaeozoic

Pelagic

Pop/Rock

After more than a decade, the German extreme music collective circles back to deliver a punishing but beautiful sequel to 2007's Precambrian.

— Thom Jurek

JD McPherson

Socks

New West

Holiday

The Oklahoma-born singer's first album of wry, rockin' holiday music.

— Matt Collar

Rodney Crowell

Christmas Everywhere

New West

Country, Holiday, Pop/Rock

The country singer/songwriter delivers a sometimes funny, sometimes bittersweet set of Yuletide tunes.

— Mark Deming

Rosalía

El Mal Querer

Sony Music

Latin

The Barcelona-based singer, songwriter, and actress delivers her sophomore outing that weds flamenco and copla to R&B and urban pop.

— Thom Jurek

Charlie Haden / Brad Mehldau

Long Ago and Far Away

Impulse! / Universal

Jazz

Intimate, deeply lyrical duo performance from the pianist and bassist recorded in Germany in 2007.

— Matt Collar

The Mavericks

Hey! Merry Christmas!

Mono Mundo Recordings

Country, Holiday, Pop/Rock

Plenty of fun and a little bit of sentimentality as the retro-Latin-pop-roots combo gets happy for the holiday season.

— Mark Deming

Andrew Cyrille / Bill Frisell / Wadada Leo Smith

Lebroba

ECM

Jazz

On his sophomore date for ECM, the rhythm explorer engages Bill Frisell and Wadada Leo Smith in a classy, elegant exercise in musical magic-making.

— Thom Jurek

Eagles

Legacy

Elektra / Rhino

Pop/Rock

A handsome, attractive box set containing everything the Eagles ever released.

— Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Kelly Moran

Ultraviolet

Warp

Avant-Garde, Electronic, Classical

Composer Kelly Moran presents a vibrant album of prepared piano improvisations augmented with ambient electronics.

— Paul Simpson

Beacon

Gravity Pairs

Ghostly International

Electronic

The Brooklyn duo's third album for Ghostly International is their most expressive, rhythmically diverse set of wounded love songs yet.

— Andy Kellman

Bill Ryder-Jones

Yawn

Domino

Pop/Rock

A slow-moving and deeply reflective set of rainy day jangle pop punctuated by stormy textures and tones.

— Timothy Monger

Orchestra of Spheres

Mirror

Fire Records

Pop/Rock

Ambitious fourth full-length from New Zealand's Orchestra of Spheres, adding a greater spiritual energy to their eclectic, celebratory rhythms.

— Paul Simpson

The Prodigy

No Tourists

BMG

Electronic

On their seventh set, the U.K. electronic bad boys deliver another high-octane set of rave-punk thrills.

— Neil Z. Yeung

Thought Gang

Thought Gang

Sacred Bones

Avant-Garde, Jazz

The long-lost '90s collaboration between David Lynch and Angelo Badalamenti finally sees the light of day on their self-titled debut record.

— Bekki Bemrose

Heaters

Suspended Youth

Beyond Beyond Is Beyond

Pop/Rock

Michigan-bred psych quartet add a dose of jangly post-punk to their Krautrock-influenced sound on their fifth full-length.

— Paul Simpson

Ian William Craig

Thresholder

130701 / Fat Cat / FatCat Records

Avant-Garde, Electronic

Weightless, nebulous collection of previously unreleased pieces recorded by Ian William Craig in between A Turn of Breath and Centres.

— Paul Simpson

Etienne Jaumet

8 Regards Obliques

Versatile

Electronic

The Zombie Zombie member's entertaining third solo album combines his synth wizardry and his lifelong love of jazz.

— Heather Phares

Christian Kjellvander

Wild Hxmans

Tapete Records

Pop/Rock

The singer/songwriter crafts a subtly more epic, ominous sound on his eighth studio album.

— Marcy Donelson

audiobooks

Now! (In a Minute)

Heavenly

Pop/Rock

Producer/engineer David Wrench and visual artist/vocalist Evangeline Ling make droll, improvisational art-pop with modular synths.

— Marcy Donelson

Surfbort

Friendship Music

Cult Records / Fat Possum Records

Pop/Rock

Brooklyn's punk provocateurs let rip on the big issues for their debut record.

— Bekki Bemrose

Moonface

This One's for the Dancer & This One's for the Dancer's Bouquet

Jagjaguwar

Pop/Rock

Spencer Krug brings down the curtain on Moonface with a grand-scale album assembled from two unfinished projects.

— Mark Deming

Scott Bradlee / Scott Bradlee's Postmodern Jukebox

The Essentials II

Concord

R&B, Jazz, Pop/Rock

The genre-bending cover band's second collection of songs culled from its popular online video series.

— Matt Collar

PAINT

Paint

Mexican Summer

Pop/Rock

Tones of West Coast psych, garage, and lounge from Allah-Las guitarist Pedrum Siadatian.

— Timothy Monger

Guttersnipe

My Mother the Vent

Upset the Rhythm

Pop/Rock

Chaotic yet remarkably focused debut full-length from electro-shocked noise rock duo Guttersnipe.

— Paul Simpson

Fabien Gabel / Orchestre Symphonique de Québec

Gaîté Parisienne: Ravel, Poulenc, Offenbach

ATMA Classique

Classical

Fabien Gabel and the Orchestre Symphonique de Québec present a brilliant showcase of works by Offenbach, Ravel, and Poulenc.

— Blair Sanderson

Leslie Howard

Liszt: New Discoveries, Vol. 4

Hyperion

Classical

Leslie Howard's extensive and authoritative series of Liszt's piano works has become exhaustive with this series of miscellanea.

— Blair Sanderson

Bryn Terfel

Dreams and Songs

Deutsche Grammophon

Classical, Stage & Screen

Terfel's first solo release since 2013 offers comfortable takes on popular and folk standards.

— James Manheim

Nikolai Lugansky

Debussy: Suite bergamasque - Works for solo piano

Harmonia Mundi

Classical

Nikolai Lugansky presents a selection of Debussy's best-loved piano pieces on this 2018 centenary release from Harmonia Mundi.

— Blair Sanderson

Olivier Charlier / Jean-Christophe Gayot

Igor Stravinsky: L'Histoire du Soldat [CD & Book]

Harmonia Mundi

Classical

Stravinsky's L'Histoire du soldat receives a straightforward reading in French in this 2018 release from Harmonia Mundi.

— Blair Sanderson

Hilary Hahn

Hilary Hahn Plays Bach: Sonatas 1 & 2; Partita 1

Decca

Classical

Hahn returns to Bach's solo sonatas and partitas, 21 years after beginning her recording career with them, and triumphs.

— James Manheim

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