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Releases for
July 5, 2019
Stonechild
Memphis Industries
Joining forces with producer John Parish and members of Lucius and This Is the Kit, Hoop offers up an exquisite set provoked by the day's politics.
Various Artists
1977: The Year Punk Broke
Cherry Red
Thrilling and well-compiled three-disc collection that rounds up the rough-and-ready sounds of early U.K. punk in all its many varieties and flavors.
The Soft Cavalry
Bella Union
The debut album from Slowdive's Rachel Goswell and her husband Steve Clarke is an impressionistic portrait of romantic and creative rebirth.
Psychedelic Backfire I
Rune Grammofon
The first of two sprawling, simultaneously issued live albums features the original trio revisiting their catalog with reckless abandon.
Psychedelic Backfire II
Rune Grammofon
The second of two sprawling live double-length albums adds Dungen guitarist Reine Fiske to the lineup, resulting in a powerful performance.
Fongola
Transgressive
Wildly inventive Congolese collective from Kinshasa whose artful lo-fi dance music is made largely on hand-built instruments created from junk.
Cut Your Teeth
Mint / Mint Records
The debut LP from this Canadian punk band is smart, funny, and rocks hard while never acting as if its feminist themes are a joke.
Roots and Branches: The Songs of Little Walter
Alligator / Alligator Records
A riotous tribute to Little Walter that doesn't play like a faithful homage.
Soundtrack to an Empty Room
In the Red Records
On his third solo LP, Charles Moothart finds new things to be angry about, and shows that his guitar can snarl with the best of them.
What's Going On?
Upset the Rhythm
Sonically daring second album from the British post-punk group, filled with unexpected tape splices and sprawling improvisations.
Vol. 3
Castle Face
This purposefully abrasive synth punk outing proves you don't need guitars to create a big wall of expressive noise.
Peace Planet/Box of Light
AUM Fidelity
With two bands comprised of longtime associates, the drummer and composer illustrates a union of free jazz players past and present.
Live/Shapeshifter
AUM Fidelity
Documenting two sets from a 2017 performance, this longstanding quartet offers a new suite and startling reads of catalog tunes.
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Samba de Flora [LP]
Soul Jazz
Moreira's ebullient Brazilian jazz fusion album from the storied Montuno Records label featuring the propulsively infectious title track.
The Juice, Vol. 1
Island
Promising debut EP from a secretively presented duo who make soft-hued, marginally left-of-center R&B.
Treasures of Devotion: European Spiritual Song ca. 1500
Music & Arts
The Boston Camerata returns with a collection of music from the dawn of the 16th century under new director Anne Azéma.
Si j'ai Aimé
Alpha
Sublime recording from Piau of French mélodies, familiar and new, with period instruments.
Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Op. 2 No. 1, Op. 14 No. 2, Op. 53 'Waldstein', Op. 54
Hyperion
This typical entry in Hewitt's Beethoven sonata series offers original readings in a mix of familiar and less well-known pieces.
Guy Johnston / Stephen Cleobury / Christopher Seaman / Britten Sinfonia / King's College Choir of Cambridge
Howells: Cello Concerto; An English Mass
King's College Choir
A valediction of Stephen Cleobury as director of the Choir of King's College, Cambridge; also a worthy Howells collection.
Perpetulum: Philip Glass, Gavin Bryars
Orange Mountain Music
Philip Glass continues to break new ground, here with Third Coast Percussion.
Palimpsest
Avie
Unique and fascinating transcriptions for clarinet and marimba by husband-and-wife team of Richard and Mika Stoltzman.