Slipknot

We Are Not Your Kind

Roadrunner Records

Pop/Rock

The masked Iowans sixth full-length effort sees a confident and apoplectic Slipknot in full command of their craft.

— James Christopher Monger

Ra Ra Riot

Superbloom

Universal / Universal Music

Pop/Rock

The band's second album recorded with Rostam Batmanglij is an effusive production full of lyrical hooks that balances all of their broad musical influences.

— Matt Collar

Pete Yorn

Caretakers

Pop/Rock

Working with Jackson Phillips of Day Wave, Yorn adds dreamy synths to his sturdy songs.

— Stephen Thomas Erlewine

The Regrettes

How Do You Love?

Warner Records

Pop/Rock

The Regrettes sharpen their focus with a a song cycle about a love affair.

— Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Elvis Presley

Live 1969

Legacy / Sony Music

Pop/Rock

A hefty box containing 11 complete concerts from Presley's return to the stage in August 1969.

— Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Purple Pilgrims

Perfumed Earth

Flying Nun

Pop/Rock

The duo's ambitious second album is a divine union of the mystical and down-to-earth, the spiritual and the sensual.

— Heather Phares

G&D

Black Love & War

eOne

Rap

The third, funkiest, and most galvanizing duo LP from the prolific Georgia Anne Muldrow and Dudley Perkins.

— Andy Kellman

Tori Kelly

Inspired by True Events

Capitol / Virgin EMI

Pop/Rock, Religious

The singer draws upon her marriage, the divorce of her parents, and the death of her grandfather for a heartfelt album of lyrical, raw emotion.

— Matt Collar

The Wedding Present

Tommy 30

Scopitones

Pop/Rock

Thirty years later, David Gedge and company revisit their earliest songs, giving them a lively and much heavier sonic update.

— Tim Sendra

Marika Hackman

Any Human Friend

Sub Pop

Pop/Rock

The British nu-folk singer/songwriter embraces pop and makes no secret of her desires on her fourth album.

— Mark Deming

Electric Youth

Memory Emotion

Last Gang Records / Watts Arcade Inc.

Pop/Rock

The duo's first album in five years delivers dreamy synth pop with extra urgency and personality.

— Heather Phares

The Blind Boys of Alabama / Marc Cohn

Work to Do

BMG

Pop/Rock

Two years after contributing a song to their 2017 album Almost Home, singer/songwriter Marc Cohn offers up this collaborative album with legendary gospel group.

Zo!

FourFront

Foreign Exchange Music

R&B

Lorenzo Ferguson's fourth Foreign Exchange LP freshly refines his first three, featuring new collaborators Devin Morrison and Madison McFerrin.

— Andy Kellman

Wilder Woods

Wilder Woods

Atlantic

Pop/Rock, R&B

The Needtobreathe frontman makes his R&B-inspired solo debut as Wilder Woods.

— Timothy Monger

Strung Out

Songs of Armor and Devotion

Fat Wreck Chords

Pop/Rock

Blistering, intensely political ninth set from the California punks that brims with urgency and metal riffs.

— Neil Z. Yeung

Dennis Greunling / Dennis Gruenling / Nick Moss Band

Lucky Guy!

Alligator / Alligator Records

Blues

On their second pairing, Nick Moss Band and Dennis Gruenling deliver another set of brawny modern Chicago blues.

— Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Steve Goodman

Unfinished Business

Omnivore

Folk, Pop/Rock

Expanded reissue of unreleased live and studio material that earned the songwriter a Grammy three years after his death.

— Mark Deming

Steve Goodman

Santa Ana Winds

Omnivore

Folk, Pop/Rock, Country

Expanded reissue of the singer/songwriter's final album; sometimes rueful, but still a celebration of the joy of life and music.

— Mark Deming

Janie Fricke

It Ain't Easy: The Complete Hits

Real Gone Music

Country

All of Janie Fricke's chart-toppers of the 1970s and '80s are here on this double-disc set.

— Stephen Thomas Erlewine

P.P. Arnold

The New Adventures Of...

Ear Music

R&B

Expansive and fully energized return from the underappreciated pop-soul singer, produced with love by Ocean Colour Scene's Steve Cradock.

— Andy Kellman

Hugo Ticciati / O/Modernt

From the Ground Up: The Chaconne

Signum Classics

Classical

Good introduction to the thematic multi-genre presentations of Sweden's O/Modernt ensemble.

— James Manheim

Elysian Singers of London / Sam Laughton

MacMillan: One Equal Music

Signum Classics

Classical

A strong collection of recent MacMillan works that could work well as an introduction to his music.

— James Manheim

Stéphane Degout / Barbara Hannigan / George Benjamin / Samuel Boden

George Benjamin: Lessons in Love and Violence

Nimbus

Classical

An opera in the old style, even if its tonal language is modern: with passionate love, a deposed king, and court intrigue.

— James Manheim

Mark Elder / Hallé Orchestra

Wagner: Siegfried

Hallé

Classical

An orchestra's Siegfried rather than a star singer's, but entirely successful as such.

— James Manheim

Latvian Radio Choir / Sigvards Klava

Tchaikovsky: Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom; Nine Sacred Choruses

Ondine

Classical

Splendid performances of Tchaikovsky's relatively rare sacred music, in a spirit the composer would have loved.

— James Manheim

Thomas Dausgaard / BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra / Lunds Studentsångare

Sibelius: Kullervo

Hyperion

Classical

A momentum-oriented, exciting reading of Sibelius' early tone poem.

— James Manheim

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