Lana Del Rey

Norman Fucking Rockwell!

Interscope / Polydor

Pop/Rock

Sixth album from this icon of sad pop is her most subtle and majestic yet.

— Fred Thomas

Tool

Fear Inoculum

RCA

Pop/Rock

Long-awaited LP finds the enigmatic prog-metal outfit older, wiser, and at the peak of their craft.

— Neil Z. Yeung

Bon Iver

I, I

Jagjaguwar

Pop/Rock

The fourth Bon Iver album finds Justin Vernon and an expanded cast combining indie folk and fractured electronics on an epic scale.

— Tim Sendra

Common

Let Love

Loma Vista

Rap

Uniquely openhearted set from the rapper, made with much of the same core heard on Black America Again and August Greene.

— Andy Kellman

Sheryl Crow

Threads

Valory

Pop/Rock, Country

Sheryl Crow takes stock of her musical career by collaborating with idols, peers, and a new generation of artists.

— Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Whitney

Forever Turned Around

Secretly Canadian

Pop/Rock

Returning with most of the crew from their breakthrough debut Light Upon the Lake, the follow-up delivers more of its dulcet country-rock.

— Marcy Donelson

Natasha Bedingfield

Roll With Me

We Are Hear Music

Pop/Rock

With the assistance of Linda Perry, Bedingfield revives her upscale aspirational Europop career.

— Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Various Artists

Country Music: A Film by Ken Burns [Original Soundtrack]

Legacy / Sony Music

Country

The soundtrack to the Ken Burns documentary series charts country music's history and shows why it matters to so many.

— Mark Deming

Joan Shelley

Like the River Loves the Sea

No Quarter

Pop/Rock, Country

Recorded in Iceland, the songwriter's fifth album is quiet but never fragile, and all the more powerful for its modesty.

— Mark Deming

Ezra Furman

Twelve Nudes

Bella Union

Pop/Rock

The follow-up to 2018's Transangelic Exodus, Furman and company deliver a savage, amp-melting set that's all teeth.

— James Christopher Monger

Bonnie "Prince" Billy / Bryce Dessner

When We Are Inhuman

37d03d

Pop/Rock

An evocative collaboration between Will Oldham, the National's Bryce Dessner, and the contemporary classical outfit Eighth Blackbird.

— Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Trisha Yearwood

Every Girl

Gwendolyn / Gwendolyn Records

Country

With her first recording of new material in 12 years, the singer delivers these 14 songs with an abundance of authority, emotion, and pure class.

— Thom Jurek

Velvet Negroni

Neon Brown

4AD

R&B

The project's haunting debut album delivers R&B at its moodiest and most experimental.

— Heather Phares

!!!

Wallop

Warp

Pop/Rock

The long-running group's eight album is a modern, less abrasive take on their brand of disco-meets-punk dance music.

— Tim Sendra

James Carter / James Carter Organ Trio

Live from Newport Jazz

Blue Note

Jazz

The Detroit saxophonist and his organ trio offer soul-jazz reworkings of Django Reinhardt songs on this ebullient live concert.

— Matt Collar

Black Belt Eagle Scout

At the Party with My Brown Friends

Saddle Creek Records

Pop/Rock

Portland's Katherine Paul eschews the tumult of her debut on this thoughtful and more musically robust follow-up.

— Timothy Monger

Boy Scouts

Free Company

Anti-

Pop/Rock

Decade-long D.I.Y. musician Taylor Vick's first collaborative and studio album clarifies her pastel-colored breakup songs without over-polishing.

— Marcy Donelson

Georgia Flipo / G Flip

About Us

Polydor

Pop/Rock

The singer/songwriter builds on their breakthrough single "About You" with big-hearted, full-throated pop.

— Heather Phares

Parsnip

When the Tree Bears Fruit

Trouble in Mind

Pop/Rock

The band's debut album is made up of gleeful indie pop delivered with childlike wonder and an unerring sense of melody.

— Tim Sendra

Snail Mail

Habit

Matador

Pop/Rock

This remastered edition of Lindsey Jordan's 2016 debut EP adds a cover of Lois Maffeo and Pat Maley's "The 2nd Most Beautiful Girl in the World."

— Marcy Donelson

Olivia Jean

Night Owl

Third Man Records

Pop/Rock

A clever, giddy blast of stylish garage pop.

— Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Jesse Malin

Sunset Kids

Wicked Cool

Pop/Rock

Malin collaborates with his friend Lucinda Williams on this appealingly relaxed record.

— Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Pharmakon

Devour

Sacred Bones

Avant-Garde

Margaret Chardiet interprets a vicious cycle of self-destruction with her fourth album as Pharmakon.

— Paul Simpson

Cabaret Voltaire

Chance Versus Causality

Mute

Electronic, Stage & Screen

Previously unissued soundtrack to a 1979 film by Babeth Mondini, improvised sight unseen by Cabaret Voltaire.

— Paul Simpson

Carter Tutti Void

Triumvirate

Conspiracy International

Electronic

The third and final report from Chris & Cosey's improvisational collaboration with Factory Floor's Nik Void.

— Paul Simpson

Salami Rose Joe Louis

Zdenka 2080

Brainfeeder

Electronic, Pop/Rock

The Bay Area experimental producer creates an insular world of sci-fi narratives and warm, warped electronic pop.

— Fred Thomas

Seeker Lover Keeper

Wild Seeds

Liberation

Pop/Rock

The Australian songwriting trio returns with a glowing, compassionate album of detailed, organically minded indie pop.

— Timothy Monger

YACHT

Chain Tripping

DFA

Pop/Rock

The seventh album from this usually extroverted electro-pop band takes a turn for colder, more detached dance sounds.

— Fred Thomas

Eliane Elias

Love Stories

Concord

International

A romantic set of ballads and standards with lush orchestration from Rob Mathes.

— Matt Collar

HTRK

Venus in Leo

Ghostly International

Pop/Rock

Australian duo HTRK's excellent fourth album contains their most romantic, sensuous material yet.

— Paul Simpson

Bodywash

Comforter

Luminelle Recordings

Pop/Rock

A dazzling debut from a Montreal band that merges dream pop, shoegaze, and trip-hop influences with noise experimentation.

— Marcy Donelson

Mikey Young

You Feelin' Me?

Castle Face

Pop/Rock, Electronic

A collection of home-recorded synth and guitar instrumentals that range from sparsely experimental to bubbling and melodic.

— Tim Sendra

MNNQNS

Body Negative

Fat Cat / FatCat Records

Pop/Rock

The French post-punk band's debut is rife with fierce grooves, invasive pop melodies, and textured blasts of noise.

— Timothy Monger

The Silence

Metaphysical Feedback

Drag City

Pop/Rock

On their fourth outing, Masaki Batoh's band integrates line-up changes to expand their compositional and musical palette.

— Thom Jurek

Wallace Roney

Blue Dawn-Blue Nights

HighNote Records

Jazz

The trumpeter collaborates with his younger band, as well as veteran drummer Lenny White, on this expansive set.

— Matt Collar

Alexander Rudin / Musica Viva Chamber Orchestra

Johann Stamitz: Symphonies, Op. 3 Nos. 1, 3, 4, 5 and 6

Naxos

Classical

Vigorous, big performances of symphonies by the elder Stamitz, evocative of what we know of the great orchestra at Mannheim.

— James Manheim

Clark Rundell / Asko / Schönberg / The Hilliard Ensemble

John Casken: The Dream of the Rood

NMC

Classical

Among the Hilliard Ensemble's last recordings, this features John Casken's setting of the medieval poem The Dream of the Rood.

— James Manheim

Bernhard Forck / Akademie für Alte Musik, Berlin

Handel: Concerti grossi Op. 6 (1-6)

PentaTone Classics

Classical

Lovely, detailed Handel from a veteran German early music group.

— James Manheim

Mary Bevan / Lucy Crowe / Bridget Cunningham / London Early Opera

Handel's Queens: Cuzzoni & Faustina

Signum Classics

Classical

The Baroque opera stars Faustina Bordoni and Francesca Cuzzoni are celebrated on this Signum Classics album of arias by Handel and others.

— Blair Sanderson

Black Oak Ensemble

Silenced Voices

Cedille Records

Classical

Works mostly by composers who died in the Holocaust, in rich performances.

— James Manheim

David Owen Norris / Caroline Balding / Katy Bircher / Andrew Skidmore

The Jupiter Project: Mozart, Hummel, Cramer, Clementi

Hyperion

Classical

Delightful, well-chosen chamber arrangements of Mozart's orchestral works.

— James Manheim

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