Coldplay

Everyday Life

Atlantic / Parlophone

Pop/Rock

This globe-trotting double album finds the band confronting society's ills with optimism and hope.

— Neil Z. Yeung

Beck

Hyperspace

Capitol / Virgin EMI

Pop/Rock

A sleek, synthesized collaboration with Pharrell Williams that's surprisingly introspective.

— Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Leonard Cohen

Thanks for the Dance

Columbia / Legacy / Sony Music

Pop/Rock, Folk

Nine songs from the poet's final recording sessions reveal, against all odds, he was singing better than ever before.

— Mark Deming

Jimi Hendrix

Songs for Groovy Children: The Fillmore East Concerts

Legacy / Sony Music

Pop/Rock

Finally, nearly 50 years after the shows took place, all four sets are available together, with perfect sound, for the first time.

— Sean Westergaard

Jason Aldean

9

Broken Bow

Country

Jason Aldean stays in his lane on his ninth album.

— Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / Rod Stewart

You're in My Heart: Rod Stewart with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Rhino / WEA

Pop/Rock

Classic Rod hits are overdubbed with sentimental new orchestrations.

— Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Mary Lambert

Grief Creature

Tender Heart

Pop/Rock, Comedy/Spoken

Macklemore and Julien Baker guest on an intensely personal second album of adult pop and poetry that Lambert has called "a breakup album to shame."

— Marcy Donelson

Ben Lee

Quarter Century Classix

New West

Pop/Rock

A sweet, gentle reading of the Great Gen-X Songbook.

— Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Lindemann

F&M

Caroline / Spinefarm Records / Universal

Pop/Rock

Sophomore set from the industrial metal pair abandons their debut's camp in favor of theatrical, emotional depth.

— Neil Z. Yeung

The Pernice Brothers

Spread the Feeling

Ashmont Records

Pop/Rock

Indie pop combo is back after a nine-year layoff with an album that blends the bitter, the sweet, and the snarky.

— Mark Deming

Girl Ray

Girl

Moshi Moshi Records

Pop/Rock

The band turn away from haunting indie psych-folk to a slick and thoroughly modern left-field pop sound as made by their hero Ariana Grande.

— Tim Sendra

Grateful Dead

Ready or Not

Grateful Dead / Rhino

Pop/Rock

New songs introduced to live sets in the early '90s give a window into material the band was preparing for a 14th studio album.

— Fred Thomas

Harry Nilsson

Losst and Founnd

Omnivore

Pop/Rock

Nilsson's last songs are given a sharp polish by Mark Hudson, helping this posthumous collection feel like a real Nilsson album.

— Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Super Furry Animals

Guerrilla [20th Anniversary Edition]

BMG

Pop/Rock

Super Furry Animals play with electronics and go further out on their third album.

— Stephen Thomas Erlewine

The Chemical Brothers

Surrender [20th Anniversary Expanded Edition]

Astralwerks

Electronic

The third set from the big beat dance duo, which rode the success of their sophomore breakout with a similar formula.

— Neil Z. Yeung

Tim Buckley

Live at the Electric Theater Co, Chicago, 1968

Manifesto Records

Pop/Rock, Folk

An intuitive and improvisational set that will delight fans of the artist's melodic, jazz-infused journeys into the unknown.

— Mark Deming

Fleetwood Mac

Before the Beginning: Rare Live & Demo Sessions 1968-1970

Sony Music

Blues, Pop/Rock

This budget-priced, three-disc set captures the band at their raucous best in two apocryphal gigs during Peter Green's tenure.

— Thom Jurek

Omar Souleyman

Shlon

Because Music / Mad Decent

International

The exiled Syrian wedding singer returns to the wild, soulful energy of his earliest albums here.

— Thom Jurek

Benoît Pioulard

Sylva

Morr Music

Electronic

Inspired by his travels across the U.S., Pioulard celebrates nature's power to comfort and inspire with gliding ambient tracks and contemplative pop.

— Heather Phares

Various Artists

Thousands of Eyes in the Dark

Ghostly International

Electronic

The third full-length compilation of Ghostly International's long-running SMM series of ambient and experimental releases.

— Paul Simpson

Big Band of Brothers

A Jazz Celebration of the Allman Brothers Band

New West

Jazz, Blues

A swinging yet still earthy big band tribute to the legendary Southern rock band the Allman Brothers.

— Matt Collar

Carlos Niño

Bliss On Dear Oneness

Leaving Records

Electronic, New Age, Jazz

Improvised space collage music from the Los Angeles-based composer and contributors including Laraaji, Jamael Dean, and Ishmael Butler.

— Paul Simpson

Upset

Upset

Lauren Records

Pop/Rock

Second album by the grunge-punk revivalists ups the sonic power and broadens the songwriting scope.

— Tim Sendra

Coma

Voyage Voyage

City Slang

Electronic

The formerly Kompakt-signed duo return with their pop-minded, indie-friendly third full-length.

— Paul Simpson

Health&Beauty

Shame Engine/Blood Pleasure

Wichita

Pop/Rock

A sprawling, languid seventh album by Ryley Walker guitarist Brian J. Sulpizio's improvisational rock project.

— Marcy Donelson

Jaakko Eino Kalevi

Dissolution

Weird World

Pop/Rock

The Finnish producer/multi-instrumentalist moves from warm pop to icy space disco on this mini-album.

— Fred Thomas

Ban Hall / Mr. Ben & the Bens

Who Knows Jenny Jones

Bingo / Bingo Records

Pop/Rock

A decidedly quirky conceptual yarn from the Sheffield-based indie pop project of Ben Hall.

— Timothy Monger

Neuland

Neuland

Amplified Media Services

Avant-Garde, Pop/Rock, Electronic

Sprawling double album of dark ambient electronics from two former members of Tangerine Dream.

— Fred Thomas

Scott H. Biram

Sold Out to the Devil: A Collection of Gospel Cuts by the Rev. Scott H. Biram

Bloodshot

Pop/Rock

Ten gritty songs of sin and salvation from the catalog of the Dirty Old One Man Band, one previously unreleased.

— Mark Deming

Dead Horse One

The West is the Best

Requiem Pour un Twister

Pop/Rock

The French shoegaze combo's third outing is rooted in lush swelling dynamics and wistful guitar pop.

— Timothy Monger

Daniel Lozakovich / Stanislav Soloviev / National Philharmonic of Russia

None but the Lonely Heart

Deutsche Grammophon

Classical

Sensational Tchaikovsky performed by the young violinist Daniel Lozakovich.

— James Manheim

Michael Spyres / John Nelson

Hector Berlioz: Requiem (Grand Messe des Morts)

Erato

Classical

John Nelson leads combined choirs and the Philharmonia Orchestra in a resonant performance of Berlioz's Grande Messe des morts.

— Blair Sanderson

Dessoff Choirs / Malcolm J. Merriweather / Dessoff Orchestra / Ashley Jackson

Margaret Bonds: The Ballad of the Brown King & Selected Songs

Avie

Classical

A significant world premiere recording of a work African American composer Bonds considered her magnum opus.

— James Manheim

Blue Heron / Scott Metcalfe

Johannes Ockeghem: Complete Songs, Vol. 1

Blue Heron

Classical

Scott Metcalfe and Blue Heron present the first of a two-volume set of the complete chansons of Renaissance master Johannes Ockeghem.

— Blair Sanderson

Rinaldo Alessandrini / Concerto Italiano

Johann Bach: Ouvertures for Orchestra

Naïve

Classical

Orchestral suites by Johann Sebastian Bach and two of his second cousins receive period performances from Rinaldo Alessandrini and Concerto Italiano

— Blair Sanderson

Kenneth Hamilton

Kenneth Hamilton Plays Ronald Stevenson, Vol. 2

Prima Facie

Classical

The follow-up to Hamilton's internationally successful 2016 album of his teacher's music succeeds once again.

— James Manheim

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