Poppy

I Disagree

Sumerian Records

Pop/Rock

On her empowering third LP, the subversive pop star finds her own voice with a brash metal makeover.

— Neil Z. Yeung

Selena Gomez

Rare

Interscope / Polydor

Pop/Rock

The resilient singer's sixth album features her first number one single and a batch of empowering, honest, and fun pop songs.

— Tim Sendra

Field Music

Making a New World

Memphis Industries

Pop/Rock

A surprisingly engaging art-pop concept album exploring the years following the First World War.

— Timothy Monger

Georgia

Seeking Thrills

Domino

Pop/Rock, Electronic

The London native encapsulates everything that made her fall in love with dance music on her electrifying second full-length.

— Paul Simpson

Various Artists

Killing Eve: Season One [Original Series Soundtrack]

Heavenly

Stage & Screen

With music by Unloved, the Troggs, and Brigitte Bardot, the soundtrack to the cult favorite TV show's first season creates a seductive, volatile world.

— Heather Phares

Various Artists

Killing Eve: Season Two [Original Series Soundtrack]

Heavenly

Stage & Screen

The soundtrack to the acclaimed TV series' second season digs deeper, emotionally as well as musically.

— Heather Phares

Beach Slang

The Deadbeat Bang of Heartbreak City

Bridge 9 Records / Bridge Nine Records

Pop/Rock

The third album from this earnest rock band pushes their Replacements worship over the line.

— Fred Thomas

Echosmith

Lonely Generation

Echosmith

Pop/Rock

The California sibling outfit returns with their sophomore full-length album of hooky, '80s-inspired pop.

— Matt Collar

Pop. 1280

Way Station

Weyrd Son

Pop/Rock

Keyboards and electronics add more polish to this doomstruck Brooklyn band, but the music is as uncompromised as ever.

— Mark Deming

Sore Eros

Sore Eros

Feeding Tube Records

Pop/Rock

Unpredictable yet cohesive, the pastoral psych outfit's first album in five years was engineered and produced by the War on Drugs' Adam Granduciel.

— Marcy Donelson

The Just Joans

The Private Memoirs and Confessions of the Just Joans

Fika Recordings

Pop/Rock

Balancing the sweet and acerbic, the Glaswegian sextet deliver another set of consistently catchy post-twee indie pop.

— Marcy Donelson

Berlin RIAS Chamber Choir / Justin Doyle / Akademie für Alte Musik, Berlin

Haydn: Missa Cellensis in honorem Beatissimae Virginis Mariæ

Harmonia Mundi

Classical

Seldom heard, Haydn's Missa Cellensis receives a historically informed reading by Justin Doyle and the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin.

— Blair Sanderson

Polyphony / Stephen Layton

Karl Jenkins: Miserere - Songs of Mercy and Redemption

Decca

Classical

A release observing Jenkins' 75th birthday mostly follows tried-and-true patterns.

— James Manheim

Various Artists

Zosha di Castri: Tachitipo

New Focus / New Focus Recordings

Avant-Garde, Classical

Virtuoso chamber works, with and without electronics, that cultivate virtuoso textures and a sense of surprise.

— James Manheim

Wolf Trap Opera Company / Inscape / Joseph Li

Philip Glass: The Fall of the House of Usher

Orange Mountain Music

Classical, Avant-Garde

A fine revival of a 1987 Glass opera that, in many ways, anticipates his later work.

— James Manheim

Jun Märkl / Malmö Symphony Orchestra

Saint-Saëns: Ascanio - Ballet

Naxos

Classical

Delightfully melodic proto-neo-Baroque music by Saint-Saëns gets sensitive performances here.

— James Manheim

Jakub Józef Orliński

Facce d'Amore

Erato

Classical

Charismatic young countertenor Orlinski takes on unusual secular repertory in his sophomore release.

— James Manheim

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