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July 31, 2020
Such Pretty Forks in the Road
Epiphany Records
An album-length meditation about finding contentment in middle age.
Made of Rain
Cooking Vinyl
The new wave icons' first album in decades is an impressively huge-sounding modern rock record bolstered by Richard Butler's timeless vocals.
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Flaming Pie [Deluxe Edition]
Capitol / Universal
An archival edition features demos, B-sides, an audio documentary, and excerpts from McCartney's offbeat radio show.
Indistinct Conversations
Saddle Creek Records
The project's fourth album delves into healing and acceptance with subtly confident, sneakily catchy songs.
Music From First Cow
Merge
Tyler's humble playing and rustic minimalism create a lovely backdrop to Kelly Reichardt's poignant frontier film.
Hum
Ipecac
The masterful third solo outing by the guitarist, producer, and songwriter reflects deeply on loss, acceptance, and rebirth.
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The Delta Sweete [Deluxe Edition]
Capitol / Universal
The singer/songwriter designed her second album as a quasi-autobiographical portrait of the American South that's in turn beguiling and spooky.
Brain Candy
BMG
Third album from the Australian garage/pop duo is more sophisticated and mature, but not enough to spoil all the fun.
Home
Ninja Tune
The left-field house producer focuses on identity with his first full-length since moving out to the English countryside.
Articulation
Erased Tapes Records
Conceptualized through graphic scores and drawings, Ryan Lee West's sixth album matches intuition with precision.
Sucker's Lunch
Carpark Records
With Wye Oak co-producing, the indie songwriter delivers a set of hazy love songs underscored by uncertainty.
Long Lost Solace Find
Paradise of Bachelors
The solo debut from the leader of the abrasive Purling Hiss is a stunning turn towards gentle acoustic beauty and understated arrangements.
Caravan Château
Domino / Weird World
The Los Angeles singer/songwriter delves deeper into the trippy, intimate chamber pop he established on 2016's Harlequin.
Connect
Gearbox
A rare small-group date from the trumpeter and his first studio album since 2007's Grammy-nominated With Love.
Sex, Death & the Infinite Void
Roadrunner / Roadrunner Records
A master class in goth-punk camp directed by a clutch of vampires masquerading as musical theater majors.
A Hero's Death
Partisan
A more modest record, relatively speaking, that finds the band reflecting on themselves and the shadow cast by their debut.
Just Look at That Sky
Felte
The Chicago quartet expand on their gloomy post-punk sound with various chaotic stylistic approaches and expanded instrumentation.
Træns
Running Back
Prins Thomas explores the common ground between his trademark space disco and euphoric trance.
Let's Skip to the Wedding
Lex / Lex Records
The latest collection from this lo-fi songwriter goes all over the place stylistically but is glued together by themes of tenderness and lovestruck romanticism.
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio Espagnol, Op. 34; Russian Easter Festival Overture, Op. 36; Scheherazade, Op. 35
Lawo Classics
Workmanlike in the best sense, Petrenko's collection offers solid readings of Rimsky-Korsakov favorites.
All Things Common: Music of Tarik O'Regan
Yarlung Records
Beautifully performed choral collection that gives an idea of the variety in O'Regan's music.
In Chains of Gold: The English Pre-Restoration Verse Anthem, Vol. 2 – William Byrd to Edmund Hooper, Psalms and Royal Anthems
Signum Classics
A vivid, beautifully balanced performance of works in the neglected genre of the English verse anthem.
Lisa Batiashvili / Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra / Georgian Philharmonic Orchestra / Nikoloz Rachveli
City Lights
Deutsche Grammophon
An innovative crossover release with unusual material on a theme of cities and their music.
Komitas: Divine Liturgy
Delos
A new "concert version" of a sacred work by the priest-composer Komitas that holds great significance for Armenians.
Romantique
Warner Classics
Superb wind chamber music rediscoveries by a group specializing in neglected wind music.