Featured New Album Releases

Tom Petty

Wildflowers & All the Rest

Warner Bros. / Warner Music / Warner Records

Pop/Rock

Tom Petty's warm, stripped-down 1994 classic gets an expanded reissue with unreleased songs, demos, and live recordings.

— Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Sturgill Simpson

Cuttin' Grass, Vol. 1: The Butcher Shoppe Sessions

High Top Mountain

Country, Folk

A rousing, joyous collection of bluegrass renditions of Sturgill Simpson's old songs.

— Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Matt Berninger

Serpentine Prison

Book Records / Concord

Pop/Rock

A world-weary, ruminative solo debut from the leader of the National.

— Marcy Donelson

Beabadoobee

Fake It Flowers

Dirty Hit

Pop/Rock

The singer/songwriter's debut album updates the legacy of outspoken '90s female artists with heartfelt songwriting and a genre-blurring sound.

— Heather Phares

Aluna

Renaissance

Mad Decent

Electronic

Signed to Diplo's label, one-half of AlunaGeorge takes complete control on her gratifying, wide-ranging solo debut.

— Andy Kellman

Kevin Morby

Sundowner

Dead Oceans

Pop/Rock

Following an ambitious and sometimes overwhelming double album, the indie songwriter offers a gentle comedown with this set of restrained twilight moods.

— Fred Thomas

Seaway

Big Vibe

Pure Noise

Pop/Rock

The Canadian punk-pop band embrace big power pop choruses on their transformational fourth album.

— Matt Collar

Eagles

Live from the Forum MMXVIII

Rhino

Pop/Rock

A document of the Eagles' three-night stint in Los Angeles in 2018, reuniting after the death of Glenn Frey.

— Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Tommy Lee

Andro

Better Noise

Pop/Rock

On his first solo album in 15 years, Mötley Crüe's drummer acts as producer, applying his energetic personality to abrasive rap, EDM, and R&B styles.

— Fred Thomas

Joey Molland

Be True to Yourself

Omnivore

Pop/Rock

Collaborating with producer Mark Hudson, the Badfinger guitarist makes a warm, welcoming coda to his power pop career.

— Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Katie Melua

Album No. 8

BGU / BMG

Pop/Rock

The Georgian-born British singer returns with her most personal and artfully experimental album to date.

— Matt Collar

Annie

Dark Hearts

Annie Melody

Pop/Rock

A deeply melancholy, sadly nostalgic return from the Norwegian singer.

— Tim Sendra

Autechre

SIGN

Warp

Electronic

Autechre step back from their excessive 2010s output with a more reflective, ambient-leaning full-length.

— Paul Simpson

Zazou Bikaye

Mr. Manager

Crammed Discs

International, Electronic

A fearless Afro-European art-pop gem from 1985 gets a generous reissue with ample bonus tracks.

— Timothy Monger

Sam Roberts / Sam Roberts Band

All of Us

Known Accomplice / Universal

Pop/Rock

The Canadian outfit's seventh album of uplifting, groove-oriented rock and folky pop.

— Matt Collar

Various Artists

Blue Note Re:Imagined

Blue Note

Jazz, Electronic

This double-disc set showcases artists from the British jazz revival recontextualizing -- sometimes radically -- tunes from Blue Note's catalog.

— Thom Jurek

Woodkid

S16

Caroline

Electronic, Pop/Rock

Yoann Lemoine's first album in seven years pitches an epic battle between toughness and vulnerability on songs that sound like miniature symphonies.

— Heather Phares

Optic Sink

Goner Records

Pop/Rock

The debut release by the dystopian minimal synth project of Natalie Hoffmann, co-founder of Memphis garage punks NOTS.

— Paul Simpson

Kölsch

Now Here No Where

Kompakt

Electronic

Kölsch's fourth album for Kompakt is his most refined and rewarding set of exquisitely orchestrated techno to date.

— Paul Simpson

Holy Motors

Horse

Wharf Cat Records

Pop/Rock

The Estonian group lean into their gifts for atmospheric twang on this beautifully faded set of songs.

— Heather Phares

Goldmund

The Time It Takes

Western Vinyl Records

Avant-Garde, Folk

Themes of memory and nostalgia intertwine with an expanded sonic depth on the eighth album from this ambient piano project.

— Fred Thomas

Helena Deland

Someone New

Luminelle Recordings

Pop/Rock

A strange and hypnotic full-length debut from an intriguing indie singer/songwriter based in Montreal.

— Marcy Donelson

The Struts

Strange Days

Interscope / Polydor

Pop/Rock

As per usual, the Struts pair huge commercial pop aspirations with the swagger of Faces, but this time around it sounds like it was their idea.

— James Christopher Monger

Jeremy Ivey

Waiting Out the Storm

Anti-

Country, Pop/Rock

With wife Margo Price again producing, Ivey serves up a strong sonic successor to his debut that wades amiably into the weeds of politics and society.

— Timothy Monger