The White Stripes

The White Stripes Greatest Hits

Third Man Records

Pop/Rock

The band's best-of is a lively portrait of their raw, arty reinvention of rock.

— Heather Phares

Arctic Monkeys

Arctic Monkeys: Live at the Royal Albert Hall

Domino

Pop/Rock

Arctic Monkeys' wickedly enthusiastic concert album with proceeds benefitting the War Child charity organization.

— Matt Collar

Shawn Mendes

Wonder

Island

Pop/Rock

Shawn Mendes enters his twenties with a diverse, playful, and heartfelt album.

— Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Deafheaven

10 Years Gone

Sargent House

Pop/Rock

Recorded live in studio, this incendiary eight-song set of catalog material is a pandemic-dictated celebration of the band's tenth anniversary.

— Thom Jurek

Joan of Arc

Tim Melina Theo Bobby

Joyful Noise

Pop/Rock

The farewell album from these long-running art rockers takes their ever-shifting sound in a decidedly more electronic direction.

— Fred Thomas

The Reds, Pinks & Purples

You Might Be Happy Someday

Tough Love

Pop/Rock

Classic indie pop sounds -- Sarah Records circa 1993 -- home-cooked with care by Glenn Donaldson of Skygreen Leopards.

— Tim Sendra

Yungblud

Weird!

Geffen

Pop/Rock

Bold hybrid of bubblegum pop, hip-hop bravado, and punk energy from the misfit English singer/songwriter.

— Neil Z. Yeung

Khruangbin

Late Night Tales: Khruangbin

LateNightTales

Pop/Rock, International, R&B, Easy Listening

The globe-trotting Texan trio present some choice finds from their extensive travels, as well as tracks by a few hometown friends and acquaintances.

— Paul Simpson

Trees

Trees

Earth / Earth Music / Earth Recordings

Pop/Rock, Folk

This completist box set by the U.K. folk-rock cult favorites reveals their psychedelic grandeur and unpredictability in equal measure.

— Timothy Monger

Mudhoney

Real Low Vibe: Reprise Recordings 1992-1998

Cherry Red

Pop/Rock

Practically everything from the grunge trailblazers' major-label era, with rough rarities to satisfy any fan.

— Mark Deming

Com Truise

In Decay, Too

Ghostly International

Electronic

A second collection of early rarities from Seth Haley demonstrating his range a bit more than some of his other releases.

— Paul Simpson

Cat Stevens / Yusuf

Tea for the Tillerman [Super Deluxe Edition 5CD/Blu-Ray/LP/EP Box Set]

A&M / Cat-O-Log Records / Island

Pop/Rock

The singer/songwriter's American pop breakthrough, combining catchy melodies with themes of spiritual fulfillment.

— Paul Simpson

Little Richard

Southern Child

Omnivore

R&B, Pop/Rock

An unreleased country-funk exercise from 1972 that's one of Little Richard's most distinctive records.

— Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Lavender Diamond

Now Is the Time

Petaluma Records

Pop/Rock

The trio ends an eight-year hiatus with hopeful, creative pop that calls for peace, love, and understanding.

— Heather Phares

Half Japanese

Crazy Hearts

Fire Records

Pop/Rock

Jad Fair sings of monster movies and unshakable optimism in one of the most joyous and accessible albums of his life.

— Mark Deming

Quarter-Life Crisis

Quarter-Life Crisis

Saddle Creek Records

Pop/Rock

Producer Ryan Hemsworth exits the dancefloor for daydreamy indie territory on a set of collaborations (Frances Quinlan, Hand Habits, Claud).

— Marcy Donelson

Late Night Final

A Wonderful Hope

Bella Union

Electronic

Steadily paced ambient techno epics produced by Public Service Broadcasting founder J. Willgoose during lockdown.

— Paul Simpson

Lee Ritenour

Dreamcatcher

The Players Club

Easy Listening, Jazz, Pop/Rock

The fretboard virtuoso's first-ever album of solo guitar is a relaxing, stylistically inspired showcase.

— Matt Collar

CUTS

UNREAL

Village Green

Pop/Rock, Electronic

Recorded mainly during lockdown, the project's second full-length is a reaction to pandemic life, disinformation, and global crises.

— Paul Simpson

Son Lux

Tomorrows II

City Slang

Pop/Rock

The foreboding second installment of the trilogy takes a hushed, introspective turn.

— Marcy Donelson

Robbie Basho

Song of the Avatars: The Lost Master Tapes

Tompkins Square

Folk, International

This five-disc box contains 54 tracks of wholly unreleased material from the guitarist's private, long-hidden, 100-reel-plus archive.

— Thom Jurek

Hervé Niquet / Le Concert Spirituel Orchestra & Chorus

Grétry: Richard Coeur de Lion

Château de Versailles

Classical

A delightful revival of a forgotten comic-historical opera that influenced Beethoven.

— James Manheim

Justin Doyle / Akademie für Alte Musik, Berlin / Julia Doyle / Thomas Hobbs / Tim Mead / Roderick Williams

Handel: Messiah

PentaTone Classics

Classical

A highly appealing Messiah with strong soloists and a well-defined sense of the text from the RIAS Kammerchor

— James Manheim

King's College Choir of Cambridge / Stephen Cleobury / Academy of St. Martin in the Fields

Bruckner: Mass in E minor; Motets

King's College Choir

Classical

Version of the Bruckner E minor mass with boy sopranos has a silvery, lyrical quality.

— James Manheim

Fatma Said

El Nour

Warner Classics

Classical

Utterly distinctive recital exploring the deep Arab traces in European song, and then inflecting Egyptian songs back toward the West.

— James Manheim

New College Choir, Oxford / Robert Quinney

John Sheppard: Media Vita

Linn Records

Classical

Impressive, authentic-feeling recording of little-recorded early Renaissance composer John Sheppard.

— James Manheim

François-Xavier Roth / London Symphony Orchestra

Debussy: La mer; Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune; Ravel: Rapsodie espagnole

LSO Live

Classical

Exquisitely delicate readings of French standards from the LSO and Debussy specialist Roth.

— James Manheim

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