Featured New Releases for
December 4, 2020

Wonder

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

— Stephen Thomas Erlewine

10 Years Gone

Sargent House
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

Weird!

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

— Neil Z. Yeung

Trees

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

— Timothy Monger

In Decay, Too

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

— Paul Simpson

Crazy Hearts

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

— Mark Deming

UNREAL

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

— Paul Simpson

Tomorrows II

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

— Marcy Donelson

El Nour

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

— James Manheim

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