Taylor Swift

evermore [deluxe version]

Republic / Taylor Swift

Pop/Rock

On her swift sequel to Folklore, Taylor plays with an expanded musical and emotional palette.

— Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Sturgill Simpson

Cuttin' Grass, Vol. 2: The Cowboy Arms Sessions

High Top / High Top Mountain / Thirty Tigers

Country

Sturgill Simpson digs deeper into the vault for his second collection of bluegrass rearrangements of his catalog.

— Stephen Thomas Erlewine

The Avalanches

We Will Always Love You

Astralwerks

Electronic

The duo and hundreds of living and sampled collaborators head to space and give listeners something to cry and dance about.

— Andy Kellman

M. Ward

Think of Spring

Anti-

Pop/Rock

The Oregon tunesmith takes a stab at the great American songbook with a homespun tribute to the great Billie Holiday.

— James Christopher Monger

Kamasi Washington

Becoming

Young Turks

Jazz, Stage & Screen

The tenor saxophonist offers brevity, restraint, accessibility, and delight on his score for Nadia Hallgren's Michelle Obama documentary.

— Thom Jurek

The Kills

Little Bastards

Domino

Pop/Rock

Gathering rarities, B-sides, and covers from the duo's first decade, this collection spotlights what makes the Kills equally enduring and inventive.

— Heather Phares

Belle and Sebastian

What to Look for in Summer

Matador

Pop/Rock

This double live album from indie pop's perennial darlings includes fun renditions of both familiar favorites and lesser-known selections.

— Fred Thomas

Osees / Thee Oh Sees

Panther Rotate

Castle Face

Pop/Rock

Remixes, remakes, and freak-outs built from the guts of the band's previous album Protean Threat.

— Tim Sendra

Guided by Voices

Styles We Paid For

GBV

Pop/Rock

The band's sixth album in two years sparks with their intrinsic blend of cool abstraction and unkempt craft.

— Timothy Monger

Heavenly

A Bout de Heavenly [The Singles]

Damaged Goods

Pop/Rock

Long overdue collection of the indie pop band's singles that range from giddy, girl group-influenced twee pop to powerfully punchy Brit-pop.

— Tim Sendra

Boris / Merzbow

2R0I2P0

Relapse Records

Pop/Rock

On their eighth collaboration, the power trio and industrial noise master offer canny, wildly creative new versions of catalog tracks.

— Thom Jurek

Doug Carn / Ali Shaheed Muhammad / Adrian Younge

Doug Carn JID005

Jazz Is Dead

Jazz

The fifth and final 2020 entry in the Jazz Is Dead series focuses its collaboration on the spiritual jazz-funk master musician and composer.

— Thom Jurek

Deftones

White Pony [20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition]

Warner Bros. / Warner Records

Pop/Rock

Long-rumored remix companion to the band's seminal 2000 effort, White Pony.

— Neil Z. Yeung

Landshapes

Contact

Bella Union

Pop/Rock

The Londoners' blend of experimental rock and retro pop lives and breathes on their first album to be recorded live in the studio.

— Marcy Donelson

Lonnie Holley

National Freedom

Jagjaguwar

Pop/Rock, Avant-Garde

Five-song EP documenting two sessions the visionary artist/musician recorded at the late Richard Swift's studio in 2013 and 2014.

— Paul Simpson

The Night Mail / Louis Philippe

Thunderclouds

Tapete Records

Pop/Rock

Chamber pop's premier cult figure delivers his first solo outing in 13 years and it's as classy as anything in his catalog.

— Timothy Monger

BOYO

Alone Together in Los Angeles

Park the Van

Pop/Rock

A brighter unofficial companion album to the same year's Where Have All My Friends Gone?

— Marcy Donelson

Field Medic

Floral Prince [Red Vinyl]

Run for Cover Records

Pop/Rock

The Bay Area folk artist weaves songs about complex love and embracing sobriety through various prisms of lo-fi production.

— Fred Thomas

Ryan Adams

Wednesdays

Pax Americana

Ryan Adams breaks his silence with the slow, mopey Wednesdays.

— Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Emerson String Quartet

Schumann: String Quartets

Pentatone / PentaTone Classics

Classical

Restrained performance of Schumann's three string quartets reveals many details.

— James Manheim

Katia and Marielle Labèque

Glass: Les Enfants Terribles

Deutsche Grammophon

Classical

A Glass recording by the ageless Labèque sisters plays to their strengths.

— James Manheim

Mary Bevan / Nicky Spence / Roderick Williams / Jack Liebeck / William Vann

Ralph Vaughan Williams: Folk Songs, Vol. 1

Albion

Classical

First-in-a-series release offers many world premieres of Vaughan Williams' folk song arrangements in excellent performances.

— James Manheim

Ensemble Correspondances / Sébastien Daucé

Charpentier: Messe à quatre chœurs; Carnets de voyage d'Italie

Harmonia Mundi

Classical

Intriguing and beautifully performed examination of Charpentier's Italian antecedents, culminating in his magnificent Messe à quatre choeurs.

— James Manheim

The Tallis Scholars / Peter Phillips

Josquin: Masses - Hercules Dux Ferrarie, D'ung aultre amer, Faysant regretz

Gimell

Classical

Technically flawless performances illuminate some of Josquin's boldest masses in this finale to the Tallis Scholars' series.

— James Manheim

Vasily Petrenko / Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

Stravinsky: Petrushka; Rossini/Respighi: La Boutique fantasque

Onyx

Classical

A sparkling Petrushka is joined to an unusual work with links to the Russian-French ballet tradition.

— James Manheim

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