Virginia Wing

Private Life

Fire Records

Pop/Rock

The duo's rapturous and challenging fourth album leans into the experimental side of its music.

— Heather Phares

Django Django

Glowing in the Dark

Because Music

Pop/Rock

The U.K. art-pop outfit double down on their signature sound for a pleasing and occasionally breezy fourth album.

— Timothy Monger

Florida Georgia Line

Life Rolls On

Big Machine Records

Country

Florida Georgia Line deliver happy hour anthems and mellow romance on their fourth album.

— Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Robin Thicke

On Earth, and in Heaven

Lucky Music

R&B

Impressive and stirring independent return from the singer, his first album since 2014.

— Andy Kellman

Sia

Music [Songs from and Inspired by the Motion Picture]

Atlantic / Maverick / Reprise / Warner Music

Pop/Rock, Stage & Screen

The Australian pop maven expands her signature sound to cinematic scale on songs from and inspired by her directorial debut.

— Neil Z. Yeung

R+R=Now

Live

Blue Note

Jazz, R&B

Expansive and funky concert album culled from the fusion collective's 2018 residency at the Blue Note.

— Matt Collar

The Band

Stage Fright [50th Anniversary]

Capitol

Pop/Rock

An expanded edition of The Band's third album boasts a new running order, a new mix, and a host of live outtakes.

Black Sabbath

Vol. 4 [Super Deluxe Edition]

Rhino / Warner Records

Pop/Rock

The metal pioneers turned in some of the heaviest, most doom-laden songs of their career on this masterpiece, here remastered and expanded with 20 bonus tracks.

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Tyron

Method Records

Rap

The follow-up to the acclaimed U.K. rapper's Top Ten-charting debut focuses on his own complex personality.

— Paul Simpson

Rat Columns

Pacific Kiss

Tough Love

Pop/Rock

The David West-led band display mastery over the intertwined forms of dynamic indie rock and jangling indie pop on their fourth album.

— Tim Sendra

His Name Is Alive

A Silver Thread: Home Recordings 1979-1990

Disciples

Pop/Rock

Comprehensive set compiling all three archival His Name Is Alive releases and a wealth of bonus material.

— Heather Phares

His Name Is Alive

Hope Is a Candle: Home Recordings 1985-1990

Disciples

Pop/Rock

The final volume of early recordings bridges the project's ambient beginnings and nascent dream pop.

— Heather Phares

John Mayall

First Generation 1965-1974

Madfish / Snapper

Blues

A massive 35-disc box set presents its subject as one of the most innovative, influential, and prolific blues musicians to emerge from the 20th century.

— Thom Jurek

Claud

Super Monster

Saddest Factory / Dead Oceans

Pop/Rock

The first release on Phoebe Bridgers' Saddest Factory label is an indie pop debut that combines vulnerability, simple hooks, and playful production.

— Marcy Donelson

Death by Unga Bunga

Heavy Male Insecurity

Jansen

Pop/Rock

The Norwegian punk/power pop outfit's sixth long-player elicits notes of burnt sugar, summer sweat, and stale cigarette smoke.

— James Christopher Monger

Jakob Bro / Arve Henriksen / Jorge Rossy

Uma Elmo

ECM

Jazz

The Danish guitarist and his new European trio cut this series of lovely, dark, and mysterious pieces over two short days in Switzerland.

— Thom Jurek

Jeremy Pelt

Griot: This Is Important!

HighNote Records

Jazz

The trumpeter's companion album to his jazz interview book finds him using his conversations as a jumping-off point for his quintet.

— Matt Collar

Mia Doi Todd

Music Life

City Zen

Pop/Rock

The globally inspired L.A. singer/songwriter offers up an evocative return to original music on her 12th album.

— Timothy Monger

The Moons

Pocket Melodies

Colorama Records

Pop/Rock

An uplifting and infectious, filler-free fourth album -- despite its hour-long playing time -- that includes a co-write with Paul Weller.

— Marcy Donelson

Mush

Lines Redacted

Memphis Industries

Pop/Rock

The U.K. rockers' more-challenging second album continues to explore an unsavory sociopolitical landscape with a distinctly angular post-punk.

— Marcy Donelson

Nonconnah

Songs for and About Ghosts

Ernest Jenning

Pop/Rock, Electronic

Haunting dreamscapes incorporating shoegaze-like guitars, found sounds, harrowing speech excerpts, and acoustic instruments.

— Paul Simpson

Flex Ensemble

Inside Eroica

Avi-Music / CAvi-music

Classical

A lively performance of the Ries transcription of Beethoven's Symphony No. 3, framed by Eroica-related modern compositions.

— James Manheim

Jeanne Golan

It Takes One to Tango: Works of Contemporary and Recovered Voices Composers

Steinway & Sons

Classical

An album of tango-inspired music seems to have two themes, but they cohere.

— James Manheim

Arcadia Quartet

Weinberg, Vol. 1: String Quartets Nos. 2, 5, and 8

Chandos

Classical

The first release in a new cycle captures Weinberg's debt to Shostakovich and, perhaps, the reverse influence.

— James Manheim

Benjamin Alard

Johann Sebastian Bach: The Complete Works for Keyboard, Vol. 4 - Alla Veneziana

Harmonia Mundi

Classical

The third installment in keyboardist Alard's giant Bach project includes performances on interesting and unusual instruments.

— James Manheim

Ensemble Origo / Eric Rice

Orlando de Lassus: Le Nozze in Baviera

Naxos

Classical

Reconstruction of a royal wedding in Bavaria in 1568 contextualizes both sacred and outrageous secular pieces.

— James Manheim

René Jacobs / Berlin RIAS Chamber Choir / Freiburger Barockorchester / Polina Pastirchak

Beethoven: Missa Solemnis

Harmonia Mundi

Classical

An often revelatory Missa Solemnis gives a sense of Beethoven's wrestling with the text.

— James Manheim

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