Eric Church

Heart

Snakefarm Records

Country

The first installment in a trilogy captures Eric Church's sensitive side and sturdy craftsmanship.

— Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Greta Van Fleet

The Battle at Garden's Gate

EMI / Lava Records / Republic

Pop/Rock

Working with producer Greg Kurstin, the '70s revivalists amplify all of the strong parts of their debut.

— Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Norah Jones

'Til We Meet Again [Live]

Blue Note

Pop/Rock, Jazz

A collection of highlights from Norah Jones' live tours of the late 2010s.

— Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Tom Petty

Finding Wildflowers [Alternate Versions]

Warner Bros. / Warner Records

Pop/Rock

Alternate versions of most of the songs from Tom Petty's 1994 classic Wildflowers.

— Stephen Thomas Erlewine

The Offspring

Let the Bad Times Roll

Concord

Pop/Rock

The Offspring settle into a slightly cranky middle age with the long-delayed Let the Bad Times Roll.

— Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Andy Stott

Never the Right Time

Modern Love

Electronic

Distinct from his 2019 double EP, the producer's stirring fifth LP evokes emotional disintegration with help from returning vocalist Alison Skidmore.

— Andy Kellman

Liquid Tension Experiment

LTE3

Century Media / Inside Out Music / SPV

Jazz, Pop/Rock

Twenty-two years after releasing their last studio album, this instrumental prog supergroup dazzles with their return.

— Thom Jurek

Midland

The Sonic Ranch

Big Machine Records

Country

Recordings Midland made in 2014, just as they were finding their voice as a trio.

— Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Lucinda Williams

Lu's Jukebox, Vol. 1: Runnin' Down a Dream: A Tribute to Tom Petty

Highway 20 Records

Pop/Rock, Country

One great Southern songwriter honors another in this album featuring 13 covers from Tom Petty's songbook.

— Mark Deming

Hudson Mohawke

Hudson's Heeters, Vol. 1

Warp

Electronic, Rap

2006 debut mixtape from the influential Scottish producer, introducing his bombastic, bass-heavy brand of instrumental hip-hop.

— Paul Simpson

Natural Information Society / Evan Parker

Descension (Out of Our Constrictions)

Aguirre Records / Eremite

Jazz

A set-long collaboration between the Chicago-based world jazz ensemble and soprano maverick Evan Parker delivers ecstatic results.

— Thom Jurek

Unschooling

Random Acts of Total Control

Howlin' Banana Records

Pop/Rock

A bracing blast of post-punk revival played with fiery abandon by a quartet of Frenchmen.

— Tim Sendra

The Nightingales

Pigs on Purpose

Call of the Void

Pop/Rock

The 1982 debut album from this experimentally driven U.K. post-punk band is filled out with songs from early singles and demo sessions.

— Fred Thomas

Son Lux

Tomorrows III

City Slang

Pop/Rock

A striking, high-contrast conclusion to the inventive post-rock outfit's 2020-2021 trilogy.

— Marcy Donelson

Garage a Trois

Calm Down Cologne

Royal Potato Family

Jazz, Pop/Rock

Fevered grooves and psych textures mark this reunion of the experimental trio's original lineup.

— Matt Collar

Motorpsycho

Kingdom of Oblivion

Rune Grammofon

Pop/Rock

Composed of material demoed for but left off the Gullvåg Trilogy, the band re-envisioned and re-recorded these songs as a freestanding album.

— Thom Jurek

Raf Rundell

O.M. Days

Heavenly

Pop/Rock

A warmhearted and easygoing journey through multiple streams of post-rave U.K. dance music.

— Tim Sendra

Apollo5

Where All Roses Go

VOCES8 Records

Classical

A cappella vocal quintet manages a range of moods, including broadly emotional, all within a basic British choral style.

— James Manheim

Isabelle Faust / Alexander Melnikov / Jean-Guihen Queyras / Freiburger Barockorchester / Pablo Heras-Casado

Beethoven: Triple Concerto; Piano Trio Op. 36 (Symphony No. 2)

Harmonia Mundi

Classical

A splendid historically oriented Beethoven performances with touches of the humor that is so often missed in his music.

— James Manheim

Benjamin Grosvenor

Liszt

Decca

Classical

A superb Liszt recording that captures the improvisatory quality Liszt's own performances must have had.

— James Manheim

The King's Consort / Robert King

Purcell: Royal Odes

Vivat

Classical

An extraordinary performance of Henry Purcell's inexplicably neglected Royal Odes.

— James Manheim

Thomas Dausgaard / BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Bartók: The Miraculous Mandarin, Suite No. 2 & Hungarian Peasant Songs

Onyx Classics

Classical

A rather restrained but dramatically sound reading of The Miraculous Mandarin, with two lesser-known Bartók works.

— James Manheim

New York Polyphony

And the Sun Darkened: Music for Passiontide

BIS

Classical

The madrigalesque sound of the quartet New York Polyphony fits this intimate sacred music.

— James Manheim

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