Featured New Album Releases

Teenage Fanclub

Endless Arcade

Merge

Pop/Rock

The Scottish rock outfit's 11th album and first without founding bassist/vocalist Gerard Love is lyrical and poignant.

— Matt Collar

The Coral

Coral Island

Run On Records

Pop/Rock

Inspired by faded seaside resorts, the group explore pre-Beatles pop, psychedelia, folk-rock and more on a brilliant double-record that's both expansive and focused.

— Tim Sendra

Manchester Orchestra

Million Masks of God

Loma Vista

Pop/Rock

The Georgia outfit's sixth album finds them further embracing an epic, cinematically concept-driven aesthetic.

— Matt Collar

Marianne Faithfull

She Walks in Beauty

BMG / BMG Rights Management

Comedy/Spoken, Pop/Rock

The singer reads a sampling from her favorite British poets, and the weathered maturity of her voice serves them beautifully.

— Mark Deming

Guided by Voices

Earth Man Blues

Guided by Voices, Inc.

Pop/Rock

The 33rd studio album from Ohio indie rock stalwarts wanders between straightforward power pop and more bizarre experiments.

— Fred Thomas

Dawn Richard

Second Line

Merge

R&B

The New Orleanian dynamo proudly reps her region, state, area code, and even home on her first Merge album.

— Andy Kellman

PJ Harvey

Uh Huh Her: The Demos

Island / UMC / Universal

Pop/Rock

Reflecting the spontaneity of her creative process, the initial recordings for the singer/songwriter's sixth album are raw yet nuanced.

— Heather Phares

Róisín Murphy

Crooked Machine

Skint Records

Electronic, Pop/Rock

Crooked Man's Richard Barratt reimagines Róisín Machine in elegant, hypnotic, and possibly even more danceable ways.

— Heather Phares

Michael Nesmith

Different Drum: The Lost RCA Victor Recordings

Real Gone Music

Pop/Rock, Country

Outtakes, alternate versions, and backing tracks from the Smart Monkee's excellent 1970s country-rock albums.

— Mark Deming

Mick Fleetwood

Celebrate the Music of Peter Green and the Early Years of Fleetwood Mac

BMG

Blues, Pop/Rock

With the help of some superstar friends, Mick Fleetwood celebrates the music of his old friend and bandmate Peter Green.

— Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Tetrarch

Unstable

Napalm Records

Pop/Rock

Explosive sophomore breakthrough from the Atlanta-bred nu-metal revivalists that channels Korn and Slipknot.

— Neil Z. Yeung

Ashley Monroe

Rosegold

Mountainrose Sparrow

Country

A stylized, spacy excursion into electronically glazed pop.

— Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Bonnie "Prince" Billy / Matt Sweeney

Superwolves

Drag City

Pop/Rock

The longtime collaborators rekindle the spacious, pristine atmosphere of their 2005 album Superwolf, this time with assistance on several livelier songs from Mdou Moctar.

— Fred Thomas

Pet Shop Boys

Discovery: Live in Rio

Parlophone / Rhino

Pop/Rock, Electronic

A particularly electric live set from the iconic synth pop duo's first visit to Brazil, originally released on video in 1995.

— Paul Simpson

Thomas Rhett

Country Again (Side A)

Valory

Country

The country-pop singer strains to convey down-home authenticity.

— Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Juan Wauters

Real Life Situations

Captured Tracks

Pop/Rock

A unique panoply of quirky, anxious, and sometimes joyful lo-fi pop documenting a difficult year.

— Timothy Monger

Leon Vynehall

Rare, Forever

Ninja Tune

Electronic

Vynehall's second Ninja Tune full-length is another left turn, filled with angular club experiments and ambient jazz daydreams.

— Paul Simpson

Beverly Glenn-Copeland

Keyboard Fantasies

Transgressive

New Age, Pop/Rock

A wholesome, encouraging album of new age pop songs which gradually found an audience decades after its initial 1986 release.

— Paul Simpson

Rochelle Jordan

Play With the Changes

Young Art

R&B

Assisted by KLSH, Jimmy Edgar, and Machinedrum, the progressive electronic R&B specialist hits her stride by integrating house, garage, and drum'n'bass.

— Andy Kellman

Royal Blood

Typhoons

Warner Bros. / Warner Records

Pop/Rock

Royal Blood gets trashy after hooking up with Queens of the Stone Age's Josh Homme.

— Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Grave Flowers Bongo Band

Strength of Spring

Castle Face

Pop/Rock

The band's second album ups the amp-breaking riffage while keeping the psych folk undertow and rambling songcraft of the past intact.

— Tim Sendra

Birdy

Young Heart

Atlantic

Pop/Rock

The English singer/songwriter's fourth set soothes heartache with comforting production and relatable storytelling.

— Neil Z. Yeung

Telex

This Is Telex

Mute

Pop/Rock

This fun overview begins a sweeping reissue campaign for the Belgian electro-pop trio.

— Andy Kellman

Keith Klingensmith / The Legal Matters / Andy Reed / Chris Richards

Chapter Three

Futureman Records

Pop/Rock

The third album from Michigan's Power Pop All-Stars is a great set of songs elevated by fine performances and excellent production.

— Mark Deming

Gojira

Fortitude

Roadrunner / Roadrunner Records

Pop/Rock

Five long years after Magma, the French metallers up their creative ante with power, innovation, and excellent songwriting.

— Thom Jurek

Maxwell Farrington / Le SuperHomard

Once

Talitres

Pop/Rock

The producer/arranger and art-pop baritone team up for an only slightly modernized stylistic tribute to Lee Hazlewood-esque narrative pop of the '60s.

— Marcy Donelson