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June 4, 2021
Jubilee
Dead Oceans
Michelle Zauner follows the success of her memoir, Crying in H Mart, with her thoughtfully sophisticated third album.
Changephobia
Matsor Projects
The singer/songwriter and producer navigates a world in flux with brilliantly evocative and frequently moving songs.
Dreamers Are Waiting
BMG
Crowded House return from an 11-year hiatus with a subdued, reassuring, and subtly adventurous set.
Blue Weekend
Dirty Hit / Universal
The band's ambitious, unabashedly emotional third album balances intimacy and majesty with cinematic skill.
Hardware
Concord
Gibbons' third solo album finds him drawing upon his time-tested strengths while adding elements of dusty desert splendor.
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Since I Left You [20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition]
Universal
The 20th anniversary edition of this legendary release features remixes by MF Doom, Carl Craig, Sinkane, Leon Vinehall and more.
Rare Pleasure
Stones Throw
Ringgo Ancheta offers benevolent companionship across breezy soul ballads aided by Kiefer, Carlos Niño, and Miguel Atwood-Ferguson, among other musicians.
All the Colours of You
Nothing But Love Music / Virgin
James take stock of the COVID-19 era with ambitious, arty music delivered with soft edges and strong hooks.
Candlepower
Fire Records
An efficient, seven-track introduction to a singer/songwriter who channels influences like Joni Mitchell and Carole King with touching precision.
Laysongs
Nonesuch
The mandolin master's first true solo album combines original songs and covers tied together by a multifaceted look at spirituality.
Reflection
Hyperdub
Loraine James' second Hyperdub full-length is another eclectic, personal expression, leaning closer to drill and R&B than her previous album.
Cherry
Don Giovanni
The former Quilt member's confident debut album introduces her as a solo artist with a knack for confident, unpredictable pop.
Various Artists
Caught Beneath the Landslide
Edsel
A surprising and fun look at the Britpop era that stretches the boundaries gently and focuses on album tracks, covers, and rarities instead of the hits.
Jump for Joy
Sham
Ten home-recorded songs from the Jayhawks' frontman find him modestly trying out some different approaches to his writing.
Joao Donato JID007
Jazz Is Dead
The great Brazilian pianist and composer joins the JID curators in a bright, flowing fusion of jazz-funk, samba, bossa, and Bahian soul.
Disco Elysium
Iam8bit
The arty U.K. indie rock group release their award-winning computer game score, which makes a better backdrop than foreground.
Rock & Roll This, Rock & Roll That: Best Case Scenario, You've Got Mumps
Omnivore
The recorded legacy of a tuneful, energetic, wickedly funny band who suffered for being too smart and too ahead of their time.
Outlaw R&B
Cooking Vinyl / Fuzz Club Records
Danny Lee Blackwell turns his back on the polish of 2019's Myth of a Man in favor of a return to gritty, psych-infused blues.
Sun
Shelflife
An aptly titled sophomore album of glimmery, dance-minded indie pop in the tradition of Phoenix and Beach Fossils.
Nowhere Generation
Loma Vista
The ninth full-length outing from the veteran punk outfit is both apoplectic and refined.
The 8 of Space
Editions Mego
Schneider TM returns to the electropop abstractions of his earlier work, with playful yet cynical lyrics about space travel and robot life.
Various Artists
Beyond the Pale Horizon: British Progressive Pop Sounds of 1972
Grapefruit
The Grapefruit label argues that the '70s began in 1972 on this excellent year-specific anthology of British pop and rock.
Passione
Decca
Young tenor sensation impresses most in orchestrated Puccini songs in this debut release.
Im Abendrot: Wagner, Pfitzner, Strauss
Deutsche Grammophon
A glorious, burnished example of the mature Goerne voice: a lieder album to treasure.
Magnificat 2
Signum Classics
The second of a pair of Magnificat/Nunc dimittis collections from St. John's Cambridge is even more impressive than the first.
Brahms: Symphony No. 2
PentaTone Classics
An entirely fresh reading of Brahms Second from nonagenarian Blomstedt.
Metamorphosis: Bach Cello Suties 1, 2, and 3
Sono Luminus
Viola version of Bach's cello suites catches the interiority of the performance and the details of the historical instrument involved.
Robert Schumann: Complete Piano Trios, Quartet & Quintet
Harmonia Mundi
A fine complete Schubert chamber set that stresses the works' forward-looking intricacies rather than Beethovenian heroics.