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November 5, 2021
Valentine
Matador
Synths, strings, and power chords outweigh the distinctive guitar phrasing of 2018's Lush on Lindsey Jordan's breakup-and-recovery-themed follow-up.
Thank You
Decca
An optimistic set of modern (if past-referencing) ballads and dancefloor grooves from the Motown legend, featuring one song produced by Jack Antonoff.
The Future
Fantasy / Stax
Rateliff gives his band some weightier material to chew on, resulting in their most diverse set to date.
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Pretenders [Deluxe Edition]
Rhino
The band's debut is given the deluxe edition treatment featuring a remastered album plus B-sides, demos and some live cuts.
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Pretenders II [Deluxe Edition]
Rhino
A remastered deluxe edition including demos and two live concerts from 1980 and 1981.
The Solution Is Restless
PIAS
A mercurial three-way collaboration results in a headphone gem of quiet sophistication.
Obviously 5 Believers
Easy Action Records / Seventeen
Essential archival release from a short-lived late-'70s group that included Dave Kusworth and Stephen Duffy and melded Postcard pop, romantic punk, and Stones swagger.
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10,000 Hz Legend [20th Anniversary Edition]
Parlophone / Rhino
This 20th anniversary edition is a three-disc set featuring previously unreleased demo versions and and a blu-ray including a 5.1 mix and a PCM stereo mix.
Chanson Hysterique 1995-2005
Tapete Records
Gathering the duo's first six albums and rarities, the final project Françoise Cactus worked on celebrates the band's shabbily glamorous style.
Still Over It
Interscope / LVRN
The R&B singer/songwriter's second album is filled with aching if resolute ballads and contains the Top 40 hit "Ex for a Reason."
Engine of Hell
Sargent House
The evocative post-rock singer/songwriter delivers a stark and stormy set that pairs everything down to the essentials.
Still Rising: The Collection
Blue Note
The Grammy-winning jazz and R&B vocalist takes stock of the past and future of his career on this ebullient anthology.
Chime School
Slumberland
Bite-sized jangle pop gems that sound like they were extracted from the Creation catalog circa 1986.
If Words Were Flowers
Anti-
The vocalist and songwriter once again mines R&B's past and present for a set of songs offering love to a world in need.
Public Storage
Ghostly International
A distinctively knotty timbral palette and wounded tone unite the L.A. songwriter/producer's full-length and Ghostly International debut.
HARD FEELINGS
Domino
Singer/songwriter Amy Douglas and Hot Chip's Joe Goddard draw on operatic intensity, sci-fi synth pop, and their deep love of house and disco on their engaging collaboration.
0000 + 0000
Mais Um / Mais Um Discos
After immigrating to New Orleans from Puerto Rico, ÌFÉ explores social justice and Yoruban spirituality with a beat-conscious international cast.
Words and Endings
On the Corner
The Danish producer delves deeply into dub, post-punk, and avant-jazz influences on his expectation-defying third album.
Until We Fossilize
Fire Records
A notably strange, subtle, cerebral indie art song debut by an Italian songwriter diverging from a decade as a jazz singer.
Which Way to Happy
Bella Union
The noise pop band's lockdown-informed second album is sonically expansive, lyrically anxious, and epically immersive.
Drones
Sounds of Crenshaw
The likes of Kendrick Lamar, Snoop Dogg, and Kamasi Washington join the Grammy-nominated musician/producer on his first proper LP in five years.
Raw Demoon Alchemy (A Lone Operation)
Northern Spy
An emotional solo saxophone performance captures the artist in the act of reinterpreting classic vanguard works and a jazz standard for the future.
Vixen
Kill Rock Stars
The band's Kill Rock Stars debut hones their cathartic surf-punk to a sharper and more revealing edge.
Codebreaker
Tao Forms
On his 16th solo outing, the pianist travels a line of discovery between harmonic poles in the jazz piano vocabulary, then extends it.
Earth Mirror
Ba Da Bing Records
The British duo's dream-sourced, lunar drone-folk and ritual ambient draws from occult history and esoteric philosophy.
absent origin
Warp
A dense, fractured collage drawn from a decade's worth of worldwide travels and the artist's own compositions.
Mahler: Symphony No. 8 'Symphony of a Thousand'
LPO
Gigantic performance, even by the standards of the "Symphony of a Thousand," brings tremendous excitement and transcendence.
Hope
Deutsche Grammophon
Hope layers on the sentiment in this entirely original album explicitly intended as a ray of hope in coronavirus times.
12 Stradivari
Decca
Documentary-related release succeeds in conveying the variety of the Stradivarius violin legacy.
Melancolía
PentaTone Classics
Highly affecting music from late medieval Spain links the melancholy moods of unrequited love, mourning, and apocalypse.
Fleur de mon âme
Linn / Linn Records
Mezzo-soprano Cargill seems ideally attuned to French song repertory and has the dreamy yet slightly sultry voice to execute it.
Mozart: Mass No. 16 'Coronation Mass'; Missa longa
Naxos
The inaugural volume in a welcome new traversal of Mozart's masses features the extraordinary Missa longa, K. 265.