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November 12, 2021
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Red [Taylor's Version]
EMI / Republic
The second in a series of catalog re-recordings is highlighted by several unheard songs including a ten-minute version of "All Too Well."
Things Take Time, Take Time
Marathon Artists / Milk! Records / Mom + Pop Music
The Aussie turns in a largely midtempo set that skews toward ruminative rather than rock & roll.
An Evening with Silk Sonic
Aftermath / Atlantic
Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak push each another to new levels of showmanship on this duly entertaining half-hour of feel-good throwback R&B.
The Tears of Hercules
Rhino / Warner Music
Rod Stewart freshens up his sound and revives his randy side.
Joni Mitchell Archives, Vol. 2: The Reprise Years (1968-1971)
Rhino
Previously unreleased demos, live material, and studio outtakes track one of the most exciting early phases of this legendary songwriter's development.
Book
Idlewild Recordings
The band kick off the 2020s with a timely and timeless audiovisual celebration of their bright melodies and pointedly dark words.
Elvis Back in Nashville
Legacy / Sony Music
A deep dive into Presley's 1971 sessions in Nashville, where he cut country-folk, gospel, and Christmas tunes.
The Nearer the Fountain, More Pure the Stream Flows
Transgressive
An elegiac, shape-shifting ode to Damon Albarn's adopted homeland of Iceland.
Various Artists
Highway Butterfly: The Songs of Neal Casal
Royal Potato Family
A multi-disc collection of Neal Casal's songs performed by musicians who loved him serves as a brilliant reappraisal of the late songwriter's work.
DISCO: Guest List Edition
BMG
A three-disc reissue featuring new collaborations with
Jessie Ware, Years & Years, and Gloria Gaynor plus
previously unreleased remixes.
For Allting
Run for Cover Records
The band's fourth album buries their dark indie pop angst under buckets of reverb and arrives at a more tuneful, more emotionally powerful sound.
Heavy Load Blues
Fantasy
Twenty-five years into a storied career, the rootsy hard rock quartet delivers a series of raw, straight blues covers and originals for the first time.
Grizzly Peak
Polyvinyl
The guitar-and-drums duo's eighth LP revisits their original goal of capturing the sound and feel of being inside a guitar -- with impressive results.
Paragons
Sacred Bones
This long-running project centered around experimental songwriter Ben Jones takes a dramatic shift toward clarity and directness with this new set of lushly arranged songs.
The Silver Threshold
Mute
Cinematic strings and postindustrial rhythms from Alexander Hacke (Einstürzende Neubauten) and multimedia artist Danielle de Picciotto.
Open the Gates
International Anthem
On their third long-player, the Brooklyn collective expand their musical reach, embracing Afro-Latin grooves, mutant funk, and post-punk.
Dr Cholmondley Repents: A-Sides, B-Sides and Seasides
Fire Records
A well-chosen collection of singles, rare tracks, B-sides, oddities, and a 1989 radio session by one of the great eccentric bands of the '80s and '90s.
Imposter
Columbia
This covers set is the third collaboration between the Depeche Mode frontman and the electronic producers.
Rhythm & Paranoia: The Best of Bush Tetras
Wharf Cat Records
Superb anthology that spans 40 years in the life of a band fusing edgy noise guitar and urban paranoia with muscular funk.
Welcome Break
Heavenly
The band's second album tightens up their energetic '90s alt-rock sound, adding some sweet pop hooks and harmony vocals to the mix.
Garbology
Rhymesayers Entertainment
The first full album by two longtime collaborators, focusing on freakish characters and fantastic stories.
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Friends In the Corner [EP]
PIAS
Stopgap EP between 2016's international breakthrough All I Need and 2022's The Kick.
Between Us
RCA
The British pop group's first hits collection features fan favorites and a handful of newly recorded tracks.
Macon
Broken Bow
The first part of a double album finds Jason Aldean largely sticking to his tried-and-true slow-burning jams.
Music for Psychedelic Therapy
Domino
Jon Hopkins abandons techno, instead crafting a meditative sound bath incorporating natural sounds and the words of Ram Dass.
Christmas Songs, Vol. 1
Loma Vista
The Georgia rock outfit strike an introspective, candle-lit mood on their first holiday album.
EXTLP
Monkeytown
The eclectic Berlin duo present full-length album versions of material from their 2021 mixtape and accompanying EPs.
Knows No Kindness
New West / Next Door Records
On their sophomore album, the Toronto-based indie rockers deliver a wistful set of measured provincial folk-rock.
In Virus Times
Mute
Recorded at the veteran guitarist's home, these spellbinding acoustic pieces mirror the way time moved -- or didn't -- during the COVID-19 global pandemic.
No Time for Chamber Music
Alpha
Mahler, not just arranged for a string nonet, but reconceptualized according to the wide variety of sounds the ensemble makes.
Elogio de la Guitarra
Chandos
An exceptionally virtuosic album of Spanish, Italian, and Argentine guitar works satisfies with commanding presence.
Dedication: The Clarinet Chamber Music of Ruth Gipps
Somm
Delightful works by a neglected female composer, in a quiet pastoral mood but never derivative of Vaughan Williams.
Liszt: Harmonies poétiques et religieuses
Steinway & Sons
Distributed unusually between two pianists, these performances of Liszt's big set of "poetic and religious harmonies" capture the music's strangeness.
Bach: Complete English Suites
Chaconne / Chandos
A straightforward reading of the English Suites, unencumbered by either heroic Bach ideas or heavy dance rhythms.
Jane Archibald / Leonardo Capalbo / Thomas Allen / Anne Sofie von Otter / Marin Alsop / London Symphony Orchestra
Bernstein: Candide
LSO Live
An operatic Candide from Bernstein specialist and admirer Alsop, leading the London Symphony.