King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard

Butterfly 3001

KGLW

Electronic, Pop/Rock

Remixes and remodels of tracks from Butterfly 3000 done by a mix of big names and less well-known electronic artists.

— Tim Sendra

John Mellencamp

Strictly a One-Eyed Jack

EMI Records / Republic

Pop/Rock

The heartland rock hero of the 1980s leans to citified folk on an album where he celebrates aging with help from Bruce Springsteen.

— Mark Deming

Boris

W

Sacred Bones

Pop/Rock

Recorded as a companion to No, this contrasting set amounts to its opposite, shrouded in ambient guitars, drifting effects, and Wata's dreamy vocals.

— Thom Jurek

Kids on a Crime Spree

Fall in Love Not in Line

Slumberland

Pop/Rock

A joyfully noisy, happily hooky, and sneakily political second album that builds nicely on the band's almost perfect debut.

— Tim Sendra

AURORA

The Gods We Can Touch

Glassnote Entertainment Group

Pop/Rock

An ambitious mix of intimate acoustic, club-fit electro, and sweeping orchestral pop marks the Norwegian's mythology-themed fourth album.

— Marcy Donelson

Jake Xerxes Fussell

Good and Green Again

Paradise of Bachelors

Folk, Blues

The North Carolinian turns in another marvelous and deeply charming LP of obscure folk songs and a handful of originals.

— Timothy Monger

Silvana Estrada

Marchita

Glassnote Entertainment Group

Latin, Pop/Rock, Jazz

The Mexico City-based songstress delivers a simply rendered set of emotionally powerful songs that reflect tradition but are not traditional.

— Thom Jurek

Keb' Mo'

Good to Be...

Concord / Rounder

Blues

A mellow, soulful album that features cameos from Darius Rucker, Old Crow Medicine Show, and Kristin Chenoweth.

— Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Artsick

Fingers Crossed

Slumberland

Pop/Rock

Members of Burnt Palms, Lunchbox, and Kids on a Crime Spree make a not-to-be-missed trio debut for fans of punk-leaning D.I.Y. indie pop.

— Marcy Donelson

Billy Talent

Crisis of Faith

Spinefarm Records

Pop/Rock

The Canadian rock stalwarts process societal issues big and small with this lean burst of punk-inflected anthems.

— Neil Z. Yeung

GCOM

E2-XO

!K7

Electronic

Ambitious, genre-spanning project from Tom Middleton (Global Communication) that explores themes related to artificial intelligence and space travel.

— Paul Simpson

Miles Kane

Change the Show

BMG / BMG Rights Management

Pop/Rock

The Last Shadow Puppets co-leader brings a frothy, glitter-punk swagger to his ebullient fourth album.

— Matt Collar

The Soundcarriers

Wilds

Phosphonic

Pop/Rock

The moodily autumnal psych combo return from a break with their most assured and song-based album to date.

— Tim Sendra

BBC Radiophonic Workshop / Stealing Sheep

La Planète Sauvage

Fire Records

Electronic, Stage & Screen

The Liverpool trio teams up with the Radiophonic Workshop on a fascinating live rescoring of the cult classic 1973 animated sci-fi film.

— Heather Phares

Various Artists

1979: Revolt Into Style

Cherry Red

Pop/Rock

This 76-song, four-hour-long compilation explores British post-punk and new wave by presenting certified hits alongside obscure gems.

— Fred Thomas

Walker Hayes

Country Stuff the Album

Monument Records

Country, Pop/Rock

Walker Hayes doubles down on the silly, tacky "Fancy Like" and winds up with an album that's a bunch of fun.

— Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Reptaliens

Multiverse

Captured Tracks

Pop/Rock

The third album from this Portland act trades woozy, galactic synth pop for a more direct sound inspired in part by '90s alt-rock.

— Fred Thomas

Martina Topley-Bird

Forever I Wait

Martina Topley-Bird

Pop/Rock, Electronic

Martina Topley-Bird's first album in over a decade is an emotionally varied work reflecting several periods of her life.

— Paul Simpson

David Binney

A Glimpse of the Eternal

Criss Cross

Jazz

An uncharacteristically straight-ahead date from the saxist and an all-star quartet contains compelling covers as well as bracing originals.

— Thom Jurek

The Whitmore Sisters

Ghost Stories

Red House Records

Pop/Rock, Country, Folk

The debut from Bonnie and Eleanor Whitmore combines hard-won wisdom with tight sibling harmonies.

— James Christopher Monger

Andrew Cyrille / William Parker / Enrico Rava

2 Blues for Cecil

TUM Records

Jazz

Tribute to Cecil Taylor recorded by a star-studded trio of players who worked with and were profoundly influenced by him.

— Thom Jurek

Lea Desandre / Thomas Dunford / Jupiter

Amazone

Warner Classics

Classical

Unfamiliar Baroque arias reveal a fascinating repertory dealing with the Amazons of Greek mythology, done full justice by Desandre.

— James Manheim

Marcantonio Barone

George Crumb: Metamorphoses, Books I & II

Bridge

Classical

New music from the nonagenarian Crumb finds him breaking new ground and supervising a superb realization of his work.

— James Manheim

Andreas Scholl / Edin Karamazov

Canciones: Bach, Brouwer

Aparte

Classical

A definite oddball entry in Scholl's catalog reveals his ability to do almost anything.

— James Manheim

Dima Slobodeniouk / Lahti Symphony Orchestra

Scenes from the Kalevala: Klavmi, Sibelius, Madetoja, Pylkkänen

BIS

Classical

Largely unknown Finnish works inspired by the Kalevala epic are impressively performed.

— James Manheim

Cappella Nova / Alan Tavener

Sir James MacMillan: Consecration

Linn Records

Classical

MacMillan is well served by the choir Cappella Nova in these often-performed but mostly never-recorded works.

— James Manheim

Marin Alsop

Hindemith: Symphony 'Mathis der Maler'; Nusch-Nuschi; Tänze; Sancta Susana

Naxos

Classical

A very promising start, with crackling and sharp Hindemith, to Alsop's tenure with the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony.

— James Manheim

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