Red Hot Chili Peppers

Unlimited Love

Warner Records

Pop/Rock

The Californian funk-rock crew reunite with guitarist John Frusciante (again) for an all-out, jam-band journey.

— Neil Z. Yeung

Sondre Lerche

Avatars of Love

PLZ

Pop/Rock

A constantly surprising, alternately epic and intimate album from the songwriter that feels like a definitive artistic statement.

— Tim Sendra

Jon Spencer & the HITmakers / Jon Spencer

Spencer Gets It Lit

Bronzerat Records

Pop/Rock

The official debut from this post-Blues Explosion project leans to garage and noise rock influences while cutting a wiry groove.

— Mark Deming

Confidence Man

Tilt

I Oh You

Pop/Rock

Euphoric surge of '90s house-indebted dance anthems from this party-loving Australian quartet.

— Neil Z. Yeung

North Mississippi Allstars

Set Sail

New West

Pop/Rock

The Hill Siblings wed sultry Southern funk to soul, blues, and psychedelia on their most adventurous outing yet.

— Thom Jurek

Lightning in a Twilight Hour

Overwintering

Elefant

Pop/Rock

The group's second album adds British folk and American slowcore influences to their sad and beautiful sound with great success.

— Tim Sendra

Night Palace

Diving Rings

Park the Van

Pop/Rock

Unexpected production choices and ambitious orchestral pop arrangements join captivating songwriting on the dreamlike debut LP from this Athens/N.Y.C. group.

— Fred Thomas

Papercuts

Past Life Regression

Slumberland

Pop/Rock

Almost the equal of the band's career-defining Parallel Universe Blues, this is droning, melancholy, VU-influenced indie pop at its finest.

— Tim Sendra

Meshuggah

Immutable

Atomic Fire

Pop/Rock

After six long years, Sweden's metal innovators indulge their trademark sound while expanding its reach in several directions.

— Thom Jurek

Thomas Rhett

Where We Started

Valory

Country

Thomas Rhett pauses his Country Again double album to release this breezy, laid-back collection.

— Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Daryl Hall

Before After

Legacy / Sony Music

Pop/Rock

A lengthy, occasionally revelatory, double-disc retrospective of Daryl Hall's solo work.

— Stephen Thomas Erlewine

PUP

The Unraveling of Puptheband

Rise Records

Pop/Rock

On their major-label debut, the Toronto punks retain their manic, shambling energy while expanding their sonic palette.

— Timothy Monger

Chilly Gonzales / Plastikman

Consumed in Key [White Vinyl]

Turbo

Electronic

Chilly Gonzales adds piano accompaniment to Richie Hawtin's 1998 isolationist masterwork Consumed.

— Paul Simpson

µ-Ziq / Mike Paradinas

Goodbye

Planet Mu

Electronic

Mike Paradinas kicks off his busy 2022 release schedule with a return to high BPMs and wistful melodies.

— Paul Simpson

Christian Lee Hutson

Quitters

Anti-

Pop/Rock

The singer and songwriter moves between the bittersweet and the simply bitter on his artfully casual fourth album.

— Mark Deming

Pere Ubu

Nuke the Whales 2006-2014

Fire Records

Pop/Rock

Collects the darkly captivating tales inspired by literature, drama, and film that dominated the band's work in the late 2000s and early 2010s.

— Heather Phares

Tahiti 80

Here with You

Human Sounds

Pop/Rock

The French indie pop combo turn in their glossiest pop record to date.

— Timothy Monger

Gerald Clayton

Bells on Sand

Blue Note

Jazz

A deeply dreamlike and poetic album of duo and trio performances informed by the pianist's classical influences.

— Matt Collar

Iain Matthews

I Can't Fade Away: Rockburgh Years 1978-1984

Lemon

Pop/Rock, Folk

Six-disc box set that covers in depth the singer/songwriter's detour into new wave-influenced pop in the 1970s and '80s.

— Mark Deming

Pastor Champion

I Just Want to Be a Good Man

Luaka Bop

Religious

The lone album by the late, itinerant, guitar-slinging preacher stands as an outsider gospel masterpiece.

— Thom Jurek

Van Chamberlain

In the Sun

Very Jazzed

Pop/Rock

The debut album from this Brooklyn duo recalls both jangly early-2010s indie and touches of '90s alternative rock.

— Fred Thomas

Seabear

In Another Life

Morr Music

Pop/Rock

After a 12-year recording hiatus, the Sin Fang-led folk-rock/indie pop outfit returns all seven members for a satisfying set of breezy reflections.

— Marcy Donelson

Myra Melford / Myra Melford's Fire and Water Quintet

For the Love of Fire and Water

Rogue Art

Jazz, Avant-Garde

The recorded debut of the pianist's all-woman supergroup combines formal composition, scripted dialogue, and free improvisation.

— Thom Jurek

U.S. Highball

A Parkhead Cross of the Mind

Lame-O Records

Pop/Rock

The self-recording Glasgow duo offer up a punchier set of jangly, harmonic indie pop for a third LP that's all about hometown life.

— Marcy Donelson

Angela Hewitt

Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Op. 106 'Hammerklavier', Op. 111

Hyperion

Classical

Hewitt's fine Beethoven cycle concludes with a fresh look at the "Hammerklavier" and an Op. 111 that plays to her strengths.

— James Manheim

Laura van der Heijden / Jâms Coleman

Pohádka: Tales from Prague to Budapest

Chandos

Classical

A fine Chandos-label debut album by young cellist van der Heijen captures the narrative quality of these "pohádka," or stories.

— James Manheim

Magdalena Hoffmann

Nightscapes for Harp

Deutsche Grammophon

Classical

A beautiful harp recital, the debut from Hoffmann, brings unusual variety within a single theme.

— James Manheim

Nikolai Lugansky

Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos. 14 "Moonlight", 17 "The Tempest" & 23 "Appassionata"

Harmonia Mundi

Classical

Beethoven in the grand Russian tradition, by turns murky, lyrical, and extremely tumultuous.

— James Manheim

Apollo's Fire / Jeannette Sorrell

O Jerusalem! City of Three Faiths

Avie

Classical

Innovative and enjoyable collection touches not only on the three faiths but also the four old neighborhoods of Jerusalem.

— James Manheim

Peter Jablonski

Peter Jablonski plays Grazyna Bacewicz Piano Works

Ondine

Classical

Rarely played piano music of Bacewicz emerges as an important addition to the literature.

— James Manheim

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