Featured New Releases for
May 20, 2022
Virgin
Van Morrison marries his anger about the COVID-19 pandemic era to jaunty R&B rhythms or slow, soulful grooves.
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Legacy / Sony Music
This reissue resurrects precious few tracks from Mick Jones' personal mix of the legendary Clash album.
Anti-
Two friends and mutual admirers lift one another in song in this glorious live recording from June 2011.
Secretly Canadian
With their raw, volatile indie rock in hand, the Brits delve deeper into existential dread on the follow-up to the Mercury Prize-nominated Every Bad.
Thrill Jockey
Matmos' reimagining of the works of the Polish experimental composer also pays tribute to the duo's skill at invention and reinvention.
Yep Roc
Stuck at home, the smokey-voiced indie folk troubadour ponders the uncertain state of the world in the early 2020s.
Deutsche Grammophon
Remixes of Moby's orchestral retrospective Reprise, which manage to approach familiar material from a variety of fresh perspectives.
Schoolkids
Scrappy audio of a small but spirited gig early on in the career of these New Zealand jangle pop giants.
Relapse Records
A dense and rewarding work that's both mindful of the past and focused on the horizon.
Positive Jams
The Hold Steady frontman offers ten more short stories posing as songs that are honest, evocative, and powerfully effective.
Mute
The hypnotic debut album from Émilie Tiersen's project combines forward-looking electronics with the myths and traditions of Breton.
Company Records
The bloghouse pioneer's first album in 12 years is lighthearted yet resilient, offering a more sustainable version of her party-starting pop.
Mr. Bongo
Located dead center on the Venn diagram where nasty funk, atmospheric film scores, and spooky psychedelia meet, the band's debut album is a multi-layered delight.
Brainfeeder
Vocoder-equipped keyboardist returns with his highly energetic, feel-good third LP as a leader, joined by a large cast including Kamasi Washington.
Rough Trade
On their looser, identity-themed third album, Bridie Monds-Watson looks to '90s musical inspirations, employing a full band for the first time.
Domino / Weird World
A third set of eccentric, '70s-evoking chamber pop from the L.A. songwriter, who enlisted Dave Longstreth for string and woodwind arrangements.
Big Legal Mess Records
The debut album from this New Orleans singer/songwriter packages lyrics of hard luck and desperation in delicate, thoughtfully crafted Americana songs.
Debemur Morti
Inspired by the fiction of H.P. Lovecraft, this set approaches the formless and forceful using rearward glances to frame its futurist impulses.
Bureau B
A bouncy set recorded in the artist's Helsinki studio using only a tenor sax, flute, synth loops, and drum machines.
Thrill Jockey
Introspective, escapist meditations from Dewey Mahood, first issued as a limited cassette in late 2017.
Fat Possum Records
A superb acoustic album from the X frontman, full of the powerfully honest songs and evocative vocals that are his trademark.
Mack Avenue
The pianist comes into his own on this soulful and enveloping album of all-original post-bop.
Grand Jury Music
The Wichita-based singer returns with her third album of hooky, '90s-influenced indie pop.
Thrill Jockey
A brief set of tranquil, minimalist ambient pieces from the former Barn Owl guitarist.
Western Vinyl Records
Sean Hellfritsch evokes mid-'90s RPG soundtracks and nature program soundtracks on his most melodic, finely tuned release yet.
Fuzz Club Records
The Canadian singer/songwriter's sophomore LP is a sprawling collection of midtempo grooves and dense space rock layers.
L & H
The pianist/composer's second double-length set of musical settings is all instrumental and contains three holdovers from the first.
Onyx / Onyx Classics
Orchestral arrangements of Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel's songs show their inner ambitions in these fine performances by Reiss.
Deutsche Grammophon
The apparently indestructible Barenboim does beautifully with a meaty group of Romantic encores.
PentaTone Classics
A superb new opera about police violence and its effects finds a powerful musical language.
Chandos
Exceptionally fluent Mozart concertos, with superb sound capturing the orchestrational strides forward in this pair of works.
LAGQ Records
A flawlessly recorded collection of new works landing between classical music and jazz in various zones.
Arcana
An effective realization of the sparse mandolin concerto repertory by lively performer La Ragione.