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February 3, 2023
Cycle Through
Barsuk
Fizzy sweet and heartfelt companion EP to the band's 2020 album, Never Not Together.
Dance Kobina
Blue Note
On his third Blue Note leader date, the veteran drummer/composer links jazz, Latin, and African music by focusing his attention on guaguancó.
Requiem Mass
Loma Vista
Deluxe edition that includes five tracks recorded live at the Hollywood United Methodist Church.
Get Up Sequences, Pt. 2
Memphis Industries
Typically thrilling performances and insistently hooky songs from the long-running group, played here with extra verve -- and emotion.
Cookin' with Jaws and the Queen: The Legendary Prestige Cookbook Albums
Concord / Craft Recordings / Craft Records
Soulful anthology of saxophonist Davis' classic 1958 albums with organist Scott.
The Candle and the Flame
Tapete Records
The eighth album from this former Go-Between is a heavy but beautiful reflection on family, aging, and wisdom gained as life goes on.
Heavy Heavy
Ninja Tune
Joy and purpose amid turbulence are conveyed throughout the Scottish trio's first album in five years.
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Avenue 66
Outer-limits electronic experiments from the RHCP guitarist, vastly different from any of his other work.
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
Legacy / Sony Music
Weird Al's over-the-top biopic gets a polished, dramatic score along with the star's expected funny stuff.
Colours of Air
Kranky
Using a 19th-century pipe organ as a source, the composers deliver a rainbow's worth of ambient pieces ranging from soft to all-consuming.
My 21st Century Blues
Human Re Sources
Hard-fought, singularly candid and brave debut album from the British pop singer/songwriter, featuring the number one U.K. pop hit "Escapism."
Eye of I
Anti-
This follow-up to the carefully considered, award-winning Jesup Wagon showcases the immediacy and range in the saxophonist's musical imagination.
Various Artists
Ears of the People: Ekonting Songs from Senegal and the Gambia
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
The first-ever Western collection devoted to players of the ekonting, a Senagambian precursor to the modern banjo.
Live at Levon's!
Royal Potato Family
Recorded in 2019, this electrifying set finds the married roots duo delivering favorites, covers, and unissued songs to an adoring audience.
No Hashish, No Change Money, No Saki Saki
Three Lobed
A freewheeling, bewildering early recording from the Philadelphia psych stalwarts, originally self-issued as a cassette in 1993.
The Mule Peasants' Revolt of 12,067
Upset the Rhythm
The English quartet deconstructs punk rock on this messy, chaotic collection of improvised weirdness.
Élisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre: Judith & Sémélé
Evidence / Evidence Classics
Fine renditions that bring out the distinctive qualities of de la Guerre's still-underappreciated music.
Identity
Warner Classics
A low-wattage but absorbing program of French and French-influenced music from pianist Miura.
Codex Las Huelgas: Bestiaire et Symboles du Divin, 1300-1340
Alia Vox
Savall and company examine a single medieval manuscript with several intriguing features.
Arnold: Clarinet Concerto No. 1; Philharmonic Concerto; Divertimento No. 2; Etc.
Chandos
A wonderful survey of Arnold works from various periods of his career, with a masterful Clarinet Concerto No. 1.
Dvorák: Symphonies Nos. 8 & 7
Philharmonia Records
Standout Dvořák symphonies from the Philharmonia Zürich and its new conductor Gianandrea Noseda.