Featured New Releases for
June 23, 2023
Anti-
The prolific singer/songwriter offers a distant sequel of sorts to his earlier highlight Transistor Radio.
Red Bull Records
The singer/songwriter and Strokes guitarist meditates on the past with songs that embrace life's complexities with a sense of adventure.
Atlantic
A warm, sun-soaked homage to the group's late friend, filmmaker Chris Black.
ATO
A warm and casual collaboration that serves as a loving tribute to the late Bobbie Nelson.
Fire Records
The band's brilliant debut album of malevolent psychedelic noise rock is joined here by a wealth of extras, including never-before-released live recordings.
Atlantic
A moody and muted divorce album that's at its best when the murk lifts.
Ear Music
The pop craftsman who's unafraid to take chances leaps another step closer to a full-on synth pop reboot on this coldly intimate, deeply felt album.
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Transgressive
The duo's spooky, electronics-heavy score for the Netflix series about warring witches is as genuine and creative as any of the pair's albums.
Audika
Another posthumous excursion into the archives of this boundless musician unearths previously unheard material closest in style to his minimal 1986 masterstroke World of Echo.
Atlantic / Rhino Atlantic
This handsome box set offers an essential reassessment of the final seven albums the bassist, composer, and bandleader recorded between 1973 and 1979.
Easy Eye Sound
Hard luck, trouble, and some witty contemplation of prejudice from this Korean-American blues phenom.
Mute
Michael Gira seems interested in pushing the band back into weirder territory following the more reflective 2019 effort leaving meaning.
Ropeadope
The belated return of the Brazilian composer and percussionist as a bandleader is full of killer chops and delightful surprises.
Bar/None Records
The fourth album from this San Francisco indie rock quartet continues their mélange of disparate styles and quick-shifting genre experiments.
Where It's At Is Where You Are
The Portland duo build on their debut with a more varied and undeniably melodic follow-up.
Drag City
After a few solo albums of gentle, lonely Americana, the Wand bandleader shifts course drastically in favor of greasy, layered guitar riffs and hard-rocking weirdness.
Brownswood
The Manchester ensemble ups the ante on their sophomore date by adding street soul, acid jazz, funk, and more to their mix.
Thrill Jockey
Sprawling improv and cosmic Americana from a trio of longtime Chicago music scene staples.
Merge
An outstanding third album from these smart Australian punks that often deals with the reality of living with mental illness.
Various Artists
Grapefruit
62 songs, both famous and obscure, from the era when the Marshall stack was born and psychedelia turned heavy.
Abstract Logix
On their first studio album in 46 years, the quintet offer an updated sound to carry their transcendent global fusion to both old and new listeners.
Strawberry / Strawberry Records
Lovingly curated anthology of the British crooner's final years at EMI.
Warner Classics
A far-ranging collection of works under and around the minimalist umbrella situates the tradition in a broad context.
Nonesuch
The epic tale of the Divina Commedia is given new life in the first ballet by composer Adès.
Chandos
A wonderful tribute to a French pedagogue who wrote truly virtuosic neoclassic music in the middle of the 20th century.
Carolyn Sampson / Martyn Brabbins / City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra / University of Birmingham Voices
Hyperion
An impressive reading of the Stanford Requiem, a work that is holding up extremely well.
Toccata Classics
Limpid music by a rarely heard late Counter-Reformation composer, beautifully performed.
Ricercar
An impressive release that devotes itself in detail to late medieval and Renaissance instrumental music.