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August 25, 2023
Haunted Mountain
4AD
The Big Thief guitarist's third LP is again highlighted by poetic lyrics, charming melodies, an A-plus live-in-studio band, and disarming sincerity.
Perfect Saviors
Sargent House
A near-perfect distillation of the Detroit art-punk collective's maximalist pop that swaps discord for fist-pumping arena rock.
Jaguar II
Lovett Music / RCA
Long-anticipated debut album from a progressive R&B singer/songwriter known most for her Grammy-nominated work with Ariana Grande and Chloe x Halle.
Realms
Kill Rock Stars
The former B-52s singer's vibrant second solo album captures a turning point in her life with buoyant synth-pop and gauzy dream-pop reveries.
Jump for Joy
Merge
M.C. Taylor signs up for the fight to be happy and grateful on this exercise in the power of cautious optimism.
Road
Ear Music
This set of energetic, guitar-heavy rockers inspired by life on the road finds Alice Cooper tapping into the sinister excitement of his earlier material.
Mommy
Third Man Records
The Nashville band's first album in 15 years skewers sexism and right-wing politics with strutting garage rock.
Leisureland
Tapete Records
An evocative, dreamlike concept album about England's seaside tourist towns.
The Window
Top Shelf Records / Topshelf
Without shunning their ambling alt-country side, the band's wounded fourth LP continues a shift toward harsher guitar tones and volatility.
Self Awareness Through Macrame
Rocks in Your Head
Sonny Smith and friends offer a catchy and delightfully resilient take on the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Spellling & the Mystery School
Sacred Bones
The genre-blurring art-pop songwriter and her touring band rework highlights from her first three albums.
Fly or Die Fly or Die Fly or Die ((world war))
International Anthem
The posthumous final album from the maverick trumpeter and singer is an exuberant encapsulation of her punk-jazz ethos.
Cometa
Sunnyside / Sunnyside Communications
A warm collaboration between the Brazilian singer and the acclaimed São Paulo ensemble.
The Algorithm
Golden Robot Records
Another late-era highlight from the hard-hitting post-industrial vets that marries catchy tunes with pointed sociopolitical commentary.
Oumuamua
Jazz Refreshed
The British quartet's debut full-length blends '70s jazz-funk and fusion with hip-hop, smooth jazz, and spacey funk.
I'd Be Lying if I Said I Didn't Care
Arts & Crafts / Communion / Real Kind
The intricately self-produced, disheartened follow-up to 2020's All That Emotion is an exercise in writing more candidly that pays off.
Timba a la Americana
Blue Note
On his Blue Note debut, the Cuban pianist and a killer band weave Latin jazz, post-bop, blues, French chanson, and global funk.
Disharmonium: Nahab
Debemur Morti
The second volume in the band's Disharmonium series is more experimental, consistent, and and expansive than its predecessor.
Compton's Finest
Savant
Hard-swinging yet still romantic debut from the West Coast-bred, New York-based drummer.
Left Hand
Captured Tracks
Guests Brittany Howard and Julien Baker join a relentlessly affirming, widescreen alt-pop LP that nearly leaves earlier folk-rock proclivities behind.
Goddess Energy
Daughter / Father / Father/Daughter Records
The second LP from Seattle's witty punk supergroup is packed with simple, engaging melodies, breathy harmonies, and clever fun.
Bernard Herrmann: Suite from Wuthering Heights; Echoes for Strings
Chandos
A suite from Hermann's gigantic opera effectively introduces its virtues.
What Remains: Roukens, Reich, Messiaen, Perotin, Machaut, Gesualdo
Rubicon
The string quartet medium is used as a philosophical-investigational tool.
Rachmaninoff: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 3; Isle of the Dead
Deutsche Grammophon
Superb Rachmaninov symphonies are ensconced in a deep tradition running back to the composer himself.
Butterfly Lovers
Sony Classical
A star violinist in a work, and more so a specific performance, that truly falls in between two cultures.
Mozart: Recital
Steinway & Sons
An extraordinary Mozart program mixes unknown works with fresh readings of well-worn sonatas.
8-Track
New Focus Recordings
Contemporary cello works expanding on the possibilities of Steve Reich's Cello Counterpoint.