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September 29, 2023
Autumn Variations
Atlantic / East West
An album-length collaboration with the National's Aaron Dessner emphasizes mellow, melancholy vibes.
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Dookie [30th Anniversary Edition]
Reprise
Adolescent, snotty, and super-catchy songs that gleefully updated punk for a new generation, the album is expanded here by demos, outtakes, and two live shows.
Sit Down for Dinner
Section1
The trio bring their elegant, mysterious music down to earth with a fuller, richer sound and songs that savor the moment.
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Wake of the Flood [50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition]
Grateful Dead / Rhino
The 50th anniversary edition of the band's sixth, transitional studio album includes previously unreleased demos as well as an entire live set from 1973.
Again
Warp
The project's restlessly creative tenth album revisits the music of Daniel Lopatin's young adulthood with equal amounts of ambition and emotion.
Isn't It Now?
Domino
With help from D'Angelo producer Russell Elevado, this experimental pop troupe continue the inspiration they rekindled on their 2022 return to form Time Skiffs.
Falling or Flying
FAMM
Decamped to her native Walsall, the singer/songwriter returns to open up her sound on the follow-up to her Mercury Prize-nominated debut.
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Southeastern [10th Anniversary Edition]
Southeastern Records
A 10th anniversary remaster with collections of demos and a live set.
Love Lines
BMG / BMG Rights Management
A potent and expertly crafted set of love (in all its many forms) songs that play to all the artist's strengths.
Stratosphere
Numero
The band's first album is sad, subdued lo-fi indie that folds in elements of shoegaze, sadcore, and noise rock to create something timeless and real.
Ain't No Price on Happiness: The Thom Bell Studio Recordings 1972-1979
SoulMusic
Coinciding with their Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction, this boxed set features expanded editions of the group's eight LPs produced by Thom Bell.
Various Artists
Disco Discharge Presents Box of Sin
Edsel
Covering almost the full spectrum of 1980s post-disco, this five-disc set features the likes of Aretha, Dusty, Liza, Donna, Whitney, and of course Frankie.
Daydreamer
Captured Tracks
Continuing its predecessor's '80s pop inclinations, the singer's Wild Nothing-produced fourth LP revisits longing diaries from her early teens.
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Space Ritual [50th Anniversary Edition]
Atomhenge
This massive 11-disc package offers exhaustive evidence of the band's early period, showcasing remastered sound and many bonus concerts.
Soft Fascination
Fire Records
The band's sixth album emphasizes their experimentation with raw hybrids of dream pop, dance music, and noise-rock.
Space-Time Dreamtime: The Four Dimensional Music of Lori Vambe
Strut
Compilation of music from the avant-garde, London-based Zimbabwean drummer and experimental instrument maker.
Instrumentals JID019
Jazz Is Dead
The killer second-season finale by JID's creators re-records music from their sessions with Jean Carne and Lonnie Liston Smith.
Perspective
Planet Mu
Original electronic versions of Jerrilynn Patton's Pulitzer Prize-nominated collaboration with Third Coast Percussion.
Queen of Time
Kill Rock Stars
Her breezily intricate, style-shifting Kill Rock Stars debut faces adversity with warmth and wisdom (and guests like Billy Strings and Jerry Douglas).
Coin Coin Chapter Five: In the Garden
Constellation
The composer reflects on reproductive rights, chronicling inequality in Black women's pregnancies from an ancestor's tragic story to the reversal of Roe v. Wade.
Empire Electric
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
Less overtly academic than his two previous albums, Julian Saporiti pairs vivid global folk-pop with experimental production.
The Rat Road
Save Yourself
The enigmatic producer's third album is his most sprawling, with Toro y Moi, Teezo Touchdown, and George Riley among his guests.
Various Artists
Into Tomorrow: The Spirit of Mod 1983-2000
Cherry Red
A well-researched and compelling collection that traces all the wide-ranging avenues the mod sound traveled down after the Jam spilt up in 1982.
Reconnaissance: Kaija Saariaho Choral Music
BIS
An album of inventive small choral works makes a fine memorial to Saariaho.
William Byrd: My Ladye Nevells Booke
Brilliant Classics
Clean performances of a Byrd publication rarely recorded in full.
Sounds and Sweet Airs: A Shakespeare Songbook
BIS
An unusually broad selection of Shakespeare songs finds ideal exponents.
Jennifer Higdon: Duo Duel; Concerto for Orchestra
Naxos
This performance does full justice to the brilliant percussion writing and marvelous orchestration characteristic of this composer.
Oriente Lux: Dialogue des âmes
Alia Vox
A live concert from Paris in support of refugees, mixing Mediterranean/Near Eastern and European performers.