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October 13, 2023
Formentera II
Metric
The group dive back into the gloom of the previous album with the same bruised tenderness and desperation, this time occasionally letting in some sunshine.
Performances
Saddle Creek Records
Elizabeth Powell's fifth album questions long-standing ideas and relationships with equally comforting and challenging songs.
Something to Give Each Other
Capitol / EMI / EMI Records
Liberated third set from the Australian pop singer that embraces freedom and identity.
Water Made Us
Jagjaguwar
Philosophical and personal examinations of romantic relationships that expand the singer/songwriter and poet's stylistic palette.
Behind the Tea Chronicles
Dwitza / MPS
The "Colossus of Rio" chose a Brazilian band, recorded horns in Detroit, vocals in L.A., and strings in Prague for his most ambitious recording.
Tomorrow's Fire
Polyvinyl
Ella Williams' melancholic third release is both cathartic and captivating.
Goodnight, God Bless, I Love U, Delete
Warner Music / Warner Records
Chilly, synth-heavy sophomore effort from Shaun Lopez and Chino Moreno's electronic side project.
Sample the Sky
One Little Independent Records / One Little Indian
The British singer, songwriter, saxophonist, and producer delivers a debut full-length that imaginatively uses technology to ruminate on nature.
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To the Faithful Departed [Deluxe Edition]
Island / UMR
On this Deluxe Edition reissue, the surviving members of the band
collected a wealth of demos, outtakes, b-sides, and live versions from
the era.
I Killed Your Dog
Mexican Summer
Taja Cheek follows her 2021 breakthrough with a dreamy, contradiction-riddled record reflecting on the heartbreak of being hurt by loved ones.
Uncle John's Band
ECM
The guitarist and trio offer two discs of covers and originals reflecting their live persona for the first time in a recording studio.
Rewind Forward
UMe / Universal
A charmingly cozy EP highlighted by a collaboration with Benmont Tench and Mike Campbell.
Some Kinda Love: Performing the Music of the Velvet Underground
Bar/None Records
One band of nervy East Coast individualists pays loving tribute to another on their first-ever live album.
Buy This Now!
Curation Records
With the Lemon Twigs as co-producers, the band delivers a brighter, tighter version of their unabashedly fun power pop.
Song Machine
Goner Records
America's favorite garage-punk family band gets hooked on 1970s pop and likes it on their third album.
Destroyer
Kranky
The EVI master channels darker energies on his third Kranky release, this time incorporating the frayed wheezing of a restored pump organ.
Crazymad, For Me
CMATBABY
Ireland's aspiring Global Pop Star gets her heart broken and has a lot to say about it on her excellent second album.
Foreign Smokes
Drag City
Raga-influenced cosmic drone from Chicago scene mainstays Bill MacKay and Cooper Crain.
Are We There Yet?
BMG / BMG Rights Management
A deeply felt soul and old-school R&B-inspired album from the British pop icon.
Fertile State
Slumberland
The noteworthy debut of an Oakland-based duo who submerge bittersweet, C-86-inspired pop in blankets of noise.
Compadres
Warner Music
A mini-LP filled with duets showcases the savvy country singer's versatility.
Echolocation
AUM Fidelity
The auspicious debut album by this New York-based quartet crisscrosses jazz-rock, free improv, angular funk, and groove.
Midnight Junction
Ear Music
The road-dog blues-rock guitarist returns with his first album in a decade and shows remarkable maturity.
Romantic Music
Felte
Former members of Abe Vigoda debut with a dissonant take on the dingier post-punk of bands like Echo & the Bunnymen and the Jesus and Mary Chain.
Franz Liszt: Transcendental Études
BIS
Rendering of the Études d'exécution transcendantes puts the emphasis on the "exécution."
Overtures from Finland
Chandos
Finnish orchestral works from Sibelius' time reveal that his general style was not his alone.
Bruckner: Symphony No. 8
Alpha
The newest volume in this symphonic survey offers what some consider the height of the Romantic symphony.
Reinbert de Leeuw: Der nächtliche Wanderer; Abschied
Challenge Classics
Complex but evocative scores memorialize this composer and conductor, who died in 2020.
Brahms Songbook, Vol. 1: Romanzen aus Magelone, Regenlie-Zyklus
Linn Records
Sharply characterized songs mark this performance of Brahms' not-a-song-cycle.
Claudio Monteverdi: Vespro della Beata Vergine
Harmonia Mundi
A glorious recording of the Vespers, bringing to life all the strands Monteverdi wove together in this masterpiece.