Jimmy Buffett

Equal Strain on All Parts

Sun Records

Pop/Rock

A Pirate says farewell with a lively, joyous collection of songs that highlight his enduring charms.

— Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Van Morrison

Accentuate the Positive

Virgin

Pop/Rock

A swinging, soulful tribute to the early days of rock & roll.

— Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Bob Marley / Bob Marley & the Wailers

Catch a Fire [50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition]

Island / UMR

Reggae

This deluxe edition adds the first official release for Live at The Paris Theatre, London and a disc of alternate/extended/instrumental versions of album tracks.

Marnie Stern

The Comeback Kid

Joyful Noise

Pop/Rock

On her first album in ten years, this guitar virtuoso sounds positive and self-assured without losing the controlled frenzy that made her early work pop.

— Fred Thomas

Matmos

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Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

Electronic

The duo's collages of Smithsonian Folkways' non-musical recordings celebrate the label's 75th anniversary and how we document and reframe the past.

— Heather Phares

Jason Aldean

Highway Desperado

Broken Bow

Country

The brooding country crooner tries a couple of variations on his signature sound, including co-writing for the first time since 2009.

— Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Drop Nineteens

Hard Light

Wharf Cat Records

Pop/Rock

Arriving 31 years after Delaware, the band's third album delivers mellow, thoughtful shoegaze that makes peace with the past.

— Heather Phares

King Creosote

I Des

Domino / Universal

Pop/Rock

The celebrated Scottish singer/songwriter returns with a wild, ambitious set that marries folk with lush synth pop and drone music.

— Timothy Monger

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The Twits

Matador

Pop/Rock

The trio's second album of 2023 adds further depth to its shifting, brooding, aloof-yet-urgent take on indie rock.

— Heather Phares

Budgie / Jacknife Lee / Lol Tolhurst

Los Angeles

Play It Again Sam

Pop/Rock

Intense, drum-heavy, and gripping post-new wave and alternative songs made by members of the Cure and Siouxsie and the Banshees.

— Tim Sendra

Actress

LXXXVIII

Ninja Tune

Electronic

Darren Cunningham's eighth mystifying album serves another generous batch of purposefully askew dancefloor mutations and crystalline ambient pieces.

— Andy Kellman

Skyway Man

Flight of the Long Distance Healer

Mama Bird Recording Co.

Pop/Rock

James Wallace (aka Skyway Man) delivers another endearing and offbeat set of celestial pop songs for the Psilocybin Age.

— James Christopher Monger

Christian Kjellvander

Hold Your Love Still

Tapete Records

Pop/Rock

The singer/songwriter's second album of the pandemic is an outward-looking one whose grim appraisals are accompanied by moments of hope.

— Marcy Donelson

FIZZ

The Secret to Life

Decca

Pop/Rock

The exuberant and artful debut from the U.K. indie pop supergroup.

— Matt Collar

Hilary Woods

Acts of Light

Sacred Bones

Pop/Rock, Avant-Garde, Electronic

The former JJ72 bassist leaves song structure behind on a set of spooky, drone-based dirges.

— Marcy Donelson

Will Anderson / Hotline TNT

Cartwheel

Third Man Records

Pop/Rock

The second album from this Brooklyn band marries top-volume shoegaze to rust-belt indie melancholy.

— Fred Thomas

All Get Out

All Get Out

Equal Vision

Pop/Rock

On their sixth set, the reinvigorated South Carolina outfit streamlines their sound from the emo old days to accessible indie rock.

— Neil Z. Yeung

Brian Auger / Jim Beard / Randy Brecker / Justin Chancellor / Helios Creed / DJ Magic Mike / John Etheridge / Marty Friedman / The Fusion Syndicate / Jerry Goodman / Steve Hillage / Alphonso Johnson / Percy Jones / Tony Kaye / Scott Kinsey / Robby Krieger / Angelo Moore / Steve Morse / Fernando Perdomo / Billy Sherwood / Asaf Sirkis / Chester Thompson / Theo Travis / Chad Wackerman / Jah Wobble

Beautiful Horizon

Cleopatra / Purple Pyramid

Jazz, Pop/Rock

A studio supergroup with a top-shelf cast releases its second distinctive, musically ambitious full-length a fortnite after its last.

— Thom Jurek

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THIS IS NOT AN EXIT

Hardly Art

Pop/Rock

An anxious and earworm-heavy merger of alt-pop and dance-rock characterizes an auspicious debut from a duo who got their start writing for others.

— Marcy Donelson

Joey Alexander

Continuance

Mack Avenue

Jazz

The pianist continues to come into his own on this soulful album with trumpeter Theo Croker.

— Matt Collar

Swedish Radio Choir / Kaspars Putniņš

Schumann: Missa Sacra

BIS

Classical

Exceptional performances of little-known choral works by Robert Schumann.

— James Manheim

Quynh Nguyen / Stephen Barlow / Rieko Aizawa / London Symphony Orchestra

Chihara: Concerto-Fantasy for Piano and Orchestra; Bagatelles; Reveries; Ami

Naxos

Classical

A lovely album of works epitomizing Asian-Western dichotomies.

— James Manheim

Hélène Grimaud / Konstantin Krimmel

For Clara

Deutsche Grammophon

Classical

A superb Kreisleriana marks these performances of a trio of works mostly connected to Clara Schumann.

— James Manheim

Emerson String Quartet / Barbara Hannigan / Bertrand Chamayou

Infinite Voyage

Alpha

Classical

Valedictory release from this legendary string quartet mixes rigor and surprises.

— James Manheim

City Opera Vancouver / Mary Chun

Alice Ping Yee Ho: Chinatown

Leaf Music

Classical

Remarkable deep fusion of Chinese and Western elements in a tale of Chinese immigration to Canada.

— James Manheim

St. John's College Choir, Cambridge / Andrew Nethsingha / George Herbert

New Millennium

Signum Classics

Classical

A fine, possibly valedictory release from the longtime Cambridge conductor.

— James Manheim

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