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February 16, 2024
This Is Me...Now
BMG / BMG Rights Management
The pop singer celebrates her reunion with old flame Ben Affleck on this concept album about their rekindled love.
Hole in My Head
Polyvinyl
A lean, nervy rock album that uses its mess and contradictions to its own advantage.
Big Anonymous
City Slang
The Swedish artist moves further from indie and pop sounds on this harrowing and starkly beautiful album about grief and survivor's guilt.
Be Right Here
3 Legged Records
Working again with producer Dave Cobb, the Southern rock outfit prove they can write solid songs as well as riffs.
Radio Sessions BBC 1996-2011
Tapete Records
Collection of radio sessions that includes tracks from the band's lost second album along with plenty of inspired and energetic indie rock brilliance.
Frustration
Numero
Remastered anthology collection of this obscure Long Island garage band who took their homespun psychedelia further out than most.
Should I Stay or Should I Go
PIAS
The group celebrate their 20th anniversary with theatrical, eclectic versions of songs by the Clash, Bauhaus, and Duran Duran.
Where we've been, Where we go from here
ATO
A notably impassioned debut by a Chicago duo who alternate desperate ballads, midtempo earworms, and nihilistic rockers to moving effect.
Love Is the Call
Cast Recordings
A sturdy, tuneful record that finds the trad-rockers staying true to the sound they developed at the peak of Britpop.
In Electric Time
International Anthem
Vibrant, blissful, and exploratory full-length crafted from two days' worth of improvisations at the Vintage Synthesizer Museum in Los Angeles.
Words Unspoken
ECM
In a career that spans six decades, the English saxophonist and his quartet create imaginative, canny conversations from the ether.
Springs Eternal
Tough Love
This ironically playful, song-based outing from the sometimes-wordless art rocker addresses topics like climate change, indoctrination, and heartbreak.
Various Artists
New Guitars in Town: Power Pop 1978-82
Cherry Red
Seventy-five tracks from the era when punk encouraged British pop to reclaim its concise and hooky glory.
Various Artists
Patterns on the Window: The British Progressive Pop Sounds of 1974
Grapefruit
This ongoing, year-by-year compilation explores the widening spectrum of sounds related to English glam, folk-rock, pub rock, and more circa 1974.
Strange Weather
Greenway / Ras
East L.A.'s champions of garage-psych dive into 1970s soft rock, with surprising but pleasing results.
On the Lips
Jagjaguwar
The Los Angeles whistler's debut is a delight of retro-lounge, exotica, and eerie instrumental pop.
Basilisk
Dischord Records
The Jawbox founder shows he's lost none of his strength, smarts, or imagination on his second solo album.
Operette: Wien, Berlin, Paris
Erato
A collection of operetta arias includes a number of forgotten gems.
Stravinsky: Violin Concerto; Scherzo à la russe; Apollon Musagète; Orchestral Suites
Chandos
Performance of Stravinsky's Violin Concerto in D major brims with neoclassic elegance.
Nikolaï Medtner: Les trois dernières sonates pour piano
ATMA Classique
Evocative readings of late Medtner sonatas, written after the composer's exile from the Soviet Union.
Miklós Rózsa: Overture to a Symphony Concert; Hungarian Serenade; Tripartita
Capriccio Records
Concert works by Rózsa reveal a strong kinship to his film scores.
Briggs: Hail, gladdening Light
Hyperion
Beautifully recorded in Paris, this release explores an unusual contemporary British composer.
Bruckner: Symphonie Nr. 7
BR Klassik
A Bruckner Seventh with steely control and architecture that immerses the audience in the work.