Featured New Releases for
June 21, 2024

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United Artist / Universal / Untied Artist Productions
Reuniting with Eurythmic Dave Stewart, the veteran singer sticks to his Philly soul wheelhouse.
- Stephen Thomas Erlewine
CRASH
Atlantic
R&B
A varied, less personal, and enjoyable fourth album from the singer/songwriter, joined by an almost entirely new cast of producers.
- Andy Kellman
Proxy MusicEditors' Choice
Storysound Records
The great heroine of British folk-rock recruits a team of artists to sing her songs, and they do so beautifully.
- Mark Deming
Texicali
Yep Roc
Two heroes of American roots music team up for a second time in a pairing that complements both sides.
- Mark Deming
Good TogetherEditors' Choice
Fantasy
The Brooklyn-by-way-of-Boston soul-pop outfit's breezy, feel-good eighth studio album.
- Matt Collar
From the Mars Hotel [50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition]
Grateful Dead
This 50th Anniversary Edition of the band's solid seventh studio album includes previously unreleased live concert recordings from the same time period.
- Fred Thomas
9 Sad Symphonies
Kill Rock Stars
Featuring an orchestral pop inspired by vintage Hollywood musicals, the typically irreverent Brit turns in her most earnest set yet.
- Marcy Donelson
Water Still Flows
Third Man Records
On his fourth long-player, the Nashville-based ambient composer adds the tension of doom metal to his powerful, dreamy aesthetic.
- Thom Jurek
Zinc Alloy and the Hidden Riders of Tomorrow [Deluxe Edition]Editors' Choice
Edsel
This 50th anniversary reissue Contains "The Alternate Zinc Alloy: Change", a bonus disc of 24 fascinating 'work-in-progress' versions and demos.
Live in America
What's Yr Rupture?
Visceral documents of both a radio set and a rowdy club show from this endlessly exciting Australian garage-soul-punk band.
- Fred Thomas
Cemetery Classics
Sonic Cathedral
The project's engaging second album focuses on elliptical pop that evokes artists as varied as Panda Bear, Daft Punk, and Depeche Mode.
- Heather Phares
Petty Country: A Country Music Celebration of Tom Petty
Various Artists
Big Machine Records
A country-leaning tribute to Tom Petty balances imaginative reinterpretations and faithful renditions of familiar hits.
- Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Tropical Man
Diamond West
After working on Rogê's Curyman in 2023, MSB bring him back for a full, funky, MPB collaboration on this EP.
- Thom Jurek
WeirdOsEditors' Choice
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Speedy Wunderground
The sax-and-drums duo's brazen, fiery debut album is a thrilling listen for those who love music that's as unpretentious as it is inventive.
- Heather Phares
Reflections, Vol. 2: Black DecelerantEditors' Choice
RVNG
Debut effort from an ambient jazz duo who describe their music as a meditation on Black being and non-being.
- Paul Simpson
A Single History: 1991-2001
Numero / Numero Group
Expanded version of a singles compilation focused on non-album tracks from this foundational d.i.y. noise punk trio, originally released in 1999.
- Fred Thomas
The Healer
Thrill Jockey
Genre-defying, patience-requiring post-metal expressing dystopian destruction and rebirth.
- Paul Simpson
TimeEditors' Choice
BBE
Reissued in a definitive vinyl edition, Time is not only a Detroit jazz classic, but an iconic, wildly original classic of the jazz-funk era.
- Thom Jurek
Brasil
Candid
Forty years after the duo brought Brazilian musicians to L.A. to record Harlequin, the pair traveled to Brazil to record its sequel.
- Thom Jurek
FireEditors' Choice
Sumerian Records
Triumphant comeback album from the pioneering Canadian metal outfit.
- Neil Z. Yeung
Stung!
Spinning / Spinning Top
The tenth album from this Australian psych-pop band integrates '80s synth pop influences into their never-straightforward sound.
- Fred Thomas
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: The First Vienna Concertos - Piano Concertos Nos. 11, 12, 13
Challenge Classics
Fortepiano-styled Mozart on a modern piano has considerable elegance and verve.
- James Manheim
Eternity
Naïve
Works loosely linked by the concept of eternity from a married duo piano couple that work together with notable closeness.
- James Manheim
Mendelssohn-Bach: Matthäus-Passion
Analekta
The first recording of a new edition of Mendelssohn's fascinating 1841 version of Bach's Matthäus-Passion.
- James Manheim
Russian Variations
Hyperion
Novel Russian variation sets are mostly not often played and receive worthwhile revivals here.
- James Manheim
Shostakovich: String Quartets 9 & 15
Signum Classics
Technically sharp Shostakovich playing works especially well in the grim but exacting String Quartet No. 15, Op. 144.
- James Manheim
Alexander Zemlinsky: Eine florentinische Tragödie
BR Klassik
An intense, somewhat lurid adaptation of an Oscar Wilde play benefits from the heated performance of the trio of soloists.
- James Manheim
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