Featured New Album Releases

Nick Cave / Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds

Wild God

Play It Again Sam

Pop/Rock

After two albums of mourning, the master songwriter finds a stark but very real light at the end of the tunnel.

— Mark Deming

Laurie Anderson

Amelia

Nonesuch

Pop/Rock, Avant-Garde

The avant-garde musician and storyteller reimagines Amelia Earhart's last flight, with inconsistent results.

— Mark Deming

Oasis

Definitely Maybe [30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition]

Big Brother

Pop/Rock

The 30th Anniversary of this instant-classic debut includes remastered tracks and previously unreleased recordings, mixed by Noel Gallagher and Callum Marinho.

Ty Segall

Love Rudiments

Drag City

Pop/Rock

A thoughtful and surprisingly musical album that details the rise and fall of a romance using only percussion instruments.

— Tim Sendra

Tycho

Infinite Health

Mom + Pop Music

Electronic, Pop/Rock

Scott Hansen revisits some of his earlier production methods on one of his most rhythmically focused efforts.

— Paul Simpson

Seefeel

Everything Squared

Warp

Electronic

An EP-length Warp return from Mark Clifford and company that puts a modern twist on their intoxicating '90s output.

— Andy Kellman

Shemekia Copeland

Blame It on Eve

Alligator Records

Blues, Pop/Rock

Recorded in Nashville with producer Will Kimbrough, this star-studded date focuses hard on the blues in everyday life.

— Thom Jurek

Big Sean

Better Me Than You

Def Jam

Rap

Detroit rapper gradually becomes more mature on his sixth studio album, introducing new lyrical themes of family and generational struggle.

— TiVo Staff

Jana Mila

Chameleon

New West

Pop/Rock

The Dutch singer/songwriter evokes nuanced melodicists like Madison Cunningham and Kacey Musgraves on her Nashville-recorded full-length debut.

— Marcy Donelson

Duke Robillard

Roll With Me

Stony Plain

Blues, Jazz, R&B

The guitar giant completes an album 20 years in the making as his final Stony Plain outing.

— Thom Jurek

Jon Hopkins

Ritual

Domino

Electronic

A patiently evolving suite that gradually works its way towards spiritual transcendence.

— Paul Simpson

Fire Engines

Chrome Dawns

Cherry Red

Pop/Rock

Comprehensive collection that gathers the full studio output and two Peel Sessions from this funky, chaotic band of 1980s Scottish post-punk.

— Fred Thomas

Steve Wynn

Make It Right

Fire Records

Pop/Rock

One of America's best rock songwriters is in great form on his first solo album in 14 years.

— Mark Deming

Enumclaw

Home in Another Life

Run for Cover Records

Pop/Rock

The Tacoma alt-rockers' louder, angstier, more collaborative second LP is still powered by the anxious introspections of leader Aramis Johnson.

— Marcy Donelson

Tigran Hamasyan

The Bird of a Thousand Voices

Believe / Believe Recordings / Naïve

Avant-Garde, Classical, Electronic, Jazz

The Armenian composer and keyboardist offers a kaleidoscopic masterwork that cuts across and joins classical, pop, metal, and prog.

— Thom Jurek

Dorothy Carter

Troubadour

Drag City

Folk, New Age

The 1976 debut LP from the folksinger and master of the hammered dulcimer and psaltery.

— Paul Simpson

Los Bitchos

Talkie Talkie

City Slang

Pop/Rock

The cosmopolitan instrumental rock foursome sound tighter and more in command on a sophomore LP for your groove-heavy party needs.

— Marcy Donelson

Tab Benoit

I Hear Thunder

Whiskey Bayou

Blues

After an 11-year break from recording, the Houma, Louisiana bluesman re-teams with Anders Osborne and delivers ten examples of funkified gritty blues.

— Thom Jurek