Featured New Releases for
March 14, 2025
Fire Records
The band's stripped-down 11th album creates a mood of earthy tension with bracing acoustic tones.
Republic / Urban Republic Records
The English band's classic 2009 debut gets the orchestral treatment as part of the BBC Proms series.
AED Records
A typically thoughtful, melodically rich, and inspiring album that stands with the guitar pop icon's best work.
Matador
Incorporating industrial beats and dynamic arrangements, Haley Fohr charts a path between the club and the cosmos.
Sub Pop
The experimental noise-rap trio evoke cyberpunk as well as big beat, drum'n'bass, and electro on their most techno-shocked release.
Nettwerk
The duo blend '80s synth pop and disco hooks with a light psychedelia on their breezy fifth album.
Tapete Records
The legendary indie pop pioneers reunited after 40 years to release a debut record made up of jangling, melancholy songs delivered with graceful restraint.
Leiter
The conclusion of her travelogue triptych, the sitarist enlisted sarod master Alam Khan and producer/drummer Sarathy Korwar to assist.
Coheed and Cambria
The progressive rockers return with a remarkable chapter that looks backward and into the future simultaneously.
Fiction
The musician and producer makes an inspired return to prog on this two-suite set about viewing the earth and its people from space.
Lower Third
The U.K. band's third album is a glorious exercise in coherent chaos and delivers an abundance of edgy fun.
Doctor Bird
Compilation of tracks originally released as vinyl-only singles that showcases this British reggae producer's stylistic range, from dub to lovers rock to reggae disco-funk.
Numero Group
Numero Group expands the 1986 mini-album by a Scottish duo whose sound fell somewhere between coldwave, post-punk, and dream pop.
Ghostly International
Second album from Loraine James' ambient glitch side project, mainly created using analog equipment and field recordings.
Blue Note
On his fourth date for Blue Note, the guitarist and composer debuts a new band of all-stars to deliver future-forward jazz.
Bella Union
The post-punk group continue to refine their style of dark narratives, with an atmospheric touch by co-producer Graham Sutton.
Modern Harmonic
The one-time Velvet Underground chanteuse delivers a powerful performance despite an ill-fitting backing band.
Modern Harmonic
Long-buried late-'70s recordings of solo piano performances that range from free-form cosmic jazz to gentle renditions of standards.
Multiphonics Music
Stylistically adventurous trio album from the sonically mutable trombone virtuoso.
Pyroclastic Records
On their third duo offering, the pianist and guitarist engage in intricate, sometimes provocative improvisation inside detailed compositions.
BIS
Early string quartets from a Finnish master show various influences but already a characteristic voice.
SWR Music
Expert historically oriented Beethoven performances, with a marvelous reading of the composer's final violin sonata.
Deutsche Grammophon
A wonderful traversal of Ravel's complete piano music from a player who makes it seem effortless.
Harmonia Mundi
A flexible, lively performance that incorporates the famed Four Seasons into larger contexts.
Perfect Noise
Marvelous, little-known small religious works from Schütz's time, sung with great intensity by a newcomer.
Decca
A basic Palestrina survey, with some textured singing from a top small choir.