Featured New Album Releases

Japanese Breakfast

For Melancholy Brunettes (& Sad Women)

Dead Oceans

Pop/Rock

Michelle Zauner's literate, darkly pearlescent fourth album with her band Japanese Breakfast.

— Matt Collar

Benny Blanco / Selena Gomez

I Said I Love You First

Friends Keep Secrets / Interscope / Polydor / SMG Music

Pop/Rock

The singer and producer team up to make an impressive and artistically bold modern pop record that details their budding romantic relationship.

— Tim Sendra

My Morning Jacket

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ATO

Pop/Rock

The eclectic Kentuckians hand production duties over to an outsider and show a new mastery of the studio on an endlessly enjoyable gem.

— Mark Deming

Rush

50

Mercury / UMR

Pop/Rock

This deluxe package is more like a total immersion in Rush's history, with unreleased material and video, than an anthology.

— Thom Jurek

Fucked Up

Someday

Get Better Records

Pop/Rock

The Canadian band's fourth (!) album cut in the space of 24 hours is another satisfying set of powerful, heartfelt punk.

— Mark Deming

Maya Delilah

The Long Way Round

Blue Note

Pop/Rock

Organically hushed and soulful debut from the London singer and guitarist.

— Matt Collar

Lonnie Holley

Tonky

Jagjaguwar

Pop/Rock, Avant-Garde

The visual artist and musician's second collaboration with producer Jacknife Lee covers similar ground as 2023's Oh Me Oh My.

— Paul Simpson

Annie and the Caldwells

Can't Lose My (Soul)

Luaka Bop

Religious, R&B

Inviting and often-funky gospel soul from a Mississippi family group led by one of the main voices of the Staples Jr. Singers.

— Andy Kellman

Macie Stewart

When the Distance Is Blue

International Anthem

Avant-Garde, Pop/Rock

On her International Anthem debut, the pianist and her collaborators seek out a nostalgic, unnameable longing through multivalent textures and improvisation.

— Thom Jurek

more eaze / claire rousay

no floor

Thrill Jockey

Electronic, Avant-Garde, Pop/Rock

Sublime piece of noisy ambient Americana from two prolific artists who both have origins in the San Antonio music scene.

— Paul Simpson

Various Artists

Motor City is Burning: A Michigan Anthology 1965-1972

Grapefruit / Grapefruit

Pop/Rock, R&B

Admirably diverse box set that collects classic Michigan rock and soul music, both famous and obscure.

— Mark Deming

Various Artists

Krautrock Eruption

Bureau B

Pop/Rock, Avant-Garde

A companion to Wolfgang Seidel's book of the same name, doubling as a catalog sampler for the reissue-heavy Bureau B label.

— Paul Simpson

The Great Learning Orchestra / Yoko Ono

Selected Recordings From Grape

Karlrecords

Pop/Rock, Avant-Garde

The global avant-garde collective creates sonic interpretations of the pieces from Yoko Ono's 1964 conceptual art book Grapefruit.

— Fred Thomas

Deacon Blue

The Great Western Road

Cooking Vinyl

Pop/Rock

Released during the band's 40th year, this album shows that their creativity, discipline, and openness continue to provide the foundation for excellent work.

— Thom Jurek

Dutch Interior

Moneyball

Fat Possum Records

Pop/Rock

The auspicious Fat Possum debut of a California collective who rotate songwriters through slowcore, country-rock, '90s lo-fi, and more.

— Marcy Donelson

Gnod / White Hills

Drop Out III

Thrill Jockey

Pop/Rock

Two prolific psych-rock groups revisit their earlier collaborations, unearthing previously unheard material.

— Paul Simpson

Ora the Molecule

Dance Therapy

Mute

Pop/Rock

The project's second album taps into the universal need for love and connection with sparkly, sensual disco-pop.

— Heather Phares

Jeffrey Lewis

The EVEN MORE Freewheelin' Jeffrey Lewis

Don Giovanni

Folk, Pop/Rock

The New York singer/songwriter and comic artist continues focusing on the joys and disappointments of growing older.

— Paul Simpson

Jefre Cantu-Ledesma

Gift Songs

Mexican Summer

Pop/Rock, Avant-Garde, Electronic

The ambient composer uses organic instruments to sculpt both dense, immersive tracks and spare but no less captivating miniatures.

— Fred Thomas

Various Artists

Jingle Jangle Morning: The 1960s U.S. Folk-Rock Explosion

Strawberry

Folk, Pop/Rock

From hits to oddities, this four-hour compilation illuminates a wide range of styles and expressions that happened under the banner of '60s folk-rock.

— Fred Thomas