Featured New Album Releases

Eric Church

Evangeline vs. The Machine

EMI

Country, Pop/Rock

Four years after his last studio album, the singer/songwriter delivers seven new songs and a cover that showcase visionary writing and production.

— Thom Jurek

Car Seat Headrest

The Scholars

Matador

Pop/Rock

Will Toledo gets a great band, writes an ambitious and engrossing rock opera, and presents us with a masterpiece.

— Mark Deming

Mei Semones

Animaru

Bayonet Records

Pop/Rock

A delightful and sometimes stunning full-length debut showcasing the songwriter's singular fusion of indie pop, bossa nova, jazz, and rock.

— Marcy Donelson

Suzanne Vega

Flying with Angels

Cooking Vinyl

Pop/Rock, Folk

The urban folk wunderkind turned éminence grise shows off some new ideas with her typical grace and talent.

— Mark Deming

Lucius

Fantasy

Pop/Rock

Guided by their in-demand tandem lead singers, the band reflect on their years together with a playful and poignant return to off-center indie pop.

— Marcy Donelson

Jenny Hval

Iris Silver Mist

4AD

Pop/Rock

Inspired by fragrance and memories, Hval's reconnection with her creativity makes for some of her most personal, affecting music.

— Heather Phares

Pink Floyd

Pink Floyd at Pompeii - MCMLXXII

Pink Floyd

Pop/Rock

The definitive soundtrack to the band's cult-classic 1974 concert film in a deserted Roman amphitheater.

— Timothy Monger

Lights

A6

Virgin

Pop/Rock

The Canadian singer conjures an introspective, yet still hooky, '80s glitter-goth atmosphere on her sixth album.

— Matt Collar

Esther Rose

Want

New West

Pop/Rock

On her more confrontational fifth album, the crossover retro-country artist steps fairly gracefully into noisier alternative country-rock.

— Marcy Donelson

Blondshell

If You Asked for a Picture

Partisan

Pop/Rock

A sonically darker and denser, thematically more existential second album that still offers plenty of hooks and dry wit.

— Marcy Donelson

Loscil

Lake Fire

Kranky

Electronic

The producer's first solo album since Clara is a formidable, beautiful return to his fundamentals.

— Heather Phares

The Night Mail / Louis Philippe

The Road to the Sea

Tapete Records

Pop/Rock

The Anglo-French indie pop hero turns in another gorgeously produced set with latter-day backing band the Night Mail.

— Timothy Monger

Isaac Hayes

Hot Buttered Singles, Vol. 2: 1972-1976

Ace / Stax

R&B

Straightforward and dutiful compilation of Black Moses' ten varied singles -- the A-sides and their B-sides -- from late 1972 through 1976.

— Andy Kellman

Entrance / Lael Neale

Altogether Stranger

Sub Pop

Pop/Rock

The abstract pop songwriter continues to build her world of strange and dreamlike sounds, this time on an album exploring feelings of alienation and displacement.

— Fred Thomas

PUP

Who Will Look After the Dogs?

BMG Rights Management / Rise Records

Pop/Rock

The unhappy end of a relationship fuels the Canadian punk band's most vivid and effective album to date.

— Mark Deming

Joe Lovano / Marcin Wasilewski / Marcin Wasilewski Trio

Homage

ECM

Jazz

A second free-leaning and sonically textural collaboration between the saxophonist and the pianist's trio.

— Matt Collar

Bunbury / Enrique Bunbury

Cuentas Pendientes

WEA / WEA

Latin, International, Pop/Rock

The Spanish singer and songwriter strips down his production while using Spanish, Mexican, and Latin American folk forms in creative ways.

— Thom Jurek

Loop

The World in Your Eyes [2025 3CD Reissue]

Reactor

Pop/Rock

Three discs of mostly essential non-album material from the British space rockers.

— Andy Kellman

Andy Bell

Ten Crowns

The Crown Recordings

Pop/Rock, Electronic

Featuring songs with Debbie Harry and Sarah Potenza, the Erasure singer's first solo LP in 15 years was produced by Dave Audé.

— Marcy Donelson

Charif Megarbane

Hawalat

Habibi Funk

Pop/Rock, International

Mash-up of sounds from around the world often pinned to hip-hop beats, but always sounding like the perfect soundtrack to a brilliant yet-to-be-made film.

— Tim Sendra