A wholesome, encouraging album of new age pop songs which gradually found an audience decades after its initial 1986 release.
The New Orleanian dynamo proudly reps her region, state, area code, and even home on her first Merge album.
The 12th studio album from this slacker pop institution includes some of the catchiest and most immediate songs since their 2005 reunion.
The band's surreally witty, poignant debut album brings fresh energy to post-punk with its combination of deadpan vocals and fired-up playing.
A unique program of music that revolves around works by guitarist Ferenc Snétberger, powerfully executed.
Fevered grooves and psych textures mark this reunion of the experimental trio's original lineup.
The octogenarian altoist leads the Jazz Is Dead crew and drummer Greg Paul through an exploratory jazz-funk groove session.
The Canadian post-rock ensemble's seventh full-length is as bleak and funereal yet staunchly hopeful as the rest of their catalog.
An extraordinary outing from Hahn, not stereotypically Parisian but Parisian nonetheless.
A dusky pop album that finds the Irish rocker joined by special guests, including Rolling Stones guitarist Ron Wood.
A splendid historically oriented Beethoven performances with touches of the humor that is so often missed in his music.
An especially exuberant item in Bavouzet's superb Haydn sonata cycle.
A unique panoply of quirky, anxious, and sometimes joyful lo-fi pop documenting a difficult year.
On her first album since 1994, the veteran soul and gospel singer delivers love songs, spiritual anthems, and testaments to hope in her iconic style.
Across her sixth album, the Chilean expatriate delves deeply into Mexican folk forms and emerges with a visionary work.
A set-long collaboration between the Chicago-based world jazz ensemble and soprano maverick Evan Parker delivers ecstatic results.
Superb compilation of standards culled from the singer's early-'50s radio show featuring duets with several of the composers.
A more ambitious, varied, and volatile fourth long-player that still delivers sharp pop-punk hooks.
Assisted by KLSH, Jimmy Edgar, and Machinedrum, the progressive electronic R&B specialist hits her stride by integrating house, garage, and drum'n'bass.
The Chicagoan's fifth album is a satisfying nexus of impressionistic songwriting, prog-rock vision, and melodic nuance.
Giddy, melancholy indie pop with impressively warped, immersive textures from the lead singer of Gothenburg's Ruby Empress.
Debut album from minimalist pop duo recalls the greats of '90s indie rock while also exploring a more subtle approach to arrangement.
Odd, hooky, experimental, and gloriously innocent, this collection gathers all the magical pop songs recorded by the obscure group of Australian teenagers.
Inspired by faded seaside resorts, the group explore pre-Beatles pop, psychedelia, folk-rock and more on a brilliant double-record that's both expansive and focused.
An extraordinary performance of Henry Purcell's inexplicably neglected Royal Odes.
Beautifully melancholy, world-weary, and hook-filled Sarah Records-inspired indie pop that displays a total mastery of the form.
On his 42nd album, the Welsh singer offers a powerful, deeply personal collection of covers chosen from across the musical spectrum.