Celebrating the bicentennial of Giuseppe Verdi's birth, Anna Netrebko explores five heroines from his operas on this Deutsche Grammophon release.
This Boston combo's Bloodshot debut, is their wildest, woolliest set ever!
The duo's subtler, richer second album expands on Blondes' dialogue with rhythm, texture, and melody with often transcendent results.
This is a superior Renaissance choral release, featuring music of an unjustly neglected composer.
Despite losing a member, the band thrives on its second album, delivering ambitious and emotional electronic pop.
This is an impressive job by a child-prodigy instrumentalist who accomplishes the difficult task of continuing to productively challenge himself as an adult.
The big-toned bassist leads his trio through a swinging set of straight-ahead acoustic jazz.
Produced by the Raveonettes' Sune Rose Wagner, this is the noise pop band's most immediate and poppy album to date.
Featuring new drummer Noah Ledger, Era presents some of Disappears' starkest and darkest music yet.
This collection gathers the sole 1969 album and unreleased demos recorded for Volt by this lesser-known but incredible '60s soul singer.
Following two strong EPs, the debut LP from this relentless Atlanta grindcore trio is a filler-free instant classic of various hardcore styles.
May's third album cuts down on the disco in favor of a piano-based, Nilsson-inspired classic pop approach.
On his Blue Note debut, the bassist weaves contemporary and post bop jazz, funk neo soul and pop into a provocative, fully-realized whole.
Deeply personal singer/songwriter is joined by former bandmates to temper his strikingly raw lyrics with dreamy folk-rock instrumentation.
Destruction Unit push their psychedelic punk sound to trippy extremes with their first album for Sacred Bones.
The highly anticipated debut from the Odd Future member is a bit messy, but it suits this maverick rapper to a T.
The first musical collaboration between longtime friends and pillars of the family folk music community.
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Elvis' last great recording sessions are boxed up on this three-disc set.
Black Dice founding member returns with an album of his most accessible but still stunningly weird beat-driven material.
Nearly a decade after their breakthrough, Franz Ferdinand return with some of their most confident and engaging music.
West Coast headbangers' third outing offers up a refreshing (in a neck-snapping way) old-school, no-frills, thrash crash course.
There's nothing revelatory here except the music itself, and it's as good a place as any for the neophyte classical listener to start.
The second offering from this group finds them gelling as a band, and showcases fine compositions from each of its members.
An enigmatic collection of string-laden indie pop confections inspired by the short stories of the late John Cheever.
Hushabye, Hayley Westenra's 2013 release on Decca, offers a program of soft and sentimental lullabies from many genres.
This triple-disc retrospective contains singles, splits, rarities, and unreleased material for fans and a brilliant introduction for newcomers.
Iwrestledabearonce return with a new singer and a more brooding sound for their third album, Late for Nothing.
Jaap van Zweden and the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra present a revised version of Bruckner's Sixth, edited by Rüdiger Bornhöft.
Second album from this often overlooked reggae innovator is a colorful blend of styles and messages, heavy on highlights that rank as classic.
The Three 6 Mafia member joins Wiz Khalifa's Taylor Gang imprint and the results are nasty in the best sense of the word.
Holter's third album in as many years is also her most polished, offering fascinating explorations of celebrity, love, and the city.
With her third album, this Brooklyn-based sound artist opens up her personal song worlds to deeper collaboration and more detailed production.
Years after an impressive run of singles, the forthright Love & Hip-Hop: Atlanta star finally issues a solid, lyrically diverse debut.
London-styled blue-eyed soul meets trip-hop and lo-fi indie rock on Archy Marshall's intriguing True Panther/XL debut.
This entire album of Kuniko's arrangements is essential listening for anyone with the slightest interest in contemporary percussion.
An adult rock & roll fairy tale from ex-Auteurs frontman, Black Box Recorder mastermind, and a current Dickensian Tom Wolfe.
Thrilling shoegaze pop from reunited original members stands as an equal to the albums made in the '90s.
Second album of ferocious garage punk mayhem from ex-Exploding Heart co-hort King Louie Bankston and his hairy friends.
Berlin techno acts Modeselektor and Apparat join forces once again for Moderat's excellent sophomore effort.
This concert presentation of Così fan tutte is the second in a series of Mozart's operas to be recorded in Baden-Baden.
Dreamy and dream-like debut album from a duo that borrows from the Cocteau Twins, but sounds fully modern and weirdly beautiful.
The beatmaker takes an amazing journey from the outer limits to street level with jazz man Sun Ra as his guide.
As expected from Phillips, another tiny gem of intelligent, well-crafted singer/songwriter pop that sits happily out in left field.
Zach Saginaw's third Ghostly International album, laced with some dazzling thumb-piano melodies, is his most colorful and accomplished release.
The modernist Italian pianist teams with one of Brazil's most renowned musicians in an imaginative, risky live date that dazzles.
The band's tenth album is classic Superchunk, overflowing with perfect pop songs, fiery performances, and hard-fought wisdom.
The Norwegian composer and guitarist delivers the recorded premiers of two large-scale works for orchestra, voices, and guitar.
Rarities-laden box set telling the entire history of the Beach Boys.
Tim DeLaughter and the Polyphonic Spree return with their most direct and focused album to date.
Second album of excellent garage rock/psych pop revivalism from young Nashville duo.
A modern, classic rock gem from this Austin-raised, Nashville-based, Bad Company-meets-Big Star quintet.
The eclectic master DJ narrows his focus to seven early-'70s albums from one small but substantial label.
Trevor Pinnock presents exquisite chamber performances of Mahler's Fourth and Debussy's Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune on this hybrid SACD.
Seismic Portland, Oregon-based, 14-piece indie rockers manage to please both sides of the brain with their debut long-player.
The complete, stellar recordings of the Australian garage punk crazies that featured drummer Jim White and guitarist Mick Turner of Dirty Three.
The group's second album is a fully colored-in, completely laid-back, soft-rock-meets-shoegaze gem that'll warm you up from the inside out.
Quintet Will Kimbrough, Grayson Capps, the duo Sugarcane Jane, and Corky Hughes deliver the very definition of great Americana on this set.
Featuring string arrangements for the Mivos Quartet by J.G. Thirlwell, Versions focuses on the wounded beauty of Zola Jesus' music.