Following two exploratory covers albums, Lee returns to his original work with a rustically cozy yet still musically daring 11th LP.
The pianist and his trio play an engaging evening of standards captured at the Village Vanguard in N.Y.C.
The sophomore album from this one-man jangle pop machine matches energetic melodic songwriting with more robust production.
The singer/songwriter and director reinvent his surreally sensuous pop with mesmerizing songs that seem to stop time in its tracks.
Returning to electric guitar while continuing his pedal steel explorations, the artist delivers some of his most dynamic, masterful work.
The 1976 debut LP from the folksinger and master of the hammered dulcimer and psaltery.
The guitar giant completes an album 20 years in the making as his final Stony Plain outing.
Using her road band in the studio, the singer/songwriter digs into writing roots hooks across genres, with an excellent production sensibility.
Comprehensive collection that gathers the full studio output and two Peel Sessions from this funky, chaotic band of 1980s Scottish post-punk.
An evolution in the band's sound that sands off some of the rough edges, revealing new and interesting textures underneath.
This five-disc package from the U.K.'s Robinsongs offers tracks from the pianist's Epic, Elektra, and Warner Bros. solo albums and in the Clarke/Duke Project.
While still anchored to slowcore tradition, the Boston group's fifth album is their noisiest, most high-contrast yet.
Performances of major concertos with the charisma and command of performers from classical music's golden ages.
A patiently evolving suite that gradually works its way towards spiritual transcendence.
Intense, highly ornamented production of Monteverdi's first opera captures the excitement that must have accompanied the work at its premiere.
An embarrassment of riches in this album of French sacred choral music.
The vibrant self-titled debut from the genre-bending Cuban band showcasing their Afro-Cuban funk, Latin pop, and psych-rock sound.
Utilizing a blend of analog and electronic instruments, including cloudy strings and astral horns, the group craft a 3-D stereogram of psychedelic dance-pop.
Joined by an ensemble including co-producer Chris Bruce, the genre-blurring musician delivers an impassioned tribute to the titular writer/activist on his centennial.
The Brazilian icon looks back on his career on this warm collaboration with the Grammy-winning singer and bassist.
A unique rapid traversal of many triple-meter dances of Schubert, all slightly different.
This handsome three-disc set offers a beautifully mastered version of 1975's Honky Tonk Man with 34 unissued live tracks from the same era.
The singer/songwriter reinvents her music with shifting, sophisticated songs that bring the heart's shadowy realms into the light.
Impressively bleak Schubert from a veteran but always fresh ensemble.
Sounding exactly as warm, sweet, and moving as they did decades earlier, the duo add maturity and grace to their minimal indie pop sound.
The Armenian composer and keyboardist offers a kaleidoscopic masterwork that cuts across and joins classical, pop, metal, and prog.
L.A.'s finest punk band sound both raucous and thoughtful as they look to the past on their farewell album.