This mysterious New York rapper/producer/sound wizard builds a world too strange to ignore on his proper full-length debut.
Despite better-known peers, this Essex singer is the true blue-eyed soul queen, and To Dust proves it inarguably.
House music gets warm and fuzzy on the producer's 2013 effort, but it remains funky and pleasingly deep.
Britten's 1946 chamber opera receives a clear and vibrant performance in this live recording from the 64th Aldeburgh Festival.
More about sounds than songs, the first Atoms for Peace full-length sounds like a fleshier sequel to Thom Yorke's first solo album.
Paradoxically, Anxiety's bold sonics and vulnerability make it some of Autre Ne Veut's most confident-sounding music.
Adding live drums and studio production to their already excellent songs, Beach Fossils' second album sounds energized and alive.
Excellent indie pop dunked in noise from a French quartet who'd make the Vaselines very proud.
Twenty years after their debut, the Dutch indie rockers still play with more fire and fury than kids half their age.
The supernaturally skilled and creative Philadelphian's third retail album, much lighter than his second, might be his apex.
The duo trades the free-flowing warmth of its earlier work for crisply elegant electro-pop on this impressive debut album.
This is an intuitive conversation on jazz and pop standards between two jazz masters, and also offers a major new composition by the saxophonist.
A lovingly crafted, laid-back collection of songs from the vaults of the Everly Brothers that is as respectful as they are idiosyncratic.
With the singer backed by her live band, the reigning queen of socially conscious reggae continues to innovate and empower on her excellent third album.
This U.K. indie act walks the tightrope between incredibly heavy lyrics and perfect pop songs on a collection of early singles.
The A- & B-sides of Freddie King's classic singles for King and Federal are collected on this excellent two-disc set.
Terrific collection of the A- & B-sides of every solo single George Jones cut for United Artists between 1961 and 1964.
Herbert Blomstedt and the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig are almost ideal interpreters of Bruckner's Fifth Symphony in this audiophile presentation.
With their second album, these Danish punk revivalists branch out from the wiry sounds of their debut to more introspective moods.
Ivan & Alyosha's All the Times We Had marks the arrival of a great band fully formed.
After five years, the James Hunter Six and producer Gabriel Roth deliver this deft, expressive, wonderful celebration of earthy, gritty retro-soul.
Vibraphonist Jason Marsalis delivers a cerebral, swinging, and percussion-driven follow-up to 2009's Music Update.
Chris Stamey's Lovesick Blues is a hazy, sweetly melancholy album designed for lonely late-night listening.
Marr joyously embraces all of his signature strengths as a songwriter and guitarist on his solo debut.
Kaufmann has the power to pull off the high notes and gets able support from the Orchestra of the German Opera Berlin under Donald Runnicles.
Renowned violinist Joshua Bell debuts as a conductor with Beethoven's Fourth and Seventh symphonies on this 2013 Sony release.
Matmos' exercise in telepathic songwriting delivers some of the most abstract, and most visceral, music in the duo's career.
Stepping back from the crunch of their debut, the Londoners take a mellow approach to angular indie pop.
Superlative compilation of the mono mixes of the A- and B-sides of Merle Haggard's Complete '60s Capitol Singles.
The second album by Jenks Miller and Heather McEntire offers a gritty, elegiac, Southern Gothic Americana bursting with desire, poetry, and pathos.
Pissed Jeans savage the mundane nuisances of the modern world on their fourth album, Honeys.
Sallie Ford is the real deal, her band seems suited, and Untamed Beast is the full-tilt arrival of a rare and special singer.
Subtle shifts in sound and some new collaborators make this a nice step forward for the Swedish duo.
Spectral Park's self-titled debut is a psychedelic onslaught that's worth the risk of sensory overload.
Steven Wilson's third solo album features a crack new band, Alan Parsons, and an excellent set of new compositions.
The U.K. band's debut is a tuneful blast of retro-shoegaze and '90s-flavored guitar noise worship.
The debut from the jazz supergroup features songs by artists from such genres as pop, rock, R&B, and hip-hop.
II builds on the bedroom recording excitement of soloist Ruban Nielson's debut with the addition of a bassist and drummer.
The first proper album from these two revered techno producers is a creepy delight.
Terrific collection of the A- and B-sides of Wanda Jackson's Capitol singles of the '50s and '60s.
On his first Blue Note date in 43 years, Wayne Shorter leads his stellar group in a startling live program filled with kinetic interplay.
With a minimum of fuss, C-86-inspired Spanish indie pop duo plays simple and true songs about heartache and growing up.