First album since 1997 from South Carolina alt-country heroes captures their loosely tight sound with style and commitment.
Drummer Robi Gonzalez helps the band capture a massive live sound on what may be their darkest, most diverse album yet.
A beautiful and somber work of windswept Canadiana and orchestrated acoustic pop.
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Second album of darkly damaged and guitar-heavy psychedelic mastery from this Chicago-based act.
With producer Brendan O'Brien, these Southern rockers deliver an album of great songs fueled by killer riffs and hooks.
The veteran German power metal outfit's first album in five years and a sequel to their much loved 1995 offering Imaginations from the Other Side.
Dylan rearranges ten selections from the Great American Songbook -- all recorded by Sinatra, if not necessarily identified with him -- for his five-piece road band.
On his Flenser debut, Mat Sweet balances old and new sounds with direct, affecting results.
A heartfelt and honest audio treatise on life, loss, love, and death that you can kind of dance to.
The Foreign Exchange associate's third album is her best set of modern, mature R&B yet.
The acclaimed director and composer's first non-soundtrack album is a thrill ride through his most distinctive sounds.
Serving as a soundtrack to Naomi's short film of the same name, the duo's eighth album is intimate and effortlessly moving indie pop.
Smart, creatively ambitious electronic pop that's sunny on the outside and just a little bit troubled on the inside.
The prolific British singer/songwriter marries thoughtful indie pop and folk traditions to 19th century political chants by social activist William Morris.
Diana Damrau sings the ultimate coloratura role in this 2013 recording of Gaetano Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor.
On his fifth solo album, the British singer/songwriter and guitar slinger delivers a darkness-drenched future blues.
The band's fourth album delivers remarkably confident-sounding portraits of twenty-something uncertainty.
Cross-generational guest vocalists distinguish this '60s pysch-Baroque pop-soaked debut from the producer.
This entire project comes together quite powerfully and will give rise to many reflections on the role of art in the current violent world.
In a finely crafted, intimate set of vocal and instrumental ballads, the guitarist and songwriter juxtaposes accessibility and experimentation.
The French-born producer mixes the serene, the cinematic, and the otherworldly on this excellent third album.
Masterful double album stands as the Portland experimental rock collective's shining achievement.
The second solo album from one-half of Zombie Zombie delivers a more danceable update on his atmospheric tech-house.
Fabio Luisi leads a nuanced and subtle interpretation of Hector Berlioz's Romantic masterpiece, Symphonie fantastique.
Caustic retro-pop confectioner Josh Tilmann finds true love on his second outing under the Father John Misty moniker.
After entering the Nashville Songwriter's Hall of Fame, the artist delivers a wide-ranging, career-defining album.
A stylistic breakthrough for this long-running noise pop band sees them reaching new artistic heights.
Welsh psych-folk with a woozy heart and ace production by fellow traveler Cate Le Bon.
This monumental, wildly successful meeting of two iconic guitarists was cut live in the studio with a large backing group using scant arrangements.
This EP contains two fine unissued tracks and a kinetic on-air radio performance.
The second installment in Iván Fischer's series of the symphonies of Johannes Brahms presents the Second Symphony and two overtures.
The outstanding singer/songwriter dials back on politics but is as incisive as ever as he sings of a handful of American lives.
The Oklahoma rock & roller's sophomore album of literate, rootsy, old-school R&B.
A massive step forward for this abstract sound artist, incorporating minimal rhythms into his textural shoegaze pieces.
Poetic, existential masterpiece of warm, harmonically enveloping folk from the Swedish artist.
El Divo of Juarez returns to the studio to reimagine many of his hits with an all-star cast of vocal guests.
The Juliana Hatfield Three reunite for the first time in 22 years, delivering a record that's tougher, flintier, and better than their 1993 alt-rock classic.
The East Coast singer/songwriter takes her music to California and collaborates with a younger cast of players to dynamic result.
Poignant, lyrical final studio album from the acclaimed avant-garde jazz trumpeter.
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Zeppelin's classic '75 double-LP gets expanded with an eight-song bonus disc containing alternate versions and demos.
In this 2013 album of piano transcriptions, Maria Lettberg explores Russian music inspired by fairy tales.
Mariss Jansons and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra present two of Richard Strauss' most popular tone poems on this 2014 release.
In the third of a projected 12 volumes, the artist shifts away from jazz, creating a hypnotic and compelling electro-acoustic ghost music.
The post-punk meets shoegaze act delivers a beautifully bummed-out fever dream of a debut.
Smart debut album from upstate New York twee punks zips through 19 love songs in 22 minutes.
This is one of those rare performances where soloist and conductor delightfully emerge as distinct personalities. A strong entry in Barton Pine's catalog.
The Carolina Chocolate Drops leader goes solo with a handsome, slyly inventive interpretation of female-fronted American roots music.
A mysterious instrument in the hands of a great musician in a magical place make for a great recording.
Sakari Oramo and the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra continue their audiophile cycle of Nielsen's symphonies with the First and Third.
A second collection of modular synthesizer compositions from this member of post-rock act the Sea and Cake.
Producer Matt Bayles helps this venerable indie rock band find a tougher and more satisfying sound on its fifth LP.
Simone Young and the Hamburg Philharmonic deliver an impassioned and visionary performance of Anton Bruckner's Symphony No. 6.
Ben Chasny unveils a provocative new card system of composition where nothing is obvious, and everything is permitted.
Fifth full-length from Bay Area songwriter and his makeshift band takes a more cinematic, storytelling approach.
The acclaimed singer-songwriter gets the blues, and the result is his most easygoing and satisfying album in years.
The band's fourth album finds them successfully blending psychedelic exploration with folky intimacy, all wrapped up in a smooth soft rock sheen.
Four complete albums from Memphis' teenage hitmakers, featuring a pre-Big Star Alex Chilton on vocals.
The band sidesteps country and revels in Latin music, ska, rock & roll, romantic moods, and much more to impressive effect.
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On their first album in over 30 years, these post-punk trailblazers are still on a completely different trip than anyone else.
A dark storeroom of soft, piano-led balladry peppered with tasteful flourishes of upright bass, soft brush work, and spectral horns and strings.
Richer second Sub Pop album from the alternative R&B/rap duo, supported on two tracks by the bass of Meshell Ndegeocello.
The Pennsylvania band boldly steps away from its post-hardcore roots with this ethereal and melodic shoegaze-inspired album.
Debut full-length by young singer/songwriter with a romantic style that's well-suited by the eccentric production values.
San Francisco guitar-and-drums duo rocks hard while honoring their folk-inspired roots on their 5th album.
The garage punk prodigy eases back toward his sophisticated side for a potent, roof-raising set of live rock & roll thunder.
The pianist's long-standing trio expertly demonstrate the concept that "a break in music is still music: a span of time in which to act."
The obscure roots reggae vocalist and producer is compiled on three discs, two filled with classic material and one with unreleased treasures.