Editors' Choice for February 2024

Album cover for Radio Sessions BBC 1996-2011

Radio Sessions BBC 1996-2011

Tapete Records

Collection of radio sessions that includes tracks from the band's lost second album along with plenty of inspired and energetic indie rock brilliance.

— Tim Sendra

Album cover for Shades of Yesterday

Shades of Yesterday

Stones Throw
R&B

Vince Guaraldi, Stevie Wonder, and Donald Fagen, among other artists obscure and popular alike, are delightfully covered by the Butcher Brown multi-instrumentalist.

— Andy Kellman

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Ellie Pop

Sundazed

Obscure Michigan psych-pop album from 1968 released on Bob Shad's Mainstream Records.

— Matt Collar

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L' Ecstacy

Turbo / Turbo Recordings / Turbo Sound

A successful collaboration that sounds like the work of two friends bonding over everything that made them fall in love with club culture.

— Paul Simpson

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nublues

Blue Note

The vibraphonist's fourth Blue Note album is a harmonically textural distillation of blues and ballads.

— Matt Collar

Album cover for Rooting for Love

Rooting for Love

Drag City

Sadier combines urgent calls for love and self-knowledge with experimental sonics that border on sacred, making for some of her most vital solo music.

— Heather Phares

Album cover for Weird Faith

Weird Faith

Anti-

The midtempo, hook-strong follow-up to History of a Feeling shines a light on love's underbelly, where the flaws, compromises, and insecurities lie.

— Marcy Donelson

Album cover for Souvenir

Souvenir

Sub Pop

On their fourth album, the band amps up the energy, sharpens the hooks, and delivers their clearest-sounding, most-exhilarating record to date.

— Tim Sendra

Album cover for Daniel

Daniel

Domino

The sixth album from this New Jersey indie band continues their arc of maturation while returning to the straightforward charm of their earliest days.

— Fred Thomas

Album cover for Walls Have Ears

Walls Have Ears

Goofin'

The band reclaim a vital part of their history with the official release of these pivotal 1985 performances.

— Heather Phares

Album cover for Frustration

Frustration

Numero

Remastered anthology collection of this obscure Long Island garage band who took their homespun psychedelia further out than most.

— Fred Thomas