X: The Godless Void and Other Stories
The band mark their 25th anniversary with passionate, poignant reflections on life's inevitable changes and endings.
The band mark their 25th anniversary with passionate, poignant reflections on life's inevitable changes and endings.
After a 16-year break between albums, the Baroque pop devotee returns with an even stronger set of lush, wistful chamber pop.
The Atlanta quartet refine their lyric approach while expanding their musical and textural palettes on their third album.
The Irish singer/songwriter's excellent debut is a pastoral, dark-hued set that pulls from chamber folk and psych-pop.
Rough-and-ready grunge-influenced power pop with a fragile heart and many memorable tunes.
Seldom heard, Haydn's Missa Cellensis receives a historically informed reading by Justin Doyle and the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin.
Bernard Haitink leads the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in a thrilling reading of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.
The solitary English songwriter offers a sparse, vulnerable, generous and intimate portrait of his inner world in ten new songs.
After a six-year absence, the progenitors of dark jazz return as a trio with one of their most affecting albums yet.
The London post-punk quartet return from a three-year hiatus with a textured, thoughtfully mature, and intensely stirring fifth album.
The electro-bossa pioneers with composer and guitarist Roberto Menescal wed American blues to funky jazz charts, bossa, and beats.
The choral music of Franco-Flemish composers Johannes Lupi and Lupus Hellinck is given a polished treatment by the exceptional Brabant Ensemble.
Raw as hell, this cracking, soulful set was recorded live in three sessions at the makeshift studio of producer Evidence.
The former Chairlift singer's first album under her own name is an epic, artful statement of transformation.
Osmo Vänskä and the Minnesota Orchestra present Mahler's joyful Symphony No. 4, with soprano Carolyn Sampson as soloist in the finale.
After five years of touring and writing, this Massachusetts outfit returns with a dynamic, nuanced, and expertly performed album.
Deacon returns to making majestically arranged, unceasingly optimistic synth pop on his first studio album in five years.
Massive career retrospective box set that collects all 14 albums and 4 discs of B-sides and rarities.
A dark, troubled, but eloquent snapshot of the American zeitgeist in 2020, with plentiful compassion but no illusions.
A lovingly curated and presented collection of the combo's late-'80s singles and demos is jangle pop perfection.
Long-form ambient pieces from Matthew Cooper, consisting of soothing, immersive waves of sound.
The Parisian band's sophomore set is a thrilling mix of tightly focused post-punk and indie pop played with both sophistication and abandon.
The Hop Along leader's disarmingly tender solo debut opts for keyboard-centric arrangements featuring harp by Mary Lattimore.
The London native encapsulates everything that made her fall in love with dance music on her electrifying second full-length.
Beautifully played early and little-known works by Bartók and Korngold make a convincing Romantic (or neo-Romantic) pairing.
On their fifth album, the Toronto electro-rock group exhibit tighter chemistry than ever while retaining the spontaneity of their previous releases.
The trumpeter offers a lyrical ballads album featuring his drummerless trio.
Berlioz's La Damnation de Faust receives a sumptuous concert performance from John Nelson and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg.
Delightfully melodic proto-neo-Baroque music by Saint-Saëns gets sensitive performances here.
A fresh recording of Bach's concertos features a real exchange between conductor Gardiner and his longtime violin section leader Debretzeni.
Canadian quartet delivers jangly, intellectual punk on par with a lineage of excellence that reaches from the Modern Lovers to Pavement.
The full-length debut album of evocative, '80s-influenced synth and electronic pop from the New Zealand songwriter.
A hushed and delicate collection that finds Little Big Town settling into a subdued but not necessarily settled middle age.
The calm and precise debut album from the Canadian trio is a warm blanket of melancholy played and sung with melodic spareness and restrained emotion.
Teaming with producer/multi-instrumentalist Chris Braide again, the pop chameleon delivers a set that is at once musically ambitious and passionately rendered.
Fine Vaughan Williams performances, both spiritual and technically confident by Brabbins and the BBC Symphony.
Maxim Emelyanychev conducts the Scottish Chamber Orchestra in a vigorous performance of Schubert's Ninth Symphony, "The Great C major."
The psych-rock band's third album is a bummer trip filled with melancholy melodies and soft washes of synths.
Continuing in the direction of 2016's Popp, Oval returns to Thrill Jockey with another playful, exciting world of sonic maximalism.
The acclaimed synth pop duo deliver another late-period triumph on their third outing with producer Stuart Price.
Philippe Jaroussky's second self-selected anthology conveys the breadth of his work and contains new material.
On her empowering third LP, the subversive pop star finds her own voice with a brash metal makeover.
The resilient singer's sixth album features her first number one single and a batch of empowering, honest, and fun pop songs.
A tougher guitar sound blends with the ethereal harmonies and ghostly melodies that are the trademarks of this U.K. indie folk duo.
After several albums of heady concepts, the electronic visionary returns to his IDM roots on this refreshingly direct collection.
Stephen Hough explores Brahms' final piano pieces and offers insights into the moods and expressions of his final years.
A cracking single-disc distillation of the gargantuan The Strange Ones box tells the Supergrass story with concision and flair.
The Brodsky Quartet presents Beethoven's late string quartets in warm and resonant readings that compare well with past great performances.
Balancing the sweet and acerbic, the Glaswegian sextet deliver another set of consistently catchy post-twee indie pop.
Murky, subaquatic pop with strands of wobbly psychedelia and warped soft rock fighting for dominance.
Launching a series of Bartók's works, Dausgaard and the BBC Scottish Symphony offer the Suite No. 1 and Concerto for Orchestra.
On their 12th album, this Danish outfit delivers a unique and deeply satisfying meld of blues styles, choogling rock, funky swing, soul, and jump.
The Georgia-born guitar slinger ups his songwriting ante on his 18th album and pays fitting tribute to his various influences.
The singer/songwriter's openhearted fourth album is some of her most confident and confessional music.
A lovingly curated 84-track rock & roll gem devoted to the opening phases of Britain's psychedelic scene.
The soundtrack to the acclaimed TV series' second season digs deeper, emotionally as well as musically.
With music by Unloved, the Troggs, and Brigitte Bardot, the soundtrack to the cult favorite TV show's first season creates a seductive, volatile world.
The singer/songwriter's witty, moving fifth album is dedicated to his late Jonathan Fire*Eater bandmate Stewart Lupton.
The Canadian indie rock veterans sound strong and vital as they fuse vintage synth pop tropes with a new sense of urgency.
A fine revival of a 1987 Glass opera that, in many ways, anticipates his later work.
The Russian-born pianist and composer and her top-flight rhythm section explore the lives of night creatures in a bracing, evocative set.