Complete recordings from this largely unknown C-86 band, working backwards from its later shoegaze material to early shambling pop.
This soundtrack music-inspired outing is one of the most interesting and emotionally powerful albums in Franklin's long career.
On his final date as a leader, the double bassist leads a killer band and seamlessly integrates straight-ahead jazz and Middle Eastern sounds.
The Allegri takes quite a different tack on these oft-recorded pieces: its readings are balanced, homogeneous, and startlingly quiet.
The BRIT-nominated pop duo's long-in-the-making debut album is led by past A-sides and a small clutch of new highlights.
There's a lot here to keep you listening in this triumph in a very strong series of piano albums issued by manufacturer Steinway & Sons.
Michael Silver's Montreal-based studio project grows into a more heady experience with this EP exploring everyday objects.
The jungle producer and rebel MC offers an exciting batch of old-school jungle on his first album in eight years.
The reggae great has found an excellent backing band with the London-based Soothsayers, and the results are outstanding.
George Perle's tonal and twelve-tone music for string quartet is explored in this fascinating album by the Daedalus Quartet.
On his Sub Pop debut, the Pennsylvania singer/songwriter delivers a brave, truly original meld of country music and electronica -- sans gimmicks.
The director's second solo album pushes the blues' boundaries while honoring its lust for life and a lonely heart.
An archival collection of almost all available recordings from this short-lived early-'80s synth punk band made up of precocious teens.
On his fourth outing, the Trinidadian trumpeter makes deft yet inseparable connections between Caribbean musics and modern creative jazz.
Cloaked in obscurity, this second volume of glowing, brilliant, instrumental indie electronica arrives ten years after the debut.
Roth leads the original instrument orchestra Les Siècles in authentic recreations of Debussy's La Mer and the Première suite.
The duo's first self-produced album is also among Fuck Buttons' most ambitious and satisfying music.
At long last this exotic, groove-laden, sophisticated jazz masterpiece is finally resurrected and reissued thanks to Real Gone and Dusty Groove.
Dense, tantalizing song cycle based on William S. Burroughs and John Milton's Paradise Lost that evokes memories of Zen Arcade.
A wonderful, balanced gem of an album from a masterful songwriter.
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A cult classic from 1970 often credited as the first "post-Velvets" album, with heavy Velvet Underground influences on smart, straightforward songs.
A wonderful and mammoth 17-disc collection of all of Nilsson's RCA albums, plus three discs of rarities.
Thrilling Australian "future soul" band's self-released 2012 debut is re-circulated through Salaam Remi's Sony-distributed Flying Buddha label.
Sara Abdel-Hamid's conceptual second album is an electro-techno air-travel equivalent to Carl Craig's Landcruising and Model 500's Deep Space.
Scottish crate-digging team offer up their third installment of feral rockabilly and early surf from the '50s and early '60s.
In a blistering show of both aggression and sophistication, this L.A.-based hardcore unit turns in its most ambitious work to date.
Janowski continues his super audio series of Wagner's music dramas for PentaTone with a riveting performance of Die Walküre.
Quirky, anxiety-injected, and with plenty of impressions of people you never heard of, Bamford offers a hilarious and weird experience here.
This presentation of Vaughan Williams' Fifth Symphony mixes live and rehearsal recordings, but the Eighth Symphony is a studio session.
Mahler's Seventh Symphony receives an extraordinary reading by Markus Stenz and the Gürzenich Orchestra of Cologne on this hybrid SACD.
This seasoned Kansas blues and roots rock unit enlists producer Matt Bayles and delivers an expansive, soulful, literate, stone cold killer.
Mono is how these tracks were meant to be heard, mixed to sound powerful blasting from radios and jukeboxes.
This driving, wonderfully performed tribute to the 1960s country of Merle Haggard and Buck Owens is a candidate for country album of the year.
Filled with club tracks and wit, the synth-pop duo surprise with a well-built and infectious bundle of taut electro-disco.
On its Blue Note debut, this band comes very close to re-creating its wild, joyous, raw live sound in a studio.
The genre-defying duo returns with a set of precise yet passionate songs that blend dance, jazz, and drone in seamless and thrilling ways.
Sequentia's virtues are fully intact after 35 years, and the Hildegard set as a whole is something to treasure.
Co-founder of Dead Confederate delivers a haunting, atmospheric, cough syrup-paced gem.
After a 13-year hiatus, Minekawa returns with this charming and challenging collaboration with former Ponytail guitarist Dustin Wong.
Blending consort music, avant-garde jazz, and experimental vocalizations, the Dowland Project presents its fourth album on ECM.
After a decade-long break, the Canadian chamber poppers return with a dark and emotional tale of war, death, and unrequited love.
Super-powered bassist Stephen Bruner works through the passing of collaborator and close friend Austin Peralta with a phenomenal second album.
True Widow pick up the pace with an album of layered, shoegazey sludge.
