A satisfyingly familiar collection of straight-ahead country from the old pro.
A practical, no-frills clamshell box set celebrating the soft rock/folk-pop hitmakers' '70s heyday.
On her first solo album in a decade, the former Bel Canto vocalist/songwriter turns in an elegant tour de force.
There is still elegant and graceful playing in abundance. PentaTone's sound, recorded at Victoria Hall, is superbly matched to the intentions of the performance.
The list of things to be enthusiastic about here is long, but it begins with the differentiation of the instruments in the solo passages.
Beyond its individual beauties, this is a performance that hangs together in an indefinable but very satisfying way.
A poetic, theatrical, and deeply compelling debut from this London-based artist who cut his teeth as a street performer in Paris.
Benjamin Moser's fascination with "late" works prompted him to record the final piano sonatas of Beethoven and Schubert.
The U.K. quartet's debut album is a lighthearted, joyful romp through the indie rock of the '90s and the garage pop of the 2010s.
This concept record reveals the adventurous metal band at their most accessible while still exploring new musical terrain.
Fourth solo album from the Canadian singer, songwriter, and instrumentalist is a splendid exercise in updated countrypolitan.
Producer Rob Schnapf (Elliott Smith, Beck) brings a touch of warmth and clarity to Matt Mondanile's sophisti-psych tunes on Ducktails' fifth LP.
An amazing feat: an album that rocks as hard as a band's 30-year-old debut.
The frenetic Chicagoan offers a brilliant and colorful field guide to her personal chaos on this doo wop-inspired third LP.
Full of breezily bittersweet power pop, the Brooklyn trio's debut feels like a long-lost classic.
Pastoral West Coast guitar pop with psych and shoegaze elements from members of Sleepy Sun.
Veteran U.K. space rock project resurfaces after 15 years with an album of atmospheric guitar explorations.
Once again, Galactic deliver a NOLA that's as vibrant and forward-thinking as it is steeped in second-line tradition.
The Wu-Tang rapper reunites with film composer Younge for this excellent sequel, which features a new nemesis.
Finding a suitable home on Rick Ross' Maybach label, the rapper's debut solo LP is a perfect balance of gangsta and slick.
The ex-Pipette returns with a lovely solo album built on vintage synths and featuring dreamy songs inspired by sci-fi and sung in Welsh and Cornish.
Iveta Apkalna presents a program on two CDs of organ works by J.S. Bach and transcriptions of music by Philip Glass.
The singer/songwriter's follow-up to Southeastern is another triumph of smart, nuanced songs about hard-won life lessons.
John Storgårds treats the six symphonies of Carl Nielsen with intellectual rigor and emphasizes their muscular counterpoint and rugged orchestration.
Flexible, alert support from the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern under Milton makes this is a strongly recommended disc of late Romantic piano music.
Australian singer and songwriter goes it (relatively) alone, and delivers a dozen great songs and heartfelt performances.
The band's seventh studio long-player, the cathartic Sturm und Drang arrives at the end of a tumultuous three-year period for the veteran metal outfit.
The follow-up to a Top Five U.K. debut goes for a bigger, bolder sound without glossing over the artist's singer/songwriter origin.
Pulsing disco beats and icy synths underscore this smart, feminist concept album.
With an ever expanding sonic palette, this trio deliver a killer soundtrack for the end of humanity's existence.
These late songs are luminously lyrical and within reach of good city choirs who could be pressed into service to perform them in symphonic concerts.
The Hallé and Elder are ideal Vaughan Williams interpreters. These are superb performances in which the composer's intentions seem to live anew.
Markus Stenz and the Gurzenich-Orchester Köln have recorded the most Mahlerian work Arnold Schoenberg ever composed, the massive Gurrelieder.
San Francisco-based acid house producer explores technological paranoia on his debut full-length release for Ghostly International.
Box set compiling all of the trumpeter's live appearances at the Newport Jazz Festival from 1955 to 1975.
The last in Guillermo Herren's spate of 2015 releases for Temporary Residence, a 20-minute EP laced with stupefying transient sounds.
A hard, lean, fast and furious record from an older, wiser, but not more mellow PE.
The duo's fifth album came after a long break and stripped their uniquely melodic dance-rock sound down to the bare essentials.
Nielsen's Violin Concerto, Flute Concerto, and Clarinet Concerto complete Alan Gilbert's audiophile set with the New York Philharmonic on DaCapo.
With Bruckner's Ninth Symphony, Simone Young and the Hamburg Philharmonic present the penultimate volume in their complete cycle on Oehms.
Four sets -- almost four hours -- of prime performances recorded back when the band had only one hit to its name.
Co-writer of hits for Rihanna and Miley Cyrus delivers a fine, rare major-label R&B album for introverts.
A celebration of two decades' worth of the duo's cheap and chic pop.
Mendelssohn's sonata is given an energetic, driving performance, and the entire album is satisfying. But the Grieg is the real news here.
The debut from the powerhouse punk-metal supergroup led by My Ruin guitarist Mick Murphy and Corrosion of Conformity drummer Reed Mullin.
Witty, effervescent, and slyly sophisticated indie pop that trades in new wave but never succumbs to nostalgia.
Offering a winning mix of old and new, the big beat duo prove they can thrive in the age of EDM with this comeback LP.
An adventurous, cinematic offering from the North Carolina chamber pop mavens, featuring production by Mitch Easter.
This is a good place to start with the Sixteen's series, but also a Palestrina recording that's going to be heard for a very long time.
The West Coast duo's second record is a relaxed and calming modern-day psych-pop masterpiece.
Intelligent, original indie punks create their most ambitious album to date, a guided tour through one man's damaged psyche.
This recording was something of a labor of love for Berndt and Fleischer, who take care with each individual song and give the music their best.
A wonderful, remixed, re-imagining of the singer's classic La Candela Viva, containing alternate takes and new songs.
Franz Liszt wrote a handful of pieces for violin and piano, which Ulf Wallin and Roland Pöntinen present on this hybrid SACD from BIS.
An excellent and free-form tribute featuring Lauryn Hill, Robert Glasper, Usher, Mary J. Blige, and others.
Relaxed inner space jams and soft rock gems, this time much more focused and hooky than on Williams' debut.
The album debut of Sean and Sara Watkins' longstanding L.A. variety show is filled with inspired performances and eclectic covers.
The Swedish shoegaze band debuts with an impressive album that flawlessly meshes noise and melody into a beguiling mix of sound and feeling.
On its debut album, the Kentucky garage punk band has hooks to spare, energy to burn, and a batch of knockout songs.
Second album of hazy experimental hip-hop from Los Angeles beatmaker Chad Valencia.