Sophisticated, accomplished collection of straight-ahead acoustic jazz from the pianist, with guests including saxophonist Benny Golson.
Reuniting with Max Martin and Shellback, the glam-disco singer creates a canny modern pop record.
Nielsen's six symphonies and three concertos receive the audiophile treatment in this box set from Alan Gilbert and the New York Philharmonic.
The focus is on Coote, whose rich, almost smoky, mezzo grabs you from the first notes. A strong candidate for a French song collection cornerstone.
Alina Ibragimova's 2014 recording of Eugène Ysaÿe solo violin sonatas is concentrated in tone and polished in technique.
A vibrant, gorgeously produced orchestral showcase for the folk-soul singer recorded at the famed Colorado amphitheater.
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Mixing pummeling heavy metal and bubblegummy J-pop, the band's debut should be a joke but turns out to be a work of genius instead.
The soul dynamo's most stimulating work yet, produced entirely by psychedelic soul specialist Adrian Younge.
Chiming guitars, melancholic tunes, and loads of jingle-jangle '60s-inspired goodness on the band's second album.
The power pop legend touches upon all the music he's ever played or loved on this vibrant, vital album.
Second album of synth exploration from Thee Oh Sees' Jon Dwyer, this time with more poppy hooks.
A hallucinatory and surprisingly organic collaboration between the trumpeter and electronic musician Shigeto.
For the first time in his career, the pianist and composer cuts a full album with a collaborating vocalist, and it's a gem.
Literate, impeccably produced rumination on love, memory, and the music that moves our hearts.
Socio-political punk rock anthems shot through with enough pure '70s power pop acumen to ignite every lighter in the Nippon Budokan.
The Barn Owl guitarist's new set of compositions were mainly written and performed on a Eurack modular synthesizer.
Veteran U.K. space rock project resurfaces after 15 years with an album of atmospheric guitar explorations.
Fifteen years after its last album, this L.A. quartet returns to glory with monstrous riffs and new ideas.
Erika Wennerstrom and her bandmates up their game in the studio on their fifth album, sounding especially authentic and powerful.
After a three-year wait, the Bay Area trio come roaring back with an exquisite slab of power sludge.
Bombastic pop-culture satire and funky-beats make for an infectious, thought-provoking debut from the Los Angeles duo.
Semi-acoustic duo show off their strong skills as instrumentalists, songwriters, and vocalists on their third album.
Teaming with a new producer, the duo enters its fourth decade empowered and adventurous on this bracing set.
Continuing its series on Naxos dedicated to Quincy Porter, the Ives Quartet presents his String Quartets, Nos. 5-8.
Iván Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra add the Symphony No. 9 in D major to their audiophile series of Mahler's symphonies.
This should match the classical top-ten chart performance of its predecessor and continue to gain international attention for this forward-thinking group.
Smartly sequenced overview of the top-tier R&B artist's Hidden Beach albums, featuring all of her charting singles from the period.
József Balog plays the 12 Transcendental Études, a piano collection that took Liszt almost 30 years to complete.
Acclaimed country singer/songwriter digs deeper on her gorgeous second album.
Chicago-based space rock guitarist expands his scope a bit, adding new techniques and sounds to his cosmic explorations.
A yearning, literate collection of songs from around the world held together by Elling's nuanced, lyrical vocals.
After nearly three decades of marriage, this professional couple delivers a righteous debut album.
Joe McAlinden's second solo effort is a delight of appealingly age-worn sunshine guitar pop.
Ludovic Morlot and the Seattle Symphony pair Dvorák's "From the New World" with Varèse's Amériques in a thought-provoking match-up.
Cotillard's beautifully oracular statements put across the uncanny sense of how Joan lives entirely in her own world. A fine, fresh version of a 20th-century classic.
Martin Haselböck and the Vienna Academy Orchestra perform Beethoven's First and Second symphonies at the locations where there were premiered.
Chicago-based experimental musician Whitney Johnson expands her otherworldly, hypnotic sound on her second LP as Matchess.
Matt Pond and his crew crackle with a new energy on their pleasingly slick tenth album.
On her third solo album the songwriter streamlines her process to ascend to a new creative level in both singing and composition.
The shorter piano works of Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji are explored on this three-CD set by Michael Habermann.
Camille Saint-Saëns' Symphony No. 3 in C minor, "Organ," is increasingly programmed for sonic showcases, like this HDCD from Reference Recordings.
Returning to '70s-inspired pop, the singer/songwriter delivers some of his most personal and confident-sounding songs yet.
On their debut full-length, this outsider power trio blur the genres between extreme music and deliver a stone killer of an album.
Van Bloss' reading develops organically, both within individual variations and over the course of the whole set.
Inspired by South Africa tour stops, another blissful travelogue from the Foreign Exchange's non-singing, one-man-band half.
Third album from shoegaze-friendly quartet is a high-watermark of inventive production and darkly blissful songwriting.
Exhilarating debut album from the architect of South Africa's hyperkinetic Shangaan electro sound.
Dreyfus catches the music's experimental, almost revolutionary quality. Highly recommended; listen to it in a dark room with all the shades pulled down.
Philippe Jordan and the Orchestra and Choirs of the Paris National Opera present Ravel's Daphnis et Chloé and La valse in sumptuous sound.
The British folk-rock icon goes into the studio with Wilco's Jeff Tweedy, who helps him sound just like himself.
Reunited with his original acoustic trio, the pianist successfully grafts stylish pop and R&B song forms onto jazz.
Excellent archival box containing all of Gibb's recordings from his two-year hiatus from the Bee Gees at the dawn of the '70s.
The veteran post-hardcore act offers up one of its most diverse and emotionally resonant efforts yet.
Like an unreleased side C of Are We There, this concise and angst-packed EP is delivered with emphasis in all the right places.
On this CPO release, Schumann's four symphonies are given focused performances by Simon Gaudenz and the Odense Symphony Orchestra.
After 12 years, the guitarist and his longstanding trio deal out a back-to-basics hard blues album.
Kevin Gates, Tech N9ne, and Ces Cru help the St. Louis rapper deliver this excellent biographical effort.
East coast chamber pop maestro Bill Ricchini returns with a second set of lovely, '60s-indebted tunes.
The players' interpretation is so precisely done that there is an uncanny feeling of being close to how early audiences heard the work.
A relentlessly likeable smorgasbord of hard rock posturing that manages to touch on nearly every iteration of the genre.
Always the same, always different, the veteran band is in top form on the well-rounded and surprisingly busy album number 31.
On their first album in 18 years, the Swedish punks hit hard but sound as smart and imaginative as ever.
Paterson and Fehlmann return to the Kompakt label for four sprawling, easy-flowing tracks that offer first-rate dub techno and a little hip-hop.
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Deluxe reissue of the 1971 classic is highlighted by an alternate "Brown Sugar" featuring Eric Clapton, and killer vintage live tracks.
Crucial round-up of San Antonio's premier Chicano soul group, something of a sequel to Numero's anthology of the Dynamic label.
Debut album from a San Francisco-based performance art rock group who were retroactively credited as innovators of synth-punk.
Sultry, noirish, jazz-influenced debut featuring vocalist Vanessa Bley and longtime Sade saxophonist/guitarist Stuart Matthewman.
Despite the countertenor version of the Vocalise, which traditionalists will dismiss, this release of Rachmaninov's Second Symphony is first-rate.
Vancouver-based musician and artist Crystal Dorval refines her "therapeutic pop" style with her second proper full-length as White Poppy.
Platform boots and John Hughes films not included on this high-octane, glam-charged synth pop turn for the ever-catchy, driving indie poppers.