The soul-rooted cross-genre singer and songwriter tops her seven-year-old debut and incinerates Cee Lo's "Fool for You" in the process.
Pistol Annie Ashley Monroe delivers a dynamite debut that feels simultaneously retro and modern.
Booth and Brown's lengthy 11th album has too many unique standouts to be disregarded as merely another Autechre release.
The fourth Benoit Pioulard album delivers sublimely serene ambient folk inspired by European churches and religious iconography.
Thrilling, sometimes bleak chamber techno from the German trio, who are aided by several vocalists including Om'Mas Keith and Gudrun Gut.
Carmen Villain's debut is full of daring, rewarding songs that could be described as fever dream pop.
This version of Clinic's most psychedelic album features Daniel Lopatin's even trippier mixes.
An elegant evocation of Berlin-era David Bowie, The Next Day is a sweet coda to a towering career
Ace's The Complete UK Singles is an excellent double-disc overview of Del Shannon's early-'60s prime.
Dark, damned, and simmering, the veteran synth pop group take it slow and sensual on their 13th studio effort.
While not quite a return to the brilliance of his early days, the newest work from this freak folk maven sheds the confusion of his last few albums.
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This towering seven-disc box set accords needed respect to one of the greatest guitarists ever.
His second post-illness album is a triumph of songcraft and the human spirit, delivered in his typically droll and clear-eyed fashion.
On their second album, the band ditch noise pop in favor of dramatically rendered post-rock psychedelic songcraft with positive results.
The Scottish trio hits all the right C-86-inspired indie pop notes on its excellent debut album.
Blomstedt delivers a powerfully driven interpretation of Beethoven's Missa Solemnis that is suited to the concert hall instead of church.
Six long years after his debut, the drummer and his band offer a strong, ambitious, holistic view of 21st century jazz.
This album as a whole seems intended as a sort of introduction to Coates. As such, it's highly recommended.
It's a bit sloppy and redundant, but it's a sideline release and one that finds the rapper in top form.
The singer successfully revisits songs from Ray Charles' Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music and interprets other songwriters through its lens.
Cut to Impress does indeed impress, full of well-recorded, well-sung tracks that are poised to shine on contemporary country radio.
Indie rock's premier shredder lets her hooky songwriting do the heavy lifting on her expansive and rousing fourth album, The Chronicles of Marnia.
Nails deliver 17 minutes of hyper-intense heavy metal savagery on Abandon All Life.
Mendelssohn's Midsummer Night's Dream and "Scottish" Symphony are a treat for both experienced classical listeners and newcomers.
Released just days after his 60th birthday, Love from London signals a return to the trippy psych-rock of Fegmania! and Globe of Frogs.
Crossing more genres than one can count, the ever defiant singer and songwriter turns in his most ambitious--and consistent--set to date.
Over the course of four discs, Carry On tells the complex tale of Stephen Stills in compelling detail.
Suede deliver an elegantly lean, quietly forceful, wholly successful comeback with Bloodsports.
A collection of 15 mid-'60s demos from the composer of "Along Comes Mary."
This is an attractive recording of some music that isn't as well known as it ought it be.
Lo-fi experimental house beats made with cheap vintage equipment and recorded onto a four-track cassette.
William Hart, joined by the scholarly and imaginative Black Dynamite composer, reinvents his group with suspenseful, bittersweet soul.
A consistent compilation from the eclectic, R&B-oriented label's immediate and extended FE family that features three excellent new songs.
The leaf-strewn, babbling brook to Mumford & Sons' relentlessly stormy ocean.
One of the Strokes' most consistent albums, Comedown Machine demonstrates the band's flair for undeniable hooks and melodies.
A unique and riveting experience, this live album captures the comedian's announcement to the world that she has cancer.
The sum total here is a pair of performances that add up to more than the sum of their individual values, and to a strong quartet recital.
The band's debut matches punk energy with catchy melodies on a batch of hooky tracks that conjure up memories of '70s power pop.
The guitarist and friends wonderfully revisit the ghosts of the singer/songwriter era and track the disappearing American landscape.
Reworking lesser-known songs from 1979 and 1980, Change Becomes Us is a vital-sounding latter-day Wire album.