The singer/songwriter transforms the lingering loss of his stillborn twin into smart, emotional guitar pop.
The white knight of rock promotes self-actualization and the power of partying while revisiting his signature sound.
Andrés Orozco-Estrada and the Houston Symphony present a showcase of works by Revueltas, Bernstein, Piazzolla, and Gershwin.
Produced by Randall Dunn, the Swedish organist and singer takes her haunted sound into a fully formed, irresistible, unspeakable darkness.
The producer/MC's first rap album since 2014 is a tense, often grim, always riveting affair.
The acclaimed jazz pianist explores Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier fugues, and offers his own inspired pieces.
The Melbourne indie rock trio's confessional sophomore outing explores challenging themes of sexism, inequality, and love.
Andrews establishes herself as a melancholy reflector of the common man with soulful Americana on her sixth album and Fat Possum debut.
Delightfully cheerful and weird outing from the failed turn-of-the-century teen pop duo and eccentric electronic whiz Max Tundra.
A gorgeously rendered set of historical U.K. ballads from an inspired trio who bring the ancient past uniquely into the present.
Going out on top, the third and final album from the New Orleans indie punk band is also their finest.
Tompkins Square delivers an essential three-disc box set of unreleased, unclassifiable music from '70s-era American cult visionaries.
Songwriter Greta Kline delivers another set of disarming indie pop gems on the project's Sub Pop debut and first release as a band.
With a great lineup, fine songs, and solid production, this is one of the group's best efforts since the dawn of the 2000s.
Fusing cosmic jazz with deep house, The Red Notes is one of the warmer, mellower albums from Chicago-based innovator Jamal Moss.
The venerable band's first album in 14 years is a thrilling comeback full of energetic, overloaded, and tight rock & roll done right.
Polish music of the late Renaissance and Baroque eras is celebrated in this festival recording by Stefan Plewniak and Il Giardino d'Amore.
Outsourcing production for the first time (Brian Deck), Erik Hall's gorgeous third album expands textures and musical contrasts.
German violinist Isabelle Faust and South African keyboardist Kristian Bezuidenhout present Bach's innovative sonatas for violin and obbligato harpsichord.
The pianist's standards trio captured live in 1998; this double disc ranges from ballads to bop and beyond in an exhilarating performance.
Everything DeShannon recorded for Capitol in the early '70s, including a scrapped album cut at Memphis' American Sound Studios with Chips Moman.
The Danish guitarist's third ECM album is an atmospheric set featuring trumpeter Palle Mikkelborg.
There are silkier performances of Peer Gynt, but few that seem to have such a sense of Grieg's much-vaunted Norwegian soul.
The Long Island native's third nervy missive merges emotional hopelessness with rousing punk defiance.
After putting out a ukulele album in response to the 2016 election, the singer/songwriter draws on '60s sunshine pop.
Bělohlávek's interpretations fit together into a coherent whole, and the Czech Philharmonic, sinewy and strong, has never sounded better.
Malta's Joseph Calleja shows strong signs of breaking out from the large crop of tenors with this Verdi recital.
Britain's iconic metal masters show no signs of succumbing to age. This driving, imaginative set finds the band at a late-career peak.
A taut, ten-track set of meticulously crafted and radio-ready confections that would eat through the wrapper in lesser hands.
An emotionally candid, blissfully soft blend of classic country composition and modern pop.
Krzysztof Urbański and the NDR Elbphilharmonie offer a vivid performance of Le Sacre du printemps that connoisseurs of orchestration can appreciate.
Elling's second album with saxophonist Branford Marsalis is a deeply poetic, lyrical set.
Volume I of La Fontegara México's Arca de Música surveys manuscripts of the Baroque era held in Mexican collections.
Laurence Cummings and the Harmony of Nations serve a program of Bach works that involve the number 3, suggesting a numerological connection.
The Canadian singer/songwriter shifts gears with a cinematic concept record inspired by life events, Ennio Morricone, and Quentin Tarantino.
Simon Rattle and the London Symphony Orchestra explore the experimental side of Haydn in movements from his symphonies.
British soprano Lucy Crowe presents the fourth and final installment in a complete edition of Claude Debussy's songs.
The Grand Rapids, Michigan trio's debut, marked by laid-back psychedelic pop with vivid tone and chord colors.
Mariss Jansons continues his super audio Mahler cycle with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra playing the quirky Symphony No. 7.
A 2018 Innova release containing five representative examples of Marc Applebaum's eclectic and imaginative music.
Martin Helmchen runs the gamut of expressions in the Diabelli Variations, one of the greatest of Beethoven's late works.
An all-covers set that creatively reshapes R&B hits and deep classics of the '80s and early '90s.
Five concerts from Europe in March 1960 offer startling evidence of a band with a saxophonist at a key point in his musical transition.
After a pair of punk blasts with Void Pacific Choir, Moby dips back into soulful, melancholy electronic soundscapes.
Written shortly after the heartbreaking A Crow Looked at Me, Phil Elverum explores the inevitably changing nature of loss.
The Seattle-based power trio's New West Records debut is a fiery amalgam of seismic Pacific Northwest garage-punk, gnarly bubblegum blues, and fiery psych-rock.
The cerebral Canadians examine inner and outer philosophies on their strong third outing.
Shimmering electronic pop and techno shoegaze that melds the old-school and new school of noise pop.
Recorded live to tape at Havana's legendary Areito Studios, this cooking multi-generational big band pays homage to the mambo with passion and innovation.
With only six tracks, most of them over six minutes in length, the record was a move back to the clubs for the duo.
The duo's debut album is a collection of immaculately crafted and seamlessly produced synthesized dance-pop.
With their second album, the duo perfected their melodic, detached dance-pop.
All the music comes from the first part of Vaughan Williams' career and hangs together beautifully.
Second solo album from the Little Brother and Foreign Exchange veteran confronts grim realities and celebrates new love.
This standout recording of late Mozart piano concertos features Piotr Anderszewski at the keyboard and conducting the Chamber Orchestra of Europe.
A lavishly packaged 50th anniversary box contains five audio discs representing the band's catalog, two concerts, and three DVDs of mostly unissued material.
On his third album, the onetime American Idol contestant finally finds his voice.
Re-enlisting Robert Glasper as co-producer, the Afrobeat scion offers his own take on the music that incorporates modern jazz, dub, and rock.
This Gabe Wax-produced official debut retains the former bedroom project's intimacy, vulnerability, and distinctively sinuous style.
Produced by Dan Auerbach, Smith's tenth release (counting Sonny & the Sunsets) returns to simpler guitar pop and rivals his catchiest work.
The ensemble led by Shabaka Hutchings debuts on Impulse! with a political album that sounds like a street party in the making.
A newly remastered set of the band's first five albums along with rare mono mixes, outtakes, B-sides, alternates, and a film score.
The band's second album takes on politics and growing up in a series of glam rockers, prom ballads, and midtempo indie pop gems.
Fresh and fun sample-heavy pop jams from a London collective that sounds like the house band on a Pee-wee's Playhouse reboot.
A decade after its last album -- and 25 years after Last Splash -- the band delivers one of its finest blends of sugar and swagger.
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A brilliant modern pop reboot that's loaded with timeless songs and features Mutt Lange's genius production.
Collection of the eccentric English pop band's four albums made for Creation Records between 1988 and 1991.
Bold and bracing fusion of rock and experimental music featuring guitarist Anthony Pirog and Fugazi's rhythm section.
Flourescent '80s synths color the Los Angeles band's icy yet pop-savvy third album.
A controlled blaze of '70s hard rock riffage, fuzzed-out desert blues, and jammy progressive metal in search of a new spark.
With disco bangers, heartfelt ballads, and some new wave pop, this is one of Thorn's most varied and impressive albums to date.
Compiled by Glenn Jones, this is an essential compendium of American Primitive guitar and banjo sources to be enjoyed, not just admired.
Excellent collection of synth-heavy African pop that is equally influenced by disco and boogie, while keeping a strong South African feel.
Brilliantly kaleidoscopic follow-up to the group's stunning debut adds new vocalists and a couple stylistic left turns along the way.
The third effort from the Canadian-Asian collective whips myth and sci-fi with psych and prog metal in a thrilling sonic squall.