Sprightly and sweet guitar pop from a cohort of Philadelphia indie kids that's sometimes sunny, sometimes sad, and always hooky.
For its sophomore outing, this quartet spends its time playing together as a single, breathing, multivalent organism.
A deliberate, awesomely detailed, utterly distinctive reading of the Bach's Cello Suites.
An ambitious and impressively performed recital organized loosely or metaphorically around the story of the biblical Eve.
Innovative works from Shaw take a new approach to writing contemporary music for a Baroque ensemble.
The second album from this Philly bedroom pop artist is demented, cartoonish, and garish but still can't hide its pop core.
Katie Stelmanis highlights the classical and pop sides of her music on these pristine-sounding songs about toxic relationships.
The singer/songwriter's first album in a decade triumphantly leaves the pain of the past where it belongs.
Will Wiesenfeld transforms a decade's worth of outtakes into songs that highlight his empathetic, impressionistic powers.
Four-song EP from this DC band continues the development of their maxed-out electronics and splintered art-pop.
On his fourth long-player, the producer, songwriter, and guitarist looks simultaneously in the rearview and toward the uncertain horizon.
Another slice of slightly goofy, always-fun rock & roll done by the venerable band of Pacific Northwest indie rockers, possibly their best yet.
Debut solo album from Thee Oh Sees collaborator maintains a consistent balance between dark psychedelia and gentle beauty.
Will Toledo's first set of fresh songs since his band's breakthrough is a document of self-doubt brought on by success.
The U.K. band's noisy mix of vintage surf, garage pop, and proto-punk is made irresistible by improved songwriting on their second album.
On his third offering, the British jazzman pursues the spiritual through the influences of Alice Coltrane, Yusef Lateef, and '70s soundtracks.
Ellen Reid's Pulitzer Prize-winning opera about sexual assault makes a successful transition to the recording medium.
This moody, reflective EP generates as much heat and excitement as the kinetic dance-pop of Chris.
The saxophonist, his nephew Raw Poetic, Damu the Fudgemunk, and a band deliver a seamless, creative, and completely improvised jazz/hip-hop fusion.
An engaging album that finds Douglas exploring and moving far afield of the legendary bop trumpeter's music.
Ambitious, chaotic, and moving, the band's exploration of the messes left for future generations to clean up finds them at their experimental finest.
An effective program showcases a new variety in Matsuev's playing.
An earthy, joyful covers album from the singer/pianist that runs the gamut of jazz, blues, rock, and R&B.
Upbeat and sweet without sounding shallow, this smart pop band fulfill the promise of their fine debut album.
Eighth installment of Stuart Hyatt's ongoing collaborative project, incorporating the echolocations of bats into ambient and experimental pieces.
The first solo album from this established indie pop figure maintains his skills at arrangement while exploring new, more refined songwriting.
One of America's finest songwriters offers a deep, revelatory dive into the songs of the late, great Mickey Newbury.
An intensely personal, artful, and exploratory debut from the Paramore singer.
A shimmeringly bleak, heartbreakingly sad, and musically thrilling album made of sweeping synths, aching vocals, and slow, dreamlike arrangements.
Danceable, hooky, and fun, the album is a well-crafted slice of post-punk-inspired indie rock from members of Fucked Up.
A brilliant album about the search for strength and direction that emerged in a most chaotic and uncertain time.
Jerry Paper's second album for Stones Throw is another subversive set of tightly focused soft-funk arrangements and surreal wordplay.
The recorded swan song of the great Jiří Bělohlávek, with two performances in his memory.
The valued collaborator (Solange, Frank Ocean) tends to his own discography with piano-based instrumentals that extend friendly companionship.
A collection of unheard demos covers the singer/songwriter's journey through his membership in the Kingston Trio to his early solo albums.
Four years after his groundbreaking Warp, the pianist follows with a no less ambitious approach to the fissures in societal communication.
Highly regarded London DJ Josey Rebelle displays her fearless, passionate mixing style on this intense, uplifting mix for New York's Beats in Space.
A breezy good time that finds Kenny Chesney squarely in his musical wheelhouse while stretching himself emotionally.
Built around a single cello loop, Klara Lewis' most restricted work to date might also be her most powerful.
A four-disc box containing everything the power-poppy pub rockers ever recorded.
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Compilation from Spanish indie pop act Linda Guilala, who have consistently crafted inventive, introspective noise-pop gems since 2005.
On his third studio outing in two years (and a return to jazzy samba) the veteran Brazilian composer teams with a new generation of lyricists.
An ingenious, flawlessly performed program shows the continuity of a New England chamber music style.
Anderson and White make for a complimentary pairing on their entirely improvised guitar and drums debut as a duo.
An excellent performance of a compelling recent viola concerto by Vasks, paired with one of the works that made his reputation.
On his 17th LP, Moby takes it back to the dancefloor with a rousing set of nostalgic, pulsing anthems.
A musically playful, retro-minded fifth album whose many guests include members of the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section and the Dap-Kings.
Beautifully controlled performances of these Bachian but not neoclassic Franck keyboard works.
Groundbreaking new treatment of a troublesome Purcell score brings it alive.
Mike Hadreas' fifth album explores the body's power and tenderness with songs that are equally rugged and delicate.
The Italian producer celebrates feminine creativity with a bevy of collaborators and stylish, inclusive sounds.
Live 2002 Beethoven performances from Norrington use modern instruments in a historical style.
Spanning key album tracks, rarities, and B-sides, this collection gets listeners up to speed with the duo's prolific, cathartic outbursts.
The Mael brothers riff on their history deftly on these timely and trenchant tales of misfits, outliers, and disasters.
The group celebrates friends who are dear but not always near with cozy yet expansive experimental pop.
A much-publicized Vienna production of Die Frau ohne Schatten, notwithstanding impressive singing, is a conductor-driven animal.
The Texas singer/songwriter creates an eloquent song cycle about the lives and risks of West Virginia coal miners.
A home-cooked, more intimate take on the thoughtful and melodic jangle pop sound the quartet established on Whoosh!
A bold pairing of Couperin and Gesualdo succeeds in bringing out the Tenebrae theme in multiple eras.
A descendant of the first generation of minimalist cityscapes, Michael Gordon's Anonymous Man gets a fine performance here.
Diverse pieces are tied together by drawing inspiration from the day's-end Compline service and by the atmospheric performances.
A choral symphony of awe-inspiring scope by MacMillan, embodying incarnations of the Holy Spirit as breath, water, and fire.
A clear, moderately sized version of Der Freischütz avoids heavy-handed Wagnerism.
Broader and finer than the first volume, this compilation spotlights another wide scope of artists with limited or nonexistent profiles in the West.
Slightly elaborated versions of folk-based religious pieces by a founder of the Estonian school.
Fifteen years into a tirelessly curious evolution, this psychedelic indie folk band sounds more inspired and driven than ever.