Aljawal
The French producer and Sudanese singer collaborate on songs that are traditional, futuristic, and continually fascinating.
The French producer and Sudanese singer collaborate on songs that are traditional, futuristic, and continually fascinating.
Previously unreleased debut album from the California neo-hippie country-rock outfit.
René Jacobs presents Bach's St. Matthew Passion in a magnificent multichannel version that is intellectually and emotionally overwhelming.
Recorded in Greater Manchester, England after fruitless sessions and a near split, the duo's fifth album is among their best output.
On his fifth solo offering, the Swedish singer and songwriter is at his most ambitious, wedding sophisticated nocturnal pop to Americana.
This lovely recording of the B minor mass is recommended to anybody looking for one, and Accent's studio sound is superb.
The band's fourth album finds them working a '90s influence, from acid house to Black Box, into their already expansive electro pop sound.
The revolutionary hip-hop crew offer an album much more approachable and sane than its controversial cover art would suggest.
A neatly arranged and sharply designed 58-track set that combines the genius' familiar material with rare and previously unreleased recordings.
Taking a giant step away from the fuzzy psych of their debut, this gets deep into some woozy synth pop but keeps the hooky tunes.
Giant Sand's founder and frontman returns with an intimate, mysterious, and fully realized solo work.
The budding singer/songwriter teams up with roots rock maven Rick Rubin for an electrified second album.
Jory Vinikour presents a program of modern American toccatas for harpsichords, a varied display of highly virtuosic music.
Debut record from Babies singer and Woods bassist echoes the classic Greenwich Village era with a love letter to New York.
Obsessively packaged and seven years in the making, this is most exhaustive history of the artist's LHI label ever released.
Fourth studio album from the recently re-formed '90s alternative group.
Invokes the sunshine pop of the Left Banke, the music box melodrama of Edward Scissorhands, and the breezy lunacy of Twiggy.
The late piano music of Ferruccio Busoni can have no better champion than Marc-André Hamelin, the virtuoso's virtuoso.
Tilson Thomas presents Beethoven's Cantata on the Death of Emperor Joseph II with the Second Symphony, an interesting programming choice.
A romantic, bittersweet album of nuanced electronic pop from the Canadian half of Rhye.
Heavy on banter and light on songs, this almost three-hour live set is for die-hard fans only.
The group's third album is undeniably catchy and fun, this time with more folk-pop and rock & roll in the mix.
The second Hunger Games soundtrack downplays folky sounds in favor of grimly anthemic pop and rock.
On their Plowboy debut, the artist, band, and guests rip it up on a batch of killer songs crackling with live energy and studio savvy.
Kept in a bread truck for over 40 years, these unreleased, live-in-studio solo tapes should have been the guitarist's third Vanguard album.
Pared down and emotionally stirring techno from Ghostly International signing Lorenz Brunner.
Captured Tracks' terrific reissue makes this mysterious, disco-meets-Middle Eastern act's music widely available for the first time.
After a five-year wait, the Death from Above 1979 drummer's second solo album is a synth-filled, energy-packed burst of power pop excitement.
Icy, Drive soundtrack-inspired synth pop from a San Francisco duo who give the sound a very sad, very human touch.
Excellent collection of noisy pop and weird psych folk bands from the Bay Area, expertly curated by Sonny Smith.
With their second album, this fuzzy punk-pop act are heavier, moodier, and more mature but no less instantly exciting.
The first four U.S. albums from one of the very best blues-based bands of the British Invasion era, now remastered and expanded.
Delightful, long-awaited second collection of Fab Four BBC recordings concentrates on 1963.
A raw live document of an early gig from one of the most influential garage acts in its most unpolished state.
The band's ninth album is an ambitious, sprawling affair designed to be savored by longtime fans.
Arensky's melodic gift is fully in evidence in the trio here, and Trio Wanderer makes it sing.
Splendid collection of songs from the Civil War years, performed by a stellar cast with a variety of musical viewpoints.
Tim Presley takes his one-man garage psych group out of the bedroom and onto the stage with thrilling results.