Contemporary works by Thomas Adès and Paul Stanhope are featured on this 2014 release by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.
The Manchester-based producer swaps digital for analog gear, retains vocalist Alison Skidmore, creates some of his harshest and gentlest sounds.
This intimate set was produced and mixed by the artist during the midnight hours with excellent songs and performances.
Soundtrack to a documentary about the group's unusual 2006 tour loses the subtext, but the performances are truly brilliant.
The producer's debut album delivers uniquely emotional, organic music that revels in its state of flux.
A fascinating mix of next generation and retro, the dark Canadian duo's sophomore release is a synth pop and avant house wonder.
Long-awaited release of the homecoming concert from Big Star's 1994 reunion tour, the only full-length show ever filmed by the band.
The bands bring out the experimental best in each other on this surging, partly improvised performance.
A cannily seductive revival of Ferry's exquisitely melancholic and danceable '80s sound.
Sun Zoom Spark: 1970 to 1972 contains remastered versions of Lick My Decals Off, Baby; Clear Spot; and The Spotlight Kid -- along with a bonus disc of outtakes.
This is a grand survey of what the idea of the Christmas carol has meant over hundreds of years.
Warp mainstay Chris Clark returns to the tiles with invigorating techno and balances it with evocative ambient material.
Expanded into a concrete lineup, this long running goth-folk project has never sounded more exacting or driven.
The singer/songwriter's long-in-the-works third album consists of eight exquisitely sculpted songs.
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Thanks to its expansive track listing and reverse sequencing, this three-CD set presents a new perspective on Bowie's career.
Vaughan Williams' Violin Concerto is underplayed, but Tamsin Waley-Cohen gives it a performance that should secure it in the repertoire.
Classic punk and funk are just a few of the elements the band incorporates into another engaging musical whirlwind.
Kozhukhin's is both brilliant and daring, with the Piano Sonata in B minor, Hob. 16/32, scaled back, but still holding together convincingly.
Modern acoustic blues that is calm, serious, warm, thoughtful, and wonderfully recorded.
New power trio marks the return of ex-Karate songwriter Geoff Farina to springy rock sounds.
Taking on the story of Topsy the Elephant, the band delivers a rip-roaring, hook-filled concept album.
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The band's charming first, and only, album held the potential they later delivered on as the Shins.
Michigan alt-country act delivers a poppier sound on their fourth album, but their atmospheric music is still literate and strong.
The British artist's ambitious sci-fi concept album touches upon neo-psych, R&B, baroque pop, and EDM.
The seeds of future greatness are present in these vibrant 1988 demo recordings from the legendary D.C. punk heroes.
Gustavo Dudamel and the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela present a compelling performance of Gustav Mahler's oddest symphony.
Aesop Rock and Rob Sonic return to their supergroup and offer an album on a Run the Jewels level.
Curated by Lloyd Cole, this compilation focuses on the minimal celestial synth beauty of the Krautrock pioneer.
The DJ/producer's mix for the legendary London club's label is an eclectic dive into dub, techno, and experimental sounds.
The answer is that Bavouzet is as brilliant as ever, and he has essentially rewritten the book on these pieces.
A jazz saxophonist's loving tribute to his daughter who was killed in the Sandy Hook shootings in 2012.
Noted Bach authority John Butt presents the complete Well-Tempered Clavier in an exciting performance on harpsichord.
The iconic American singer/songwriter is covered in detail on this 90-song, career-spanning box set which shows why he so endeared himself to fans.
Four-disc box set offers the celebrated singer/songwriter's own unique take on her extensive catalog of music.
The Dominican legend delivers a stellar collection of bachatas, merengues, sons, and salsas, all done with a sense of musical adventure.
An archival German radio recording captures this high-powered trio at a creative peak, firewalking through composition and improvisation.
The Swedish duo's second album is synthier, warmer, and more ebullient than their first, which is really saying something.
Emmanuelle Haïm's spectacular version of Handel's Messiah in authentic period style is one of the most exciting available.
Incorporating piano, violin, and vocals, the follow-up to Sketches from New Brighton builds on its riveting, sometimes unsettling, mood.
This fine Debussy recital, with nary a conventionally virtuosic work in sight is a recording that everyone ought to hear.
Synthesizers and electronics color the punk-turned-mariachi outfit's most innovative album to date.
On her fifth 21st century album the singer co-writes with a contemporary cast to build a bridge between her musical past and present.
Prokofiev's "Classical" Symphony and the volatile Symphony No. 2 are performed by Marin Alsop and the São Paulo Symphony Orchestra.
Forty-five years after the original, the composer profoundly re-envisions his tunes for a new generation, adding period material never before recorded.
An excellent conversational meeting between two very different jazz guitarists that juxtaposes energy and ideas in ten colorful presentations.
Old-school punk and bursts of out-there noise raucously coexist on this powerful debut from the Memphis garage punk quartet.
Several things come together to make this work: the presence of Ensemble Artaserse, the program, and Jaroussky's voice, equally beautiful in its lower ranges.
Delicate and dreamy third solo album by long-running member of the Bats and the Clean.
This wonderful double-disc companion to Marcus O'Dair's biography is the first to authoritatively compile his solo and collaborative work.
The Scottish-born folk legend returns mightily with his first album of all-original material in eight years.
The British singer/songwriter's third album of introspective, '60s and '70s-influenced soft pop.
The Norwegian electro-pop wizards say goodbye to the album format with a star-studded, vocal-heavy finale.
An excellent hits collection that spans her four albums from 2009 to 2013 and adds a couple newly recorded tracks.
The Glaswegian legends go all the way back to 1979 and successfully wrap their roots and pop past together with 21st century dance rock.
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The duo's final 2014 release is leaner and darker, but still full of brilliantly crude social commentary and beats.
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Jason Molina's sixth album as Songs: Ohia, recorded with Jim and Jennie of the Pinetops.
Languid but powerful late-night music from Josh Haden and Company, featuring his father Charlie Haden's final recordings.
The complete output of the funk pioneer's short-lived label, providing the link between Stand! and There's a Riot Goin' On.
Debut album from the veteran music writer is a deceptively simple effort filled with charm, wisdom, and fine songs.
Double-disc distillation of the big Basement Tapes box contains all the major Dylan originals from the sessions.
Long-awaited official release of all of the legendary Basement Tapes recorded by Dylan and the Band in 1967.
Complete recordings from three mid-'80s Peel sessions made by this essential early indie band from New Zealand.
The Finnish/French duo transforms itself into a sharp-edged electropop outfit with striking and often affecting results.
Masters of what they called "Art Extermination," this raw, snotty Ohio band anticipated punk at its harshest.
This an unusually satisfying and enjoyable release even by the high standards of these perennial favorites.
The Nashville time trippers' third album adds some new sounds to their psych pop revivalism: a little country, bossa nova, and German prog, to be exact.
Compiles all of the influential jazz pianist's original 78 rpm singles for Blue Note.
Thomas Dausgaard's recordings of Franz Schubert's early symphonies offer authentic Classical practices in the super audio format.
The Groove Armada member goes back to the early '80s for this prime mix of post-disco and R&B electro.
The experimental guitarist/composer's commentary on nostalgia is more seamless and engaging than ever on his second full-length.
The band returns after the loss of bassist Gerard Smith with its most streamlined and empowering set of songs yet.
Handsomely packaged and musically arresting, this collection of aboriginal popular music offers another side of cultural "reality."
38 artists play their favorite songs from the catalog of Chicago's long-running "Insurgent Country" label.
Hannu Lintu leads the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra in a powerful rendition of Luciano Berio's avant-garde masterpiece, Sinfonia.
The "greatest hits" of a band that hasn't scored a hit, this set features 38 memorable songs from this acclaimed, eclectic group.
Features 77 rare non-LP tracks that follow how Jeff Tweedy's band grew and evolved during its first 20 years in the studio and on-stage.
Honed by consistent touring, the duo focuses on powerful vocals and percussion with stunning results.
