Sophomore effort and daunting follow-up to 2014 smash "Say Something," packed with arena-ready choruses and earnest positivity perfect for pop radio.
The Philadelphia/Brooklyn/L.A./Sydney quasi-shoegaze group continues to pave its own way with an effervescent and involving fifth LP.
Promising debut album from immensely likeable, teen-aged Canadian singer and songwriter who mixes pop and R&B.
Amanda Forsythe sings virtuoso arias from Handel's operas, backed by Jeannette Sorrell and the brilliant period instruments ensemble Apollo's Fire.
Bocelli returns to the studio with Cinema, an album of movie songs, featuring duets with Ariana Grande, Nicole Scherzinger, and Veronica Berti.
Abandoning the disco influences of his earlier releases, André Bratten's second LP is a spectacular, surprisingly confessional work.
This is state-of-the-art Verdi, and for a lot of listeners, the new Aïda they've been waiting for.
On her wonderful third album, the singer, composer, and multi-instrumentalist frames her tunes with a 9,000-pipe organ.
A career-spanning collection that cherry picks classic singles and album tracks from one of America's best indie pop bands ever.
The fifth album by the Dutch craftsman adds lots of soft rock and some Phil Collins to his smoothly soulful sound.
The introspective bard of West Kirby turns up the guitars on his warm and weary third album.
Scotland's maverick jazz bandleader hosts an array of guests from indie rock and beyond on this set of reconstructed nursery rhymes.
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A phenomenal six-disc set of outtakes, alternate versions, and fragments from Dylan's 1965-1966 peak.
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Exceptional chronicle of the second half of Buck Owens' prime, built upon hits, live tracks, and rarities.
The dream pop band's first album in almost two decades is a brilliant update and reaffirmation.
Debut album from a band influenced by '90s alt-rock and 2010s noise pop, but with a sound all its own.
Isaak's devilish charm and romantic songcraft are on display throughout this vintage-inspired album recorded in Nashville.
Chris Young emphasizes his softer, romantic side on I'm Coming Over.
Neal Casal and friends deliver hours of exploratory rock created specially for the Grateful Dead's Fare Thee Well concerts.
The band's third album comes after a long break and lineup shifts, and finds them adding new sounds and emotions to their jangling, upbeat approach.
An 18-track collection bringing together the career highlights of these latter-day power pop obsessives from Australia.
There are many junctures at which this recording of Scarlatti arias is positively haunting.
British electronic pop singer bursts her sound wide open with a hooky, R&B-infused third album.
A distinctive and very strong live Beethoven release.
The Irish singer/composer's lushly crafted eighth album harkens back to her early masterworks.
Sam Shepherd and supporting players' exacting and dazzling cross between modern creative jazz and ambient techno.
Originally recorded live in the studio, Thomas Strønen's extensive post-production results in the band's most groove-oriented effort.
Frans Brüggen's acclaimed Mozart recordings with the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century have been collected in this 8-CD box set.
First legitimate reissue of rare mid-'70s material from this lesser-known soul and disco diva.
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This is a marvelous release, equally perfect in conception, execution, and engineering.
Levit has knitted three ambitious and extremely difficult variation sets together with a common style.
Second album from a Bakersfield-based group who play a refined brand of Ethio-inspired spiritual jazz.
Iván Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra continue their series of Brahms symphonies with a solid reading of the Symphony No. 4.
The Fitzwilliam String Quartet presents Anton Bruckner's chamber music in warm and radiant performances on this 2015 Linn release.
James Ehnes performs Vivaldi's The Four Seasons in a straightforward reading with the Sydney Symphony, along with works by Tartini and Leclair.
After a four-year break, the singer tops his debut with nuanced, organic grooves made with Lexx, Paul White, and Robin Hannibal.
The veteran Atlanta MC offers an ambitious concept album with Janelle Monae and Monica as his only guests.
Freed from their major label constraints, the Orrall brothers deliver a trippy, experimental whopper of a double album.
Massively influential and quintessential exploration of modal jazz and one of Coltrane's finest hours.
Cellist Julia Kent's spellbinding fourth album focuses on conflict, both internal and external, resulting in her most direct, striking work.
Another set of homemade pop gems from this one-man band, boasting great songs and inventive production.
The gospel writer, producer, and vocalist poignantly exhorts the church to lay down its weapons and practice love, tolerance, and forgiveness.
K Ishibashi proves himself a top-notch arranger as well as performer on reworkings of eight of his own songs plus a Talking Heads cover.
An(other) absorbing, cinematic mix of dreams and creeping nightmares from the Newcastle indie rockers.
The one they call Young Sinatra returns with an excellent sophomore LP that doubles as a sci-fi concept album.
Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra present fresh interpretations of Beethoven's Fifth and Seventh Symphonies.
Drifting songs and ambient works come together on McGuire's second album for the Dead Oceans label.
This eight-track set, inspired by Colombian organ legend Jaime Llano González, is loopier and even more fun than Salvadora Robot.
Nilsson's sixth album is her best; expansive and emotional synth pop delivered with a deadpan grace.
The Norwegian rock legends celebrate 25 years with their first career retrospective, curated like a brand-new album.
Twenty years on, the singer/songwriter offers a new experience of her classic album by completely re-recording it.
Sterling collection of sharply written, mainstream country-pop with mild R&B influences that isn't afraid to be either romantic or corny.
Three albums of Arvo Pärt's choral music have been reissued in this slip-covered set by Paul Hillier and the Theatre of Voices.
Queen's gloriously exuberant, epically rocking 1975 Christmas Eve concert at London's Hammersmith Odeon.
Offering period-style performances in multichannel sound, Rachel Podger delivers a gorgeous album of Biber's Rosary Sonatas.
The acid jazz pioneer expands his quartet to an octet, enlists a 34-voice church choir, and creates the first jazz-funk mass.
The latest edition of David Thomas' proto-punk band delivers his hardest, most rocking album in decades.
Sara Bareilles' songs for Diane Paulus' theatrical adaptation of the 2007 indie comedy Waitress is a tuneful triumph.
SOPHIE's cheekily named singles collection is an instantly addictive introduction to the producer's hyperactive, subversive reimaginings of pop music.
This acoustic trio offers a relaxed, swinging set of standards and originals that showcases the warm side of musical virtuosity.
A Wondrous Mystery is a quietly joyous album of Renaissance choral music for Christmas, presented by the exquisite Stile Antico.
Finland's iconic dark metal band issues a triple album that magnificently and artfully showcases its diversity.
This kind of thing is the Takács Quartet's bread and butter, and a major statement of Czech chamber music.
A four-disc box containing everything the "Lies" rock & rollers cut in the mid-'60s.
On their second album in just seven months, the Masaki Batoh-led unit shows its wilder, heavier, more improvisational side.
Imperfect but generous four-disc overview that combines hit singles, deep cuts, and previously unreleased material.
This set covers a two-year span of dream pop, shoegaze, and psych-pop brilliance from the criminally overlooked band.
Refurbished live tapes of the fabled proto-punks provide excellent and most listenable evidence of their strength on-stage.
The progeny of folk music royalty team up for this set of lullabies, some traditional and some slightly twisted.
Reunited with Hookworms' MJ as producer, the band pulls its songs taut and lets them fly, with ferocious and infectious results.
The L.A. MC and singer offers a diverse and weighty debut album with an all-star guest list.
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Underworld's second album with DJ Darren Emerson refined and expanded their progressive house sound, producing some of their best work.
This four-disc box, taken mostly from board tapes and curated by Peter Erskine and Tony Zawinul, captures the band at a live peak.
The great British eccentric moves to the United States and writes about the things he sees, from diner food to failing boy bands.
J.R. Robinson's project portrays two lives as metaphors for violence and the sacred on this brutal, beautiful work.