Gary McClure picks up a band and improved recording equipment for the lo-fi outfit's second LP without sacrificing distorted textures or songcraft.
Concise and effective overview of this all-female noise-making trio; brutal, cathartic, and uncompromising music.
The former Anniversary frontman turns in a tuneful power pop set with hooks for days.
The master drummer and bandleader formally weds Renaissance liturgical music, improvisation, and heavy metal to devastating effect.
An all-out R&B affair with references that span the '80s and scrape the '90s, from post-disco boogie to new jack swing.
A gorgeous, elegiac album from Haden's long-running, socially minded big band with pianist Carla Bley.
John McEntire of Tortoise boils down the first decade of output from Krautrock legends Cluster into a single hourlong disc.
Reunited with 1997-2007 collaborator Karriem Riggins, the rapper delivers some of the most thoughtful and vital material of his career.
The leader of the intense acid psych band Wand steps out on a lushly autumnal psych-folk solo album.
The acoustic guitarist follows up the acclaimed River with a raw, atmospheric, skeletal exploration of sound that searches for melody.
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One of the first posthumous Bowie hits collection serves up his standards.
The proudly defiant conclusion to the expectation-defying singer and songwriter's "heart trilogy."
The West Coast beatmaker's excellent first LP for Leaving Records is full of sunny, laid-back but not sluggish synth-funk.
This a performance in which intelligent, small decisions cohere into a persuasive larger whole.
The Ohio indie rock institution delivers another finely crafted set of dynamic, jagged, and tuneful guitar pop.
Post-breakup follow-up to the singer and songwriter's U.K. multi-platinum debut, filled with stirring ballads.
Geoff Farina's Chicago power trio turns in a wonderfully streamlined sophomore set.
Outtakes, demos, and alternate takes from the sessions for the songwriter's stellar 1996 debut; austere but strikingly beautiful.
On his first widely distributed album in 20 years, the legendary guitarist and a young band from Chicago deliver a stone killer.
Requiems for Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette receive authentic period interpretations from Hervé Niquet and Le Concert Spirituel.
The third Warm Inventions album was seven years in the making, but its tuneful mystery and Sandoval's bewitching vocals make up for the wait.
Lin creates a magical atmosphere of favorite compositions and delightful rarities, amplified by excellent illustrations in the booklet.
My Morning Jacket frontman offers a soulful, moody, collection about modern tensions and hopeful living in spite of hard truths.
John O'Conor's 2016 release on Steinway & Sons offers five representative piano sonatas by Franz Joseph Haydn.
Irish pianist John O'Conor performs Beethoven's monumental Diabelli Variations on this 2016 release from Steinway & Sons.
Jukka-Pekka Saraste leads the WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln in a radio broadcast performance of Bruckner's Symphony No. 8.
Four amazing self-recorded solo improv concerts captured in Italy in 1996 -- the last before he was sidelined for two years by illness.
Pairs of treatments of the same text are compelling, but less significant than the beauty of the performances themselves.
A pre-Columbian setting of the Orpheus myth, impressively mixing genres, original music, and traditional dance tunes.
The veteran soulman and his crack band switch up to deliver a varied set about the transformational power of love.
An elegant, jazz-styled holiday debut from Hamilton's Aaron Burr that yearns for Christmases out of reach.
A fun, hooky album that balances '60s girl group R&B and contemporary dance-pop.
Klaus Tennstedt's 1991 concert recording of Act I of Wagner's Die Walküre is presented on this CD from the London Philharmonic's archive.
For his fifth solo LP, the Here We Go Magic frontman returns to intimate indie folk with a series of engrossing character sketches.
Fascinating '70s private press deep funk album conceptualized by a Las Vegas hustler and played by a trio of high-school students.
A double album that consciously evokes Metallica's '80s without ever seeming desperate.
A triple-CD/single-DVD set containing everything the pre-grunge Seattle hard rock band ever cut.
Vasily Petrenko and the Oslo Philharmonic present Prokofiev's complete Romeo and Juliet with exceptional sonorities and balanced expressions.
Davis' music is a good deal more subtle than its purely diatonic surfaces and minimalist-like basic thematic material might suggest.
A double-disc distillation of the 28-disc box The Early Years 1965-1972 streamlines the story but is still absorbing.
Inspired by cinematic glamour, the little orchestra's ninth album is another celebration of globally minded pop.
The ever-entertaining showman makes his pop return with his most invigorated and fun effort in years.
Violinist Pierre Fouchenneret and pianist Romain Descharmes perform the complete cycle of Beethoven's sonatas for piano and violin.
Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony perform three evocative orchestral works by Claude Debussy.
First album in nearly 40 years from the U.K. folk icon finds her older but no less commanding in her embrace of traditional songs.
The duo borrow some Top 40 gloss, delivering some of their most pointedly catchy music in the process.
Potent, cathartic, and tender, the third album from the expectation-defying singer, songwriter, and producer weighs a ton and levitates.
Chicago journeyman Jason Narducy and his crew put on a power pop clinic on their sophomore LP.
Written mostly on a desert retreat by leader Josh Hodges, LP four blends infectious dance grooves with wistful detachment.
Terrel Wallace's slightly heavier second album is another fine and modest hip-hop fusion of soul, jazz, and funk.
Both serious in intent and appealing in an almost tactile way, this brass band music doesn't have a weak moment.
A frothy, hooky, new wave and disco-inflected production from the Canadian duo.
Deep overview that covers the group's entire existence, from late-'70s post-punk to early-2010s contemporary synth pop.
The Canadian female punk duo delivers a muscular and defiant sixth LP exploring themes of depression and fear.
On their third album in a year, this Masaki Batoh-led ensemble marries the sounds of their previous dates and breaks through to the other side.
A companion to their A Weird Exits album from earlier in the year, it's a more experimental take on their blown-out and adventurous psych sound.
The group's third album is modern power pop that balances the power and pop perfectly.
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The landmark third album that finds Amos diving headlong into pain and catharsis on a challenging but ultimately rewarding opus.
The German musician and producer delivers an escapist world that harkens back to his early albums.
Valery Gergiev leads the Munich Philharmonic in an exceptional recording of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 2 in C minor, "Resurrection."
The now duo's second album forgoes any shoegaze influence for a chillier, more electronic approach.
The English rockers' fourth LP doubles down on the neo-pagan psych-metal of 2014's Fain with some of their best material to date.
This South London duo smears spiritual jazz funk onto broken beat, hip-hop, and more on their startling full-length debut.
Detroit's art-pop enigmas deliver another stunner with their beautifully honed third album.