Gorgeous commissioned work for a Wayne McGregor Random Dance production that also functions as the ambient-neoclassical duo's second album.
For many listeners, the chief attraction here from among various similar releases will be the presence of the venerable English Concert under Bicket.
With Paris, Alison Balsom reaches a transcendent new level, with music ranging from elegant to moody to profound.
The group's third album is another well-constructed, heartfelt, and true slice of simple and sophisticated indie pop for adults.
The last of the Pistol Annies to deliver a solo album offers a richly detailed, deceptively relaxed portrait of middle class America in 2014.
The Seattle Opera's live Ring has been presented as a 14-CD box set, a digital download, and as online streaming.
A marvelous introduction to Bessie Jones and the treasure that is Georgia Sea Island folk music.
The guitarist and his band take on rock, country, blues, and surf guitar music from the late '50s and early '60s, rework it, and deliver a fun record.
Pianist/composer David Moore's enchanting minimalist chamber ensemble delivers a graceful and pastoral second album.
The drummer/composer delivers his masterwork: five concertos for scored percussion and improvising soloists.
The husband-and-wife banjoists deliver an intimate, edifying, and progressive dialogue on musical tradition with standards and originals.
Sixth album from this experimental electronic artist is easily his most straightforwardly dancey.
Most of the studio band from 2013's Solar Motel returns to help the guitarist explore more instrumental stylistic hybrids in powerful compositions.
Building on Dear Miss Lonelyhearts' success, the band delivers some of its most engaging, confident music since Robbers & Cowards.
This Deutsche Grammophon box set is an important release, marking the first time Daniel Barenboim has recorded Schubert's complete piano sonatas.
A fine return to secular R&B, produced and written almost entirely by Warryn Campbell and Eric Dawkins.
The ECM debut by this up-and-coming pianist offers a bold jazzman's take on Afro-Cuban ritual music that is at once striking and deeply moving.
On his second solo album, the guitarist heads to Chicago and delivers an album that melds electric blues, vintage R&B, and rock.
Nearly as thrilling as the volume that preceded it, the techno maverick compiles more of his remix work for Herbert, Caribou, Ada, and others.
The second album from Viennese producer and musician Oliver Johnson is a beatific trip filled with spiraling melodies.
This traditional country singer/songwriter delivers a knockout debut after nearly two decades of homelessness and street singing.
Second album from this indie rock quartet sounds both laid-back and attentive as they mix rock, pop, electronics, and grooves.
The Canadian roots trio's fifth LP is as dark and daring as it is warm-hearted.
Sophisticated, rebellious, startling late-'90s recordings from members of Meridian Brothers, Ondatropica, Frente Cumbeiro, and more.
The Kings of Convenience singer collaborates with Icelandic reggae group Hjálmar on his wonderfully charming sophomore release.
Alex Cuervo's second album of eerie instrumentals blurs the line between soundtracks and pop music even more artfully.
Evocative and ambitious debut from the Australian electronic production duo.
A warm, breezy, and soulful set of R&B-kissed country-pop confections featuring the legendary Hi Rhythm Section.
The New Zealand dream folk duo charmingly mix wistful chamber pop and the warm sounds of British folk on their debut LP.
In his performances of Shostakovich's violin concertos, Christian Tetzlaff shows a clear respect for the performance tradition David Oistrakh started.
The Michigan group returns to its experimental roots, delivering a dazzling, bittersweet set inspired by prog rock and Hammer horror.
With hooks, punchlines, and swagger all in abundance, the follies of youth sound utterly fly on the pop-rapper's debut.
The band's spirited fifth outing may not be a party record, but it makes a noble attempt to mingle with its guests.
Second album of gorgeous and mysteriously distant pop from these occasional Mount Eerie collaborators.
The lone and long out of print release from the electropop supergroup featuring members of Jellyfish and Redd Kross.
There's plenty of competent and forgotten music in this welcome addition to the small but growing corpus of recordings of Chaminade's music.
Quickly written and recorded sequel to the Smiths guitarist's first solo album is a stylish, visceral rush.
An 11-track assault of sugary, feel-good millennial pop confections that sound like Ben Folds devoid of all cynicism.
Subtle, beautifully performed collaboration between the influential jazz pianist and bassist.
Second solo album from former Woods member blends roots rock arrangements and passionate storytelling.
Süssmayr's completion of Mozart's Requiem receives a remarkable period treament from Laurence Equilbey, Accentus, and the period orchestra Insula.
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Expanded reissue features a second disc of alternate mixes and instrumentals that mirrors the original tracklisting.
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Zep's towering classic--the ultimate distillation of the band's epic blues--echoing from the Mississippi Delta to Middle Earth.
A classically minded, thoroughly modern collection of lush, adult alternative pop from the actress.
The quartet throws out the rule book on this restless, unpredictable country-pop record.
A creative and enticing release from Mark Van Hoen and Louis Sherman that recalls the mid- to late-'70s works of Harmonia, Cluster, and Brian Eno.
No guest artists or filler to be found on the Maryland rapper's stunning autobiographical debut album.
On her sophomore offering, the Danish pedal steel guitarist and songwriter creates an intimate and powerful portrait of loss.
The band's second post-comeback album is another bracing and inventive blast of modern shoegaze and noise pop.
The New Orleans fixture returns with a set of songs perfectly balanced between blobby electronics and fired-up garage rock.
Sans strings and piano, the Japanese quartet unveil welcome, more sinister sonic aspects on their companion to The Last Dawn.
The aptly named, anonymous group deliver dramatic electro-pop that already rivals their better-known contemporaries.
'70s and '80s disco-, R&B-, and electro-infused debut from the Los Angeles outfit.
A Don Was-assisted returned to show biz schmaltz for the veteran singer/songwriter
Brooklyn garage punks evoke classic power pop on their third album, an ambitious and impressive two-LP set.
Arriving 20 years after their debut album, the band's Burger Records debut is as fuzzy, trippy, and bittersweet as ever.
Indie dub duo peel back even more of the lo-fi film on this clearer, more beat-minded fourth album.
On her fourth -- and strongest -- album, the singer/songwriter and band deliver seven fine originals and three choice covers.
Pharmakon veers her punishing sound in a more viscerally unsettling direction on her second album for Sacred Bones.
Celebrated guitarist and singer pays homage to one of her key influences on this splendid acoustic blues session.
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Instead of reproducing the original classic album, this 40th anniversary version presents the tour's Cork show in its entirety for the first time.
Idiosyncratic singer and songwriter gets a new band and a new sound, but holds onto her powerful voice and soul-baring songs.
Ranting Canadian punk band hits the jackpot with this smart, literate, and furiously satisfying debut album.
The duo's singles collection delivers more scathing, punk-meets-hip-hop takedowns of bad music and social injustice.
When David heard that Absalom was slain is given a hushed, genuinely tragic atmosphere, and the choir's emotional range under Nethsingha is impressive.
The Canadian pop veterans' seventh album is another compelling and big-hearted affair full of dancefloor hooks and warm guitar pop.
On his second Paradise of Bachelors offering, the artist artfully and ambitiously showcases his increasing confidence as a singer/songwriter.
With the help of Dave Stewart, Nicks finishes off songs largely written in the late '70s and early '80s.
The pairing of artists renowned for experimentation yields a strangely melodic, often thunderous offering equal to the sum of its parts.
Celebrating the 50-year career of the original Tuff Girl in 82 songs; includes her major glam rock hits and lots of creative detours.
The duo's second full-length expands on Be Strong's '90s dance revival with hypnotic South African influences and more thoughtful, kinetic songs.
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Reissue of the band's purposefully difficult, ambitious major label debut adds a second disc of demos, instrumentals and covers.
The short-lived but groundbreaking indie/chamber pop band's comparatively raw debut album.
Second album from this beloved and influential indie pop group moved toward more orchestrated chamber pop.
Eerie yet melodic, this third and final album from the '60s pop-inspired indie pop act would also be the group's best.
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On its fantastic fourth album, the ten- piece unit shifts gears, embracing stoner psych and soundtrack funk in its signature sound.
Recorded in 2006 but shelved until 2014, the album presents a spooky, low-key direction the band could have pursued.
Archival collection from the pioneering post-punk band is as challenging and powerful as when it was recorded in 1978/1980.
The group's second post-reunion album is all original songs played with the same noisy pop brilliance they had in the '80s.
Fourth album from this '60s-obsessed garage outfit sounds the most authentically vintage of them all.
The band's fifth album offers some of its most musically and emotionally rich explorations of heartache yet.
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Solid double-disc collection of the basics from the Who, enlivened by a couple of left-field choices and the new "Be Lucky."
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15-track sampler from this Virginia-based band whose command of vintage folk rock and jangle pop is practically flawless.
The great African drummer teams with the Jazzbastards for his first recording in seven years, and it's a stone killer.
Relaxed collaboration between members of Mazes and Veronica Falls mixes parts of each band and comes out a winner.
The British singer/songwriter releases her third -- and claims final -- album. Self-produced and edited, it is a tender, poignant masterpiece.
Fun and enlightening re-recording of Northern Soul-inspired lost demos made in 1979 by the underrated post-punk icon.
For established fans of Ashkenazy, his personality comes through here in full, and he seems to wrestle with Bach in the way true greats do.
Wax Witches' Alex Wall delivers a smashing tribute to the yearning isolation of youth with a surprisingly subdued and muscular album.
Working with producer Paul Savage, the Scottish group delivers some of its most vivid, hardest-hitting songs yet.
Rivers Cuomo and company reunite with producer Ric Ocasek and go back to their roots on this big, hooky, eccentric record.
Fantastic second album from this formerly noisy folk project steps up in terms of clarity and emotional weight.
JR Robinson and his large collective deliver a powerful new work that combines ambient, metal vanguard composition, and drones.
The Dirty Three's drummer and a virtuoso Cretan lutist assemble in a recording studio and create dizzying, kinetic, original music.
For this 2014 ATMA Classique release, Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Orchestre Métropolitaine perform the first version of Bruckner's Third Symphony.