With help from narrator Jack Waterson, the all-analog psych-soul specialist makes a fun, convincing turn toward vintage synthesizer manipulation.
Celebrated Texas singer/songwriter teams up with R.E.M. and Young Fresh Fellows members to cut a strong, adventurous album.
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The reunited band revisits the post-rock meets emo sound it perfected in 1999, sounding more experienced but otherwise about the same.
Expanded reissue of the singer's 1972 debut remains the best showcase for her talents as a performer and interpretive vocalist.
The band keep chugging along, releasing yet another album's worth of top-notch indie rock.
Obsessive and definitive examination of the creation of Alex Chilton's eccentric, damaged masterpiece.
Now a solo project, the cold wave act's second record is a little less murky, a little more sunny, but still very synthy.
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On their second killer live album, the Oslo power trio are augmented by saxophonist Kjetil Moster and keyboardist David Wallumrod.
Widmann clarifies a good deal of the music and participates in the continuing case being made for Schumann's concerto.
The Swedish singer/songwriter's poignant seventh album is a stand for love, family, and community in a time of doubt and chaos.
Colbie Caillat goes independent and gets back to her sunny, breezy roots on The Malibu Sessions.
The duo's sixth album trades out guitars in favor of keyboards, but keeps all the dirty, spooky bubblegum hooks intact.
The Australian art-pop auteur introduces a unique vision on his vibrant and ambitious debut.
Daniil Trifonov is in his element in Liszt's Transcendental Etudes, which allow him to demonstrate his brilliant virtuosity and deeply reflective character.
The band's third album is dipped in sunshine and full of sleekly warm modern pop.
A two-disc overview containing all of the singer's charting 1978-1986 singles, including "Shame" and "Love Come Down."
Krenek synthesizes a range of expressive devices to portray a modern individual for whom a vacation just raises deeper issues.
The punk rock trio's second album adds some raw power to their brief and agitated songs.
An early 19th century anthology of anthems, glees, and opera and oratorio excerpts, the music here is guaranteed to please.
Berlin-based musician and visual artist Heimer's debut solo full-length is an incredibly fun, inventive set of playful yet reflective glitch-hop.
M.C. Taylor and friends expand their sound and embrace rootsy southern soul, R&B, and bluesy gospel in their finest set to date.
Most comprehensive compilation to date by American funk septet who've been sampled by everyone from Public Enemy to Flying Lotus.
The Australian duo's second album is just as danceably psychedelic and steeped in the '90s as their debut, though a little more focused and direct.
Modern, family-man soul from the singer and producer, assisted by musicians including Daru Jones and Pino Palladino.
The Arizona emo-rock stalwarts modernize their sound with shimmering production, indie rock flair, and refreshing experimental flourishes.
John Eliot Gardiner leads the London Symphony Orchestra in two of Mendelssohn's symphonies, presented on hybrid SACD and Blu-ray disc.
Gorgeous and moving soul-folk chronicle by a young couple navigating the highs and lows of marriage and family.
Smoky vocals, discontent, and a presence that's mature beyond her twenty-something years distinguish this debut, which struggles with aging.
Michael Torke's Three Manhattan Bridges and Winter's Tale are post-minimalist concertos presented with high energy on this 2016 Albany release.
The country singer goes mid-century modern with a wink on this swinging, clever Christmas album.
Debut from a categorically evasive singer, songwriter, and instrumentalist whose approach evokes comparisons to bygone chamber soul and British folk acts.
A gorgeously rendered, winter-themed album featuring Melua backed by the Gori Women's Choir.
The Tennessee outfit's seventh studio album is a loose, inspired set that balances youthful energy with a hard-won, literate maturity.
The nu-metal godfathers make a welcome return to basics on their best album in a decade.
The acclaimed jazz vocalist's first full album of holiday-themed music is as literate and nuanced as his previous work.
A reading that a mid- to late-career artist often produces: careful, flawless, and born of deep acquaintance with the music.
On his 14th album, the 82-year-old singer/songwriter looks into the void, wrestles with himself, God, and love with unflinching honesty.
Includes 16 memorable albums (released from 1972 to 1986), newly remastered under the supervision of the New York rock icon.
Now a full-fledged band, the project's second album mixes soul, jazz, dub, and post-punk with stream-of-consciousness abandon.
Excerpts from Marek Janowski's live performances of Wagner's music dramas are presented on two hybrid SACDs by PentaTone.
A cantata with comic components, unlike anything else Bach ever wrote, in a typically attractive entry in Suzuki's series.
The neo-crooner balances swinging old-school glitz and romance with an ear for contemporary pop hooks and modern studio production.
Reuniting with Steve Albini, the Japanese post-rock quartet go back to basics and deliver their noisiest and most emotional album yet.
The composer and indie singer/songwriter team up for 14 songs inspired by mundane home videos from the early days of YouTube.
Osmo Vänskä completes his second cycle of the symphonies of Jean Sibelius, this time with the Minnesota Orchestra in an audiophile showcase.
Markus Popp unexpectedly reinvents his Oval project as an ecstatic post-rave mutation, producing his best work since the early 2000s.
The mazurkas selected here are an excellent pick for Kolesnikov's deliberate yet playful style.
Non-chronological double-disc set of Phil Collins' singles focuses attention on the hits that weren't necessarily chart-toppers.
The main attraction is Jaroussky's instrument itself, undiminished by a decade in the classical Top Ten.
A Place for Us to Dream delivers the kind of easy, bullet point retrospective that newbies and casual fans can get behind.
Chrissie Hynde revives the Pretenders name for this soulful, swaggering collaboration with Black Key Dan Auerbach.
Jangling indie pop done in the classic C-86 style by energetic young Minnesota-based band.
Venus and Adonis, a masque by the German-born English transplant Johann Christoph Pepusch, is presented in a lively period re-creation.
Ambitious four-album set from the New Zealand-based experimental guitarist, ranging from wry, bitter ruminations to cosmic head trips.
Simon Rattle leads the Australian World Orchestra in a traditional but compelling performance of Anton Bruckner's massive Symphony No. 8.
The Montreal band's fourth album finds them successfully adding some space and restraint to their poppy punk sound.
A bold and relevant 21st century pop record chronicling the American experience.
The Emeralds co-founder's fourth solo album for Kranky balances calmness with darker, more fearful moments.
A well-produced, very focused, and politically relevant album that isn't afraid to laugh in the face of prejudice.
The Canterbury prog-psych quartet shakes things up on its synth-heavy, pop-forward third effort.
Bruno Weil leads the Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra and Chamber Choir in a period performance of Beethoven's Ninth.
The trumpeter's kinetic funk-jazz and Afrobeat-infused follow-up to his 2009 breakthrough Rising Son.
The trio's third album strips away the punk guitars (mostly) and replaces them with rich, power pop-inspired arrangements.
Simultaneously homey and fabulous, Home on Native Land introduces country, folk, and pedal steel-driven Canadiana into the band's lexicon.
Midwest pop supergroup ups the ante with a sophomore album that tops their debut in all respects.
A couple of teens made an album that sounds like Sparks playing the Harry Nilsson catalog, only weirder.
Arriving 25 years after their seminal debut, the Orb offer a sort of peaceful protest with their spontaneously recorded 14th album.
Lush and dreamy collaboration between members of the Friendly Fires and the Advisory Circle, built around woody synths and machine soul.
After a six-year wait between albums, the duo returns with an impressive batch of politically charged, dance music-inspired modern pop.
Three transitional works by Igor Stravinsky -- L'Histoire du soldat, the Octet, and Les noces -- are presented on this 2016 Naxos release.
Triumphant solo debut from the Keane frontman that charts his painful journey from rock bottom to an optimistic, post-addiction future.
A marvelous Pärt collection, with flawless and entirely idiomatic sound from the Tallinn Transfiguration Church.
The composer and his Golden Quintet deliver a masterwork examining the central ideas behind our National Parks and his own.
The Austrian guitarist expands his trio to a quintet in a relaxed yet dazzling series of new tunes and leaves plenty of room for solos.
Yannick Nézet-Séguin's critically praised series of Bruckner's symphonies continues with this warm and expressive performance of the Symphony No. 2.