Judicious catalog-spanning overview of the funk-inspired post-punk band, including a new recording with Barry Adamson.
A hushed, spare, engrossing set of solo songs from the Big Thief leader with production by Luke Temple.
On their third (and best) album, the Rhode Island trio evolve into a sophisticated prog-pop outfit whose bracing arrangements are as ingenious as their hooks.
A brilliantly compiled retrospective of the artist's four-decade career as a recording artist, composer, arranger, and producer.
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The soundtrack to the Bradley Cooper/Lady Gaga remake of the Hollywood classic is filled with expertly executed music.
A solid modern pop album -- the band's best yet -- played with subtle weirdness and full of quietly catchy songs.
The Houston psych-Americana combo turns to elegant textural pop on their Talk Talk-influenced fifth album.
Working with producer Randall Dunn, the band translates its live energy into its rawest, loudest album to date.
On its Roadrunner debut, the quartet expertly revive the Amory Wars concept appealing to longtime fans while drawing new ones.
With the help of his son, Dave Davies revives and polishes lost songs from the 1970s.
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The fourth in a series of box sets chronicling David Bowie's career covers a period that found Bowie at a popular peak yet somewhat creatively adrift.
A collaboration with Croz's "Lighthouse Band" that plays like a soothing, surprising hybrid of Steely Dan, Joni Mitchell, and CSN.
The pianist's dream project of returning to Santiago de Cuba and recording the works of its best composers with a local cast of all-stars.
A wide-angled musical image of a world in flux from the Los Angeles electronic composer and producer.
Dir en Grey may be long in the tooth, but there's still a fire in their belly.
The New York-based saxophonist leaves jazz behind on a date that uses his quartet, singers, and guest players to successfully wed indie and art rock.
After two prolonged battles with cancer, the artist returns with his first studio album in nine years and it's a rocker.
Brief yet explosive collaboration between endlessly creative MC Homeboy Sandman and psych-rap maestro Edan.
A star-studded, topically and musically provocative collaboration between Calle 13's Visitante and Dominican songwriter Vicente Garcia.
A beautifully crafted exercise in mature, sophisticated popcraft that shows the tunesmith's muse is still delivering the goods.
Fun collection of lo-fi electropop songs that combine and blend the unique talents of the three diverse artists perfectly.
The Canadian punk iconoclasts throw musical boundaries to the wind on a sprawling and strikingly accomplished concept album.
Varied and generous left-of-center R&B from the singer, songwriter, and producer, her first proper album in three years.
The Australian lo-fi bedroom pop oddball offers an engaging debut full of oblique humor and an unexpected sweetness.
On album four, the Australian post-hardcore quintet takes steps into arena-ready, pop-friendly territory.
Herbert Blomstedt and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra observe traditionalist and revisionist practices in these Mozart symphonies.
Back for another round of bludgeoning stoner thrash, High on Fire unleash a brass-knuckled haymaker on their eighth studio effort.
An album that's just as impressionistic as Tom Krell's early work, and possibly even more adventurous.
A program of well-worn pieces, connected by a diffuse concept and beautifully done.
Cut live at New York's Jazz Standard, the guitarist's Streams trio quietly astonishes with fluid, spectral improvisation.
Art-pop crooner Jerry Paper expresses the anxiety of living in modern society over smooth, bubbly funk.
The singer/songwriter's fourth album dives into electronic sounds and delivers some of his funniest and most heartbreaking songs.
The veteran singer/songwriter takes a long, deep look into the failings and wrong turns of one man's life.
The EGOT winner's first holiday album, produced by Raphael Saadiq, is joyously nostalgic with no shortcuts taken.
An extraordinary realization of music from an 18th century Peruvian codex, encompassing European, Amerind, and African influences.
German organ music from various eras, exquisitely selected to display the sounds of the Organ of St. Bavo in Haarlem.
The multifaceted artist's sixth album responds to the chaos of 21st century life with some of her most challenging and beguiling music.
Captured in 2006 when the pianist had resumed performing solo concerts, this show is one of breathtaking invention.
The Japanese band's fifth album is less unpredictable and wild than previous efforts, but balances that by being more tuneful and unified.
Leonard's fourth LP explores contemporary society with riveting, exasperated art rock.
The Swiss duo's third album finds them further refining their synth-filled space disco sound into something slick and satisfying.
A fine, fluid performance of Bernstein's second symphony that seems to unfold according to an inner logic.
Scottish singer/songwriter/guitarist rekindles her fire on a viscerally charged triumph of a sixth album.
A decade after Invisible Cinema, the journeyman pianist, bandleader and composer delivers a sequel performed by an illustrious new quartet.
Marie Davidson's fourth solo album is her most introspective but playful work yet, as well as her most sonically daring.
Martyn Brabbins leads the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in a stirring performance of Vaughan Williams' A Sea Symphony.
A sorrowful but defiant LP, produced by Kieran Hebden, with vocals recorded at a Woodstock studio that hosted Don Cherry.
The Orlando Consort continues its survey of the vocal music of Guillaume de Machaut with this sixth volume on Hyperion.
The band step away from their usual soft pop sound to deliver a set of sparse noise pop and shoegaze-inspired songs.
The New York band's debut faithfully recalls the stylish hypnotic tones of Stereolab and other psych-indebted early-'90s indie pop.
Great collection of singles, album tracks, and demos from the early-'90s power pop-meets-psych group co-headed by the Three O'Clock's Michael Quercio.
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A cinematically curated soundtrack to the Queen biopic that leans heavily on live recordings.
A generous sampler of a big box chronicling all of R.E.M.'s BBC sessions.
A semi-popular Passion that is innovative in several respects.
Detailed readings of Chopin's cello sonata and Schubert's arpeggione sonata that live up to the works' Beethovenian roots.
Third album from recently reunited indie punks is their first new material in five years and easily their most mature and confident.
Like the title says, this is everything the mods turned psych pop explorers recorded in their brief career.
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The 25th Anniversary edition of The Cranberries' debut album is a feature-packed four-disc box.
After taking a break that involved Meric Long learning about synths, the guitar-and-drums duo returns with a noisy, invigorated seventh LP.
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The Kinks' nostalgic masterpiece is ground zero for indie rock.
Paying homage to the musical heritage of the City of Angels, HP Gundersen and company deliver an irresistible collection of sophisticated pop.
The Connecticut quartet take a step into uncharted territories of free-form jamming and avant psych on their second strong outing on Trouble in Mind.
The Norwegian singer/songwriter travels to L.A.'s Sunset Sound with producer Larry Klein and a host of studio aces and comes up with a late-night gem.
A fine collection of Windy City art songs from the star baritone.
Doom metal group Thou make a surprising but entirely successful shift into brooding folk on one of several EPs they released in 2018.
Fusing electronic, rap, and rock, the justice-minded guitarist brings his urgent protest music to the dancefloor.
Immersive follow-up to their breakthrough that delves into darker and ultimately more hopeful themes.
The time-traveling metal band's fifth album is a tinny, creepy throwback built of twisted melodies and huge riffs.
Great collection of songs recorded during a time when punk, new wave, and power pop collided to create a sound that's still fresh decades later.
Vilde Frang explores the public and private aspects of her art in Bartók's Violin Concerto No. 1 and Enescu's Octet.
Vladimir Lande and the Siberian State Symphony Orchestra deliver world premiere recordings of Weinberg's Symphony No. 13 and the Serenade.
The Richmond, Virginia-based doom metallers' fifth full-length effort delivers a nuanced and ethereal take on the style.
Most of the quintet from the guitarist's Rising Grace returns -- with Eric Harland on drums -- delivering original tunes in deeply intuitive interplay.