Darren Cunningham is joined by a mix of vocalists and instrumentalists, including Vanessa Benelli Mosell and Sampha, on his least esoteric LP.
Compilation showcasing the live tour performances of Queen featuring the former American Idol singer.
Signed to Diplo's label, one-half of AlunaGeorge takes complete control on her gratifying, wide-ranging solo debut.
The singer/songwriter's debut album updates the legacy of outspoken '90s female artists with heartfelt songwriting and a genre-blurring sound.
The debut full-length from this Polish crooner shapes synth pop influences into a thick atmosphere of wistful reflection.
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Kentucky's Southern swamp metal brotherhood realize the fullness of their greasy, swaggering creative potential.
On the band's first studio outing in two decades, they pull out all the stops to reveal there remains plenty of creativity and energy in the tank.
A strikingly virtuosic debut from a major new presence on the wind scene.
On their third album, the duo ratchet up both the rock and disco without losing their down-home identity.
Recorded live in the studio with the E Street Band, this is a celebration of life and a meditation on mortality.
The noise rap trio continue the deep dive into horrorcore that they began on their last album, focusing on themes of paranoia and grisly violence.
The Los Angeles group balance existential dread and classic rock influences on their engagingly literate seventh album.
The onetime Flying Nun and Utility Records act returns with its first material in 30 years, and it's an indie pop gem.
After a brief hiatus, the Baltimore noise rock band return with one of their most focused and powerful albums yet.
The onetime Beverly leader makes an engaging solo debut that recovers from a breakup while drawing on '80s and '90s musical touchstones.
The producer/songwriter's debut is a kinetic, softly subversive triumph designed to make listeners think as well as dance.
A dazzling, previously unheard concert from the acclaimed vocalist recorded two years after her first classic Berlin date.
A restless, adventurous album where Elvis Costello puts a new spin on old tricks.
Rundle and Thou team up for an evocative set that stands at the nexus of doom, gothic rock, post-grunge, and black metal.
A terrific collection of unfamiliar oboe-and-piano pieces rooted in French neoclassicism.
Strong historically-oriented performance that emphasizes the links between Beethoven and music of the French Revolutionary period.
Diversifying in every respect, the multi-instrumentalist and vocalist moves across Latin trap, reggaeton, funk, and other forms with ease.
This prolific neo-jam band distills their wide-ranging creative impulses into relatively compact forms for their most engaging album to date.
An impressive revival of a forgotten 18th century masterpiece by Niccolò Jommelli.
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The companion piece to the restrained acoustic material of Workingman's Dead, and easily the band's studio masterwork, is expanded here with a live set from 1971.
Cut from 200 days of sessions, this West Coast sextet's ambitious, Technicolor debut uses the Beach Boys and Queen merely as launching points.
A large sampling of sacred and secular polyphony, beautifully performed in an acoustically superior Romanesque church.
Masterful debut from the alternative rock duo that fuses angular grooves with glam flair.
A crisp, chamber-sized Beethoven concerto performance with a praiseworthy level of detail.
The vibraphonist's sophomore album of expansive, harmonically and tonally colorful jazz.
Collaborating with producer Mark Hudson, the Badfinger guitarist makes a warm, welcoming coda to his power pop career.
The RHCP guitarist's first purely electronic album under his own name is an impressive set of tracks inspired by jungle and breakbeat hardcore.
A box set containing five discs of unreleased and compelling tapes from Joni Mitchell's years as a folk singer in the mid-1960s.
On her first studio outing in five years, the guitarist teams with a sound designer in delivering a groundbreaking set of instrumentals.
The Georgian-born British singer returns with her most personal and artfully experimental album to date.
An improvised concert from perhaps his final European tour finds the pianist keenly exploring the musical spirits that have informed his career.
An extraordinary choral song cycle by a composer and poet, marking in personal detail the cancer death of the poet's wife.
Exceptionally strong Brahms, with a period piano that catches the complex balances in the composer's two cello sonatas.
Another refreshing and hook-filled jolt of lo-fi, high-excitement indie pop with mod and psych underpinnings.
Executive-produced by Phonte, this EP from the sharp and smooth rapper/singer packs the wallop of an album.
Travis Stewart fuses hip-hop, drum'n'bass, and other genres on an album informed by out-of-body experiences.
The trio's first album in nearly a decade captures the fragmented feel of its namesake year with delicate folk-pop, clattering rock, and open emotion.
The rousing fourth set of island-blasted bliss from Diplo and a cast of international, cross-genre friends.
The second provocative offering from the guitarist's vocal group features new members and three cameos from Robert Wyatt.
The ambient harpist works with Slowdive's Neil Halstead on this album of patient, autumnal instrumentals.
Album four from this Canadian math rock assault team is intelligent and well detailed while still brutally hard.
A moving and culturally relevant plea for indigenous rights marks the Australian band's first release in 18 years.
Quietly powerful document of a 2018 improvised set in Chicago by two longtime collaborators and spiritual travelers.
The band delivers a bracing and vital-sounding re-recording of their 1986 thrash/punk-metal demo.
A powerful, engrossing chamber opera by Gordon based on real-life events.
The band's fourth album sees them adding metal back into their shoegaze sound; the result is almost on par with their brilliant debut.
Inspired by his lifelong love of radio, Daniel Lopatin combines the different facets of his music with a newfound warmth and intimacy.
The debut release by the dystopian minimal synth project of Natalie Hoffmann, co-founder of Memphis garage punks NOTS.
Forgotten German symphonist offers a distinctively optimistic late Romantic style.
Arkansas' psychedelic doom metal merchants balance a back-to-basics approach with melodic invention, prog asides, and fine production.
A raw set of previously unearthed disco and funk covers recorded by the iconic producer between 1975 and 1977.
Drifting, thrilling, and fierce psychedelia with free jazz and prog influences from a trio of Canadian explorers.
Channeling dread, anxiety, and frustration, the electronic-tinged rock trio hold a mirror to society as the world burns.
A vigorous historical-instrument pairing of early Schubert symphonies continues to showcase the talents of the B'Rock Orchestra.
Expert, fully realized Strauss tone poems with a nicely sung and less-familiar set of orchestral songs as a bonus.
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Drawn from a 92-city world tour, the duo perform Mettavolution with incendiary concert favorites, including a 22-minute cover of Pink Floyd's "Echoes."
Composed as his father was dying, the trumpeter and his all-star quintet provide an intimate dialogue of emotional and spiritual resonance.
Amidon's artistry is on full display on a return to folk covers that updates traditional fare as well as more-modern touchpoints like Taj Mahal.
The Utah native delivers a timeless-sounding debut of windblown country-folk grace and rambling melancholia.
For his 85th birthday, Ozawa issues one of the finest Beethoven Sevenths on recordings.
Delicate and spontaneous aren't always words associated with Rachmaninoff, but both qualities are abundant in this lovely recording.
The Brooklyn rapper celebrates fatherhood on this highly autobiographical, jazz-tinged EP.
Working with the Clean's David Kilgour gives the indie pop trio a chance to dig deep into their love of Flying Nun-style pop.
A sharp, dark performance of The Cunning Little Vixen, even without the video accompaniment for which it was created.
Brilliant re-creation of the moment in the early '90s when grunge and power pop collided.
The avant-garde duo's collage-like debut, combining acidic free jazz-fusion, Latin rhythms, and electronics into a vibrant soundscape.
Celebrating 15 years, these New Yorkers bring the horn section back to the front line amid neo-psych, Afro-funk, and swaggering R&B.
In direct response to the global pandemic, the band wrote this sprawling work about isolation while in transcontinental quarantine.
The band's third album is more sweetly hooky dream pop that's stadium huge and bedroom small at the same time.
The experienced producer's first album is a joyous yet introspective fusion of synth-funk, hip-hop, and sci-fi themes.
The Vamps return after a two-year hiatus with a vibrant and sophisticated fourth album.
A clean performance that brings out the many layers of this symphony of love.
The iconic, nonagenarian musician and architect of Mexican jazz delivers a brand-new recording for Gilles Peterson's Brownswood label.
Tom Petty's warm, stripped-down 1994 classic gets an expanded reissue with unreleased songs, demos, and live recordings.
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U2's return to its pre-irony '80s glory days its signature anthemic sound.
A heaping basket of tuneful bubblegum nuggetry from Britain's early-'70s pop market.
Turbo-Shostakovich from conductor Vladimir Jurowski and his well-drilled London Philharmonic.
A fearless Afro-European art-pop gem from 1985 gets a generous reissue with ample bonus tracks.