Featured New Releases for
September 6, 2024

Born Horses
Believe Direct Limited / Believe Music / Bella Union
Informed by free jazz and beat poetry, the band's first album in a decade is a swirl of transcendent sounds, brilliant imagery, and deep feeling.
- Heather Phares
Luck and StrangeEditors' Choice
Sony Music
A richly detailed late-career highlight from the veteran singer and guitarist, whose family joins him on several songs.
- Timothy Monger
Hole ErthEditors' Choice
Dead Oceans
Trying out yet another new style, Chaz Bundick sure-handedly whips up a dreamlike mix of cloud rap, nocturnal trap, chillwave, shoegaze, and emo pop.
- Tim Sendra
Viva Hinds
Lucky Number
Now a duo, the band replace the pop gloss of their previous album with a slightly darker, still quite hooky modern indie rock sound.
- Tim Sendra
Free EnergyEditors' Choice
Trouble in Mind
The band's second album sees them altering their shoegaze-Stereolab template to get more experimental as they add avant-garde, new age, and dance music elements.
- Tim Sendra
KosmosEditors' Choice
Luaka Bop
The Danish duo's relaxing and sonically atmospheric third album of spacey dub jazz for Luaka Bop.
- Matt Collar
EndlessnessEditors' Choice
Warp
An enlightening and awe-inspiring second effort from the visionary composer, harpist, and modular synth player.
- Paul Simpson
Belaya Polosa
Sacred Bones
The Belarusian trio's expansive fourth album sounds closer to '90s Depeche Mode and futurepop than their early, lo-fi work.
- Paul Simpson
Everything in the End
Shelflife
A spaced-out, deeply immersive fourth album from the Pacific Northwest dream pop group.
- Paul Simpson
One of a KindEditors' Choice
ATO
The Will Turner-led U.K. duo dial up the charm on a debut LP full of nostalgia-activating could-be-hits steeped in mid- and late-'60s influences.
- Marcy Donelson
Migratory
Erased Tapes Records
An immersive, tranquil reflection on the natural world from the Japanese composer, vibraphonist, and marimba player.
- Paul Simpson
Chopin, Beethoven: Sonatas - Funeral March, Hammerklavier
Warner Classics
Two famous sonatas in an unusual pairing and in distinctive readings
- James Manheim
Gluck: Orfeo & Euridice
Erato
A fine Gluck performance powered by one of the rising countertenors of the day.
- James Manheim
Robert Saxton: Scenes from the Epic of Gilgamesh
Nimbus Alliance
The latest installment in the "21st Century Symphony Project" offers two works not named as such.
- Keith Finke
Magnificat 4
Signum Classics
The final volume in this series devoted to the Magnificat and Nunc dimittis genre sums up the effort nicely.
- James Manheim
Weinberg, Vol. 4: String Quartets Nos. 6, 13, and 15
Chandos
Excellent performances, to the restrained side, of works by Weinberg that diverge totally from Shostakovich.
- James Manheim
Grace Williams: Songs
Naxos
A wonderful revival, all world premieres, of songs by an underrated Welsh composer.
- James Manheim
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