Featured New Album Releases

Wet Leg

Moisturizer

Domino

Pop/Rock

The band's first album as a five-piece goes beyond virally catchy singles with witty, heartfelt love songs for people who don't want to fall in love.

— Heather Phares

The Weeknd

Hurry Up Tomorrow [Original Motion Picture Score] [2 CD]

Republic / XO Records

R&B, Pop/Rock, Stage & Screen

Production from Oneohtrix Point Never gives this score for The Weeknd's somewhat autobiographical film a heavy, dystopian feel.

Clipse

Let God Sort Em Out

Roc Nation

Rap

Sixteen years after their last album, this legendarily furious rap duo hold on to their intensity while exhibiting moments of newfound refinement.

— Fred Thomas

Gwenno

Utopia

Heavenly / Heavenly Recordings

Pop/Rock

The Welsh singer/songwriter sets aside electronics (mostly) on this alternately down-to-earth and ambitious set of warmly emotional and introspective songs.

— Tim Sendra

Barry Can't Swim

Loner

Ninja Tune

Electronic, Pop/Rock

The U.K. producer's second album contains several club bangers along with lush, sentimental material similar to his debut.

— Paul Simpson

Dionne Warwick

Make It Easy on Yourself: The Scepter Recordings 1962-1971

Second Disc Records / SoulMusic

R&B, Vocal

Devotedly assembled and chock-full of rarities, this thorough 12-disc box is testament to the incomparable singer's greatness beyond the hits.

— Andy Kellman

Ali Shaheed Muhammad / Dom Salvador / Adrian Younge

Dom Salvador JID024

Jazz Is Dead

R&B, International, Jazz

The collaboration between Brazilian piano legend and the JID crew offers a kaleidoscopic encounter with American jazz, samba, and Afro-Latin funk.

— Thom Jurek

Allo Darlin'

Bright Nights

Slumberland

Pop/Rock

Warm and tuneful throughout, the indie pop group's first album in 11 years sounds a little more reflective but otherwise like they never left.

— Marcy Donelson

Autocamper

What Do You Do All Day?

Safe Suburban Home Records / Slumberland

Pop/Rock

Sprightly indie pop derived from classic sounds of the past but given new life thanks to the uneasy balance between the two vocalists.

— Tim Sendra

Mike Polizze

Around Sound

Paradise of Bachelors

Pop/Rock

The second solo album from this Philly artist is stormy, meditative, and quietly powerful even in its mostly acoustic rendering.

— Fred Thomas

Ólafur Arnalds / Talos

A Dawning

Mercury KX / Opia Community

Pop/Rock

Somber, poignant collaboration that was completed shortly after the Irish singer/songwriter's untimely death.

— Paul Simpson

Jessica Winter

My First Album

Lucky Number

Pop/Rock, Electronic

Dance-oriented alt-pop dominates a mercurial yet self-assured debut from the songwriter/producer and onetime member of PREGOBLIN.

— Marcy Donelson

Circling Sun

Orbits

Soundway

Jazz

The sophomore outing from this polyrhythmic South Pacific spiritual jazz outfit crisscrosses Brazilian, Latin American, and African grooves with joyful results.

— Thom Jurek