Featured New Releases for
April 11, 2025

Stripped-down and sophisticated songs that touch on folk, R&B, and country as well as Justin Vernon's usual brand of indie folk.

The Tennessean finds an inspired collaborator in producer M. Ward, yielding a deeply textured and memorable album.

Released after her death at age 17, the singer/songwriter's first set of original songs is a bubbly, often poignant glimpse into teenage girlhood.

The singer/songwriter transforms some of her hardest times into transcendent, timeless-sounding expressions of empathy.

The band's entirely self-recorded third album is compellingly weird and relentlessly catchy despite being their most experimental and mercurial yet.

The pianist blends contemporary jazz and DJ-inspired concepts on his deftly experimental third Blue Note album.

The band's satisfyingly dissatisfied, sonically blurry second album bolsters their blend of vintage indie pop, dream pop, shoegaze, and post-punk.

With Primavera en Salonico and Tunisian singer Lamia Bedioui, the Greek vocalist offers a 21st century historical exploration of songs about water.

The third album from Thierry Haliniak's project adds more shoegaze-style guitars to its jangly indie pop sound.

A superbly intimate recording of a late Beethoven sonata is worth the price of admission in itself.

A new opera based on the classic tale of a beloved schoolteacher.

A choice item from this small Czech orchestra's series devoted to Wranitzky.

Works by a composer who almost, but not quite, returned to France's Belle Époque.

Artful program shows not only Brahms' much-touted links to the past but also those pointing to the future.

Old-school Haydn with a big sound, despite moderate choral size, and vivid pictorial effects.