Featured New Releases for
April 18, 2025
Matador
The singer/songwriters reclaim the sounds of their childhood with heartfelt queer country songs that bring out the best in their music.
Reprise
The soundtrack to a film about a Neil Young solo tour captures the great contrarian sounding weathered but fully engaged.
Nonesuch
A joyful, rootsy reunion of banjo and fiddle tunes between the former Carolina Chocolate Drops bandmates.
Concord / Easy Eye Sound
Another heady dose of psychedelic funk from the high-octane pairing of the Heliocentrics' drummer and guitar hero Barrie Cadogan's band.
Ipecac
The grunge pioneers team with their first drummer and two noise musicians to add new wrinkles to their legacy of heaviness.
Sub Pop
The TV on the Radio frontman continues his musical legacy with his passionate, imaginative, musically restless solo debut.
Linear Labs
The do-it-all ends his romantic psychedelic soul trilogy with a 30-piece orchestra and a cast of Brazilian vocalists singing his Portuguese lyrics.
Pompeii
A sweetly melancholy set of chamber folk songs and instrumentals for a circus show about a man who catalogs lost thoughts and creations.
Deathgod
This collaborative project between Thee Oh Sees' John Dwyer and foundational punk drummer David Barbarossa channels the influence of early outsider punk and no wave.
Believe Direct Limited / Bella Union
Intense and uncompromising yet compassionate sludge metal from guitarist/saxophonist Takiaya Reed and collaborators.
Smalltown Supersound
One of the most joyous, uplifting releases in Chicago house veteran Jamal Moss' endless discography.
Tough Love
Dark, murky, experimental, and bleak, the band's second album hovers menacingly between gloom and doom, while occasionally rocking out pretty hard.
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Resonance
Drawn from two concerts on his 1977 South American tour, this previously unissued set showcases a stellar, if undercelebrated, quintet.
Resonance
The legendary trumpeter leads his quintet on this hard-swinging live 1967 archival recording.
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Resonance
A previously unreleased, scorching 1967 set by the trumpeter with Bennie Maupin, Herbie Lewis, Freddie Waits, and Kenny Barron.
Various Artists
Cherry Red
Four-CD deep dive into the 1970s German underground, encompassing prog, psychedelic, hard rock, and experimental electronics.
Various Artists
Strawberry
An exceedingly well-chosen collection of mostly obscure tracks from the mid- to late-'60s U.K. music scene that's equally good for research or having a good time.
Strawberry
This once-abandoned multi-disc set offers a great-sounding retrospective with unissued tracks, diving deep into her most creative period.
Cherry Red
The space rockers continue a late-career renaissance with their most focused, holistic album in decades, completing a 2020s synth-focused trilogy.
Kill Rock Stars
The Chicago art rock duo move beyond the chaotic electronic collages of their earlier work on this shadowy, interconnected set of songs.
Virgin
The electronic bon vivants' third LP is more song-based and collaborative than their earlier efforts.
Ghostly International
The bedroom producer/songwriter moves further from his instrumental hip-hop beginnings with these vividly personal songs guided by the spirit of 2000s indie rock.
Winspear
The indie duo leave '80s pop and keyboards behind for a more experimental album rooted in spiky, angular 2000s guitar rock.
Harmonia Mundi
An excellent recording of the complete Pulcinella, perhaps close to Stravinsky's intentions.
Naxos
Sheer register-blurring virtuosity makes for a convincing reading of Rachmaninov's Piano Sonata No. 1 in D minor, Op. 28.
Deutsche Grammophon
Charismatic takes on the Ravel concertos capture the strong jazz orientation of, especially, the Piano Concerto No. 2 in G major.
Cappella Romana
A composer of music that investigates Orthodox traditions turns attention to the current Ukrainian situation.
Chandos
Quartets present many of the ideas of this Polish composer in concise form.
PentaTone Classics
The great jazz trumpeter's most elaborate classical composition finds its proper interpreters after some years.