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The Starrr of the Queen of Life
Debby Friday
The Starrr of the Queen of Life
Sub Pop
Electronic, Pop/Rock, Rap
The Polaris Prize winner's celestially inspired second album is both more introspective and hedonistic than her debut.
- Paul Simpson
Maybe I'm Dreaming
Various Artists
Maybe I'm Dreaming
Anthology Recordings
Pop/Rock, Folk
The fourth volume in this compilation series of unknown soft rock artists from the '70s and '80s focuses on even deeper obscurities from private press recordings.
- Fred Thomas
Underwater Moonlight [45th Anniversary Edition]
The Soft Boys
Underwater Moonlight [45th Anniversary Edition]
Glowing Green Frog / Tiny Ghost Records
Pop/Rock
A 45th anniversary remaster including a 20 page booklet with liner notes from David Fricke and Robyn Hitchcock.
Antonio Salieri: Cublai, Gran Kan de' Tartari
Christophe Rousset / Choeur de Chambre de Namur / Les Talens Lyriques
Antonio Salieri: Cublai, Gran Kan de' Tartari
Aparte
Classical
An unusually topical Salieri opera that was banned shows something of musical satire in Mozart's time.
- James Manheim
Unraveled: Homage to Maurice Ravel
Kebyart
Unraveled: Homage to Maurice Ravel
Linn Records
Classical
With its roots in Baroque style, Ravel's music proves an unexpectedly good match for saxophone quartet.
- James Manheim
Scriabin: Symphony No. 3 ("Le Divin Poème")
Kazushi Ono / Brussels Philharmonic Orchestra
Scriabin: Symphony No. 3 ("Le Divin Poème")
EPR-Classic
Classical
A fine rendering of this difficult symphony from musicians and engineers alike.
- James Manheim
Electric Fields
Barbara Hannigan / David Chalmin / Katia Labèque / Marielle Labèque
Electric Fields
Alpha
Avant-Garde, Classical
A convincing mixture of medieval and Renaissance female-composed music with electronics that shows them fitting together at multiple levels.
- James Manheim
Beethoven & Kreutzer: Septets
Felix Klieser / Sebastian Manz / Theo Plath
Beethoven & Kreutzer: Septets
CAvi-music
Classical
Elegant performance of Beethoven's Septet, together with a much less common work that is closely modeled on it.
- James Manheim

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Another Thought
AllMusic Staff Pick – August 1, 2025
Arthur Russell
Another Thought
1994
Experimental
Released a few years after Russell's death in 1992, Another Thought was one of the first of what would be many posthumous excavations of the multidimensional New York artist's extensive archive of unreleased tapes. It does a great job of showing just how wildly diverse Russell could be, zooming between avant-garde cello ambiance, would-be pop, and not-quite disco tracks while remaining cohesive by way of the artist's one-of-a-kind creative vision, the thread that connected it all.
- Fred Thomas
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