New Reviews for April 18, 2025

Send a Prayer My WayEditor's choice
Julien Baker / Torres
Send a Prayer My Way
Matador
Pop/Rock
The singer/songwriters reclaim the sounds of their childhood with heartfelt queer country songs that bring out the best in their music.
- Heather Phares
Coastal: The Soundtrack
Neil Young
Coastal: The Soundtrack
Reprise
Pop/Rock, Stage & Screen
The soundtrack to a film about a Neil Young solo tour captures the great contrarian sounding weathered but fully engaged.
- Mark Deming
What Did the Blackbird Say to the CrowEditor's choice
Rhiannon Giddens / Justin Robinson
What Did the Blackbird Say to the Crow
Nonesuch
Country, Folk, Pop/Rock
A joyful, rootsy reunion of banjo and fiddle tunes between the former Carolina Chocolate Drops bandmates.
- Matt Collar
Electric WarEditor's choice
Malcolm Catto / Little Barrie
Electric War
Concord / Easy Eye Sound
Pop/Rock
Another heady dose of psychedelic funk from the high-octane pairing of the Heliocentrics' drummer and guitar hero Barrie Cadogan's band.
- Tim Sendra
Thunderball
Melvins
Thunderball
Ipecac
Pop/Rock
The grunge pioneers team with their first drummer and two noise musicians to add new wrinkles to their legacy of heaviness.
- Mark Deming
Thee Black BoltzEditor's choice
Tunde Adebimpe
Thee Black Boltz
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The TV on the Radio frontman continues his musical legacy with his passionate, imaginative, musically restless solo debut.
- Heather Phares
Adrian Younge Presents Something About April IIIEditor's choice
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Linear Labs
R&B
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.
- Andy Kellman
A Study of LossesEditor's choice
Beirut
A Study of Losses
Pompeii
Pop/Rock, Stage & Screen
A sweetly melancholy set of chamber folk songs and instrumentals for a circus show about a man who catalogs lost thoughts and creations.
- Marcy Donelson

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Vocalist Sofia Camara makes refined pop music that often takes the form of aching, emotionally driven balladry. The Portuguese-Canadian singer broke out in a big way with the viral success of her 2024 single "Who Do I Call Now? (Hellbent)," and soon she was performing in front of enormous audiences as her global star power grew. She released her debut EP, Was I(t) Worth It?, in March of 2025. Sofia Camara was born in Toronto, and she grew up listening…  Read More

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Misty
September 7, 2004
Hard Bop
Recorded in 1965 at Copenhagen's Montmartre Jazzhus, this live concert by tenor saxophone legend Dexter Gordon was the third of five radio broadcasts the tenor man did for Danish radio. Although many believe that Gordon was at a creative peak during the time period of this set, Misty comes from an unfortunately fallow period for him in the studio, as he would only make one album, Setting the Pace with saxophonist Booker Ervin, that same year. Consequently, these recordings stand as previously unissued testaments to the muscular and tender mid-career brilliance of Gordon.
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