Alice Cooper

The Revenge of Alice Cooper

Ear Music

Pop/Rock

The surviving members of the original Alice Cooper band reunite for their first album in 50 years, revisiting their shock-rock prime and breaking new ground.

— Fred Thomas

Madonna

Veronica Electronica

Pop/Rock, Electronic

Remix EP that transforms a handful of Ray of Light tracks with the help of some big turn-of-the-millennium electronic producers.

— Neil Z. Yeung

Paul Weller

Find El Dorado

Parlophone / PLG

Pop/Rock

The British rock icon's second official album of cover songs features both obscure and prized pop gems.

— Matt Collar

Talking Heads

More Songs About Buildings and Food [Super Deluxe Edition]

Rhino

Pop/Rock

America's leading art school band get tighter, smarter, and funkier on this expanded version of their brilliant second album.

— Mark Deming

Peter Buck / Luke Haines

Going Down to the River...To Blow My Mind

Cherry Red

Pop/Rock

More songs about commonplace madness from the Auteurs/Black Box Recorder and R.E.M. leaders that deliver good bitter fun.

— Mark Deming

Fever Ray

The Year of the Radical Romantics

Rabid

Pop/Rock, Electronic

Recorded live to tape, this riveting document of the Radical Romantics tour uncovers new layers within Fever Ray's music.

— Heather Phares

Patty Griffin

Crown of Roses

PGM

Folk, Pop/Rock

The singularly gifted singer and songwriter uses a turbulent time in her life as the basis for a set of songs full of empathy and wisdom.

— Mark Deming

Post Animal

IRON

Polyvinyl

Pop/Rock

A more sentimental, AOR-leaning fourth album from the good-natured psych-rockers, who welcome back original member Joe Keery (TV's Stranger Things).

— Marcy Donelson

Night Moves

Double Life

Domino

Pop/Rock

The twangy Minneapolis rock outfit embrace a little disco style and synthy sophistication on their fourth album.

— Matt Collar

Cory Hanson

I Love People

Drag City

Pop/Rock

The Wand bandleader moves away from psychedelic weirdness in favor of delicately arranged soft rock and '70s-styled singer/songwriter fare on his fourth solo album.

— Fred Thomas

Folk Bitch Trio

Now Would Be a Good Time

Jagjaguwar

Pop/Rock

A relentless plaintiveness and chills-inducing three-part harmonies distinguish the debut of this indie folk group from Melbourne.

— Marcy Donelson

Highspire

Crushed

Shelflife

Pop/Rock

The Philly shoegaze outfit returns with their sonically and emotionally potent third album.

— Matt Collar

Indigo De Souza

Precipice

Loma Vista

Pop/Rock

Without relinquishing the candid content of her lyrics, the indie rocker sought out pop producers for her fourth LP, with catchy but diluted results.

— Marcy Donelson

Dominique Fils-Aimé

Live at the Montreal International Jazz Festival

Ensoul

Jazz, R&B

The revered Canadian singer and composer reimagines her discography in a riveting, sold-out concert.

— Thom Jurek

The Philharmonic Brass / Riccardo Muti

Italiana!

Supreme / Supreme Classics

Classical

An effective revival of the brass ensemble tradition with a collection of virtuoso operatic and orchestral pieces.

— James Manheim

Anita Hartig / Kang Wang / Ivan Repušić

Puccini: Le Villi

BR Klassik

Classical

A strong performance of Puccini's very first opera brings out the composer to come.

— James Manheim

Jakob Bloch Jespersen / Sharon Prushansky

Franz Schubert: Winterreise

OUR Recordings

Classical

A unique recording of Winterreise, featuring a copy of an instrument from Schubert's day with multiple unusual pedals.

— James Manheim

Benjamin Grosvenor

Chopin: Sonatas Nos. 2 & 3; Ballade No. 1; Berceuse; Nocturnes

Decca

Classical

Big, dramatic Chopin with a calm and highly effective central interlude.

— James Manheim

Fretwork

Nico Muhly: My Days; Orlando Gibbons

Signum Classics

Classical

Polyphonic works by Gibbons combined with a vocal setting of a psalm text and an autopsy report on that composer.

— James Manheim

Sviatoslav Richter

The Lost Tapes: Beethoven – Sonatas Nos. 18, 27, 28 & 31

Deutsche Grammophon

Classical

Legendary, if not quite "lost," performances by the great pianist at the height of his powers.

— James Manheim

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