Splendid performances of four Bach keyboard concertos on modern instruments but marked by historical performance influences.
The singer/songwriter turns her personal and professional highs and lows into witty, affecting sketches of resilience.
A grim yet fascinating work from the rap visionary, inspired by horror and sci-fi but drawing narratives from real-life experience.
The Baltimore trumpeter crafts a soulful love letter to his hometown with his Blue Note debut.
The Spanish singer and songwriter strips down his production while using Spanish, Mexican, and Latin American folk forms in creative ways.
Will Toledo gets a great band, writes an ambitious and engrossing rock opera, and presents us with a masterpiece.
The U.K. octet's intoxicating sophomore LP runs the gamut from spare experimental folk to crushing noise.
The Texas blueswoman re-teams with producer Dave Alvin and hosts a star-studded cast including Shelley King, Marcia Ball, and Ruthie Foster, among others.
Mash-up of sounds from around the world often pinned to hip-hop beats, but always sounding like the perfect soundtrack to a brilliant yet-to-be-made film.
The Public Enemy leader's first Def Jam-issued solo effort revisits the Bomb Squad's chaotic, experimental production style.
Putting aside disco in favor of a jumble of styles including hip-hop and big beat, the Oxnard, California musician's posthumous album is joyous and inspiring.
The Australian bassist/multi-instrumentalist's third album of soulful, throwback fusion and R&B.
Four years after his last studio album, the singer/songwriter delivers seven new songs and a cover that showcase visionary writing and production.
On their first long-player since 2016, Dawn McCarthy and Nils Frykdahl enlist their daughters in creating this magical double album.
Full of blue-collar imagery and ambling, dissonant arrangements, an artful expression of depression penned by Dan Wriggins following a breakup.
On their potent eighth set, the alt-rock stalwarts channel hope and optimism as chaos swirls around them.
Full-bore high drama reading of Shostakovich's partly programmatic depiction of the Russian Revolution of 1905.
The guitarist's original trio reunites for their first album since 2021 to deliver an overdriven exercise in vanguard jazz-rock, prog, and '70s metal.
A superb cycle of Ravel's piano music seems attuned to the composer's intentions at every turn.
Inspired by fragrance and memories, Hval's reconnection with her creativity makes for some of her most personal, affecting music.
A stylistically sophisticated and emotionally resonant sophomore album from the former Disney star.
A joyous sequel to the singer's 2024 studio LP, this is artfully split between inspired cover versions and solid originals.
Seven years after their debut collaboration, the blues duo are back with a collection of laid-back, organic blues, jazz, and Americana.
The producer's first solo album since Clara is a formidable, beautiful return to his fundamentals.
A confident and savvy fourth album of empowered country-pop from the Nashville duo.
The Nashville star balances sweet-toned pop hooks and righteously empowered emotions on her fourth album.
Familiar and new adventures in uneasy listening from the veteran electronic music producer and the frontman of the Smile.
After a two-decade hiatus, the Welsh trio return with some of their wittiest, hardest-hitting songs.
A delightful and sometimes stunning full-length debut showcasing the songwriter's singular fusion of indie pop, bossa nova, jazz, and rock.
Celebrating their tenth year, the Cleveland-based Afrofuturists honor the living and dead while railing against inequality and brutality.
The brilliant sophisti-pop band's complete works -- two near-perfect albums -- plus two discs of early singles, rough mixes, and demos.
The band's fifth album brings fresh, often moving, perspectives to times of crisis.
The singer blends sophisticated fusion jazz and Argentine rock traditions with an all-star ensemble.
A charming set of tender and progressive R&B that takes cues from early-'70s soul, '90s neo-soul, and other sounds between those eras.
Stunning major-label debut from the enigmatic, genre-blurring English hard rock outfit.
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A companion to Questlove's Sly Stone documentary, this works as an alternate history with a majority of previously unreleased mixes, edits, and versions.
The band's first album in 15 years is a dynamic, uplifting call to action that pushes their legacy forward.
Full release of two legendary 1970 concerts at the Fondation Maeght gallery in France, showcasing the Arkestra in all its unshackled glory.
On their first long-player in five years, the innovative instrumental nonet showcases a refined, dynamic expansion of their sound.
The Anglo-French indie pop hero turns in another gorgeously produced set with latter-day backing band the Night Mail.
The duo delivers a soulful, funky, and uplifting antidote to the fractured state of life in the 2020s.
The sonic chameleon jumps a level to try classic rocker with strings and horns on for size and finds the fit to be perfect.
A nearly four-hour-long collection of ecstatic soul tracks from one of the genre's most exciting and active years.
A chaotic yet introspective fusion of shoegaze, trip-hop, and industrial pop, containing some of the artist's strongest hooks.