AC/DC
Power Up
AC/DC reconvened to pay tribute to their late founding member Malcolm Young, winding up with deeply felt good-time rock & roll.
Algiers
There Is No Year
The Atlanta quartet refine their lyric approach while expanding their musical and textural palettes on their third album.
Angel Olsen
Whole New Mess
A recontextualized solo version of 2019's All Mirrors (recorded prior to it) that stands emphatically on its own.
Angélica Garcia
Cha Cha Palace
The Virginia-based singer celebrates her Mexican and Salvadoran roots with a rousingly kaleidoscopic amalgam of Latin traditions and arty indie rock.
Bach Choir / David Hill / BBC Concert Orchestra
Howells: Missa Sabrinensis
A rich choral performance of Howells' gigantic mass shows that the grand British tradition lives on.
Bad Bunny
YHLQMDLG
On his shockingly radio-friendly sophomore album, the urbano superstar deftly breaks all genre rules without writing new ones.
BC Camplight
Shortly After Takeoff
The American expat completes his excellent Manchester Trilogy with pop savvy, enigmatic arrangements, and plenty of gallows humor.
Beatrice Dillon
Workaround
A tightly wound yet playful set of polymetric rhythm studies set at a fixed tempo of 150 beats per minute.
Bob Dylan
Rough and Rowdy Ways
On his first set of new material in eight years, Dylan turns in a vital roots outing ranging across history, culture, spirituality, sex, and mortality.
Bob Mould
Blue Hearts
A world in flames drives the punk/indie legend to create one of his toughest and most passionate works since his days in Hüsker Dü.
Boldy James / Sterling Toles
Manger on McNichols
Unparalleled artistic therapy fusing sample-based production, a large ensemble, and vivid street nightmares, recorded from 2007 to 2018.
Brandy
B7
Arriving eight years after her previous album, this welcome return is as sonically progressive as it is emotionally open.
Brandy Clark
Your Life Is a Record
Brandy Clark gets warm and intimate on the soulful Your Life Is a Record.
Brothers Osborne
Skeletons
On their third album, the duo ratchet up both the rock and disco without losing their down-home identity.
Carolyn Sampson / Osmo Vänskä / Minnesota Orchestra
Mahler 4
Osmo Vänskä and the Minnesota Orchestra present Mahler's joyful Symphony No. 4, with soprano Carolyn Sampson as soloist in the finale.
Childish Gambino
3.15.2020
Mashing and melding sounds, textures, feelings, and trips into a weird, wild, and wonderful mess, this is the second classic Gambino album in a row.
Chloe x Halle
Ungodly Hour
Following up their Grammy-nominated debut, the harmonizing Bailey sisters take another step forward with some high-profile production assistance.
Christian Sands
Be Water
The jazz pianist draws inspiration from the philosophy and skill of martial arts legend Bruce Lee.
Cleo Sol
Rose in the Dark
Over a decade after her career got off to a modest start, the R&B singer/songwriter offers her exceptional first solo LP amid activity with Sault.
Cornershop
England Is a Garden
Never more focused or fun, hooky, or political, the long-running band have crafted their masterpiece after nearly 30 years of making music together.
Creeper
Sex, Death & the Infinite Void
A master class in goth-punk camp directed by a clutch of vampires masquerading as musical theater majors.
Deftones
Ohms
The alt-metal wizards' stunning ninth set reunites them with producer Terry Date on a heady sci-fi vision quest.
Dua Lipa
Future Nostalgia
This pulse-pounding sophomore set updates the best from '70s disco, '80s dance-pop, and '90s club.
Edward Gardner / City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Schubert: Symphonies, Vol. 2 - Nos. 2 & 6; Overtures in the Italian Style
A marvelously sensitive, often delicate Schubert performed at a very high technical level.
Endless Field
Alive in the Wilderness
The duo's transcendent, ASMR-inducing second album, recorded outdoors at various remote locations in Southern Utah.
Epiphoni Consort / Tim Reader
When Love Speaks: Choral Music by Owain Park
An exceptional collection of works by Owain Park does much to establish him as Rutter's heir apparent.
Fiona Apple
Fetch the Bolt Cutters
A dense, unpredictable, and joyfully cathartic fifth album from Fiona Apple.
Fleet Foxes
Shore
The folk-rock band's fourth album is a compassionate and rewarding work of Indian summer liminality.
Gregg August
Dialogues On Race, Vol. 1
A sprawling, poignant, and cannily timed modern big band meditation on America's racial tensions that includes vocalists and strings.
HAIM
Women in Music, Pt. 3
The trio open up on their accomplished third album, confronting the hard times in life with breezy yet vulnerable songs.
Hayley Williams
Petals for Armor
An intensely personal, artful, and exploratory debut from the Paramore singer.
Headie One
EDNA
On his studio debut, the Tottenham icon provides an expansive portfolio of his career thus far.
I Break Horses
Warnings
A shimmeringly bleak, heartbreakingly sad, and musically thrilling album made of sweeping synths, aching vocals, and slow, dreamlike arrangements.
Irreversible Entanglements
Who Sent You?
Poet supreme Camae Ayewa and her supporting quartet kick out a second stunning set of furious and grooving free jazz.
J Hus
Big Conspiracy
The London rapper's chart-topping second full-length is significantly more focused and mature than his 2017 breakthrough.
Jason Isbell / Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit
Reunions
A brilliant album about the search for strength and direction that emerged in a most chaotic and uncertain time.
Jay Electronica
A Written Testimony
Heavy on uncredited contributions from Jay-Z, the long-awaited debut from this esteemed rapper is an inspired, innovative master stroke.
Jessie Ware
What's Your Pleasure?
Following three Top Ten U.K. entries, the fourth album from the singer/songwriter deals in rhapsodic dancefloor intimacy.
Joel Ross
Who Are You?
The vibraphonist's sophomore album of expansive, harmonically and tonally colorful jazz.
John Anderson
Years
With the assistance of producer Dan Auerbach, the hardcore country singer explores his mortality.
Julianna Barwick
Healing Is a Miracle
On her first album after several life changes, the vocalist/producer explores creativity's therapeutic qualities with transcendent beauty.
Ka
Descendants of Cain
Adopting a biblical metaphor for his fifth solo set, rapper Ka continues his poetic illustration of the struggles of his Brownsville home.
Katie Gately
Loom
The producer's painful, beautiful, and powerful tribute to her late mother engulfs listeners in her grieving process.
Khruangbin
Mordechai
On their third album, the Texan trio place more emphasis on their vocals, resulting in their strongest, most affecting material yet.
Kidbug
Kidbug
Members of Eerie Wanda and Dumb Numbers team up on a love letter to the alt-rock sounds of the early '90s, especially grunge.
Kvelertak
Splid
The studio debut for vocalist Ivar Nikolaisen, the Norwegian black metallers pick right up where 2016's Nattesferd left off and never look back.
Kylie Minogue
DISCO
The Australian pop diva triumphantly returns to the dancefloor on this blissful, nostalgic 15th dose of joy.
Lady Gaga
Chromatica
Lady Gaga returns to glitzy disco and house on the streamlined, stylized Chromatica.
Laura Marling
Song for Our Daughter
The British folk singer/songwriter's mid-career watershed continues on her gorgeously written seventh album.
Lianne La Havas
Lianne La Havas
The Grammy-nominated singer/songwriter takes the reins for her third album and shouldn't let go.
Lido Pimienta
Miss Colombia
A vivid panoply of heritage-rich, progressive global pop from this Canadian-Colombian singer/songwriter.
Lilly Hiatt
Walking Proof
The singer and songwriter ups her game across the board on this well-crafted and expressive fourth album.
Loma
Don't Shy Away
The sophomore full-length effort from the American indie rock trio effectively combines elemental dream pop and dark folktronica.
Low Cut Connie
Private Lives
Low Cut Connie expand their musical and emotional horizons without forgetting to rock.
Magik Markers
2020
The trio's first album in nearly a decade captures the fragmented feel of its namesake year with delicate folk-pop, clattering rock, and open emotion.
Margo Price
That's How Rumors Get Started
The country maverick broadens and deepens her musical purview with production assistance from Sturgill Simpson.
Mark Elder / Hallé Orchestra
Sibelius: Symphony No. 4; Symphony No. 6
Mark Elder and the Hallé Orchestra complete their exceptional cycle of the symphonies of Sibelius with the Fourth and Sixth.
Mary Lattimore
Silver Ladders
The ambient harpist works with Slowdive's Neil Halstead on this album of patient, autumnal instrumentals.
Natalia Lafourcade
Un Canto por México, Vol. 1
The first volume of a studio outing that re-creates the musical magic from a benefit concert held in November 2019.
No Joy
Motherhood
Once strictly a doomy shoegaze band, this Montreal group uses their new album to explore everything from trip-hop to metalcore.
Nubya Garcia
Source
After two acclaimed EPs, the London-based saxophonist's debut album weds striking modern jazz to Afro-Caribbean musical traditions.
Oneohtrix Point Never
Magic Oneohtrix Point Never
Inspired by his lifelong love of radio, Daniel Lopatin combines the different facets of his music with a newfound warmth and intimacy.
ORA Singers
Thomas Tallis: Spem in Alium; James Macmillan: Vidi Aquam
An exceptional release featuring James MacMillan's "reflection" on Tallis' monumental 40-voice motet Spem in alium.
Perfume Genius
Set My Heart on Fire Immediately
Mike Hadreas' fifth album explores the body's power and tenderness with songs that are equally rugged and delicate.
Phoebe Bridgers
Punisher
Subtle shifts in production and songwriting take the second album from this indie songwriter in new, ominous directions.
Poppy
I Disagree
On her empowering third LP, the subversive pop star finds her own voice with a brash metal makeover.
Prince Royce
Alter Ego
On his sixth album, the "prince of bachata" delivers a sprawling double-length record chock-full of hit singles and soulful new directions.
Riga Cathedral Choir School Mixed Choir / Jurgis Cabulis
Jančevskis: Aeternum
A major new figure in the Baltic choral tradition, presented in gorgeous performances.
Rina Sawayama
Sawayama
This genre-defying debut from the Japanese-British singer mines the best of early-2000s pop, rock, and R&B.
Run the Jewels
RTJ4
On their intensely political fourth salvo, the rap duo tackles a litany of American ills with wit and wisdom.
RVG
Feral
An urgent and appealing bouquet of post-punk, new wave, and jangling guitar pop from eclectic Melbourne band.
Róisín Murphy
Róisín Machine
Working with Crooked Man's Richard Barratt, Murphy delivers a cohesive, spellbinding album that's a testament to her consistent creativity.
Sault
Untitled (Rise)
A highly energized and angered set, the dynamic and enigmatic collective's fourth album in 16 months.
Sevdaliza
Shabrang
The singer, songwriter, and producer's second album blends traditional and futuristic sounds in an epic journey from pain to strength.
Shabaka & the Ancestors
We Are Sent Here by History
On their Impulse! debut, Shabaka Hutchings' South African band delve deeply into spiritual and Township music to prepare humanity for extinction.
Shirley Collins
Heart's Ease
The British folk icon returns to the recording studio to create a strong, confident, and forward-thinking album at the age of 85.
Soccer Mommy
color theory
The lyrically heavy follow-up to Sophie Allison's breakthrough debut has production inspired by the idea of coming across an old cassette tape.
St. John's College Choir, Cambridge / Andrew Nethsingha
Ash Wednesday
A live recording of the St. John's Ash Wednesday service, with a striking sense of immediacy.
Stephen Malkmus
Traditional Techniques
Stephen Malkmus finally makes the psych-folk album he's been hinting at for years.
Sunny Jain
Wild Wild East
The drummer explodes the American cowboy and immigrant archetypes with his kaleidoscopic mix of Bollywood and Spaghetti Western-inspired themes, surf rock, Indian classical, and jazz.
Supercrush
SODO Pop
Brilliant re-creation of the moment in the early '90s when grunge and power pop collided.
Tame Impala
The Slow Rush
The band's fourth album delves smoothly into elegant disco, echoing chillwave, and Madchester beats while also dealing with serious lyrical concerns and big emotions.
Teyana Taylor
The Album
Seemingly unrestricted and as definitive as the title implies, an engrossing work with an abundance of rich slow jams and an uplifting finish.
The Killers
Imploding the Mirage
Las Vegas' finest strike gold by finding the sweet spot between Sam's Town and Brandon Flowers' solo work.
The Koreatown Oddity
Little Dominiques Nosebleed
The Koreatown Oddity's second Stones Throw LP is a dense, psychedelic epic vividly portraying the rapper/producer's upbringing.
The Microphones
Microphones in 2020
Phil Elverum revisits his beloved indie pop project with an ambitious yet humble musical memoir that honors his past and present selves.
The Soft Pink Truth
Shall We Go on Sinning So That Grace May Increase?
Drew Daniel responds to the increasing hate in the 2010s and 2020s with a deeply beautiful celebration of love and community.
The Strokes
The New Abnormal
Complicated, ambitious, and emotionally raw, the band's sixth album is a surprising and rewarding triumph.
The Weeknd
After Hours
Abel Tesfaye's Blood on the Tracks -- er, teeth -- is an emotionally resonant, sonically varied breakup album.
Thibaut Garcia
Aranjuez
A landmark recording of Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez, accompanied by lovely smaller works.
Thundercat
It Is What It Is
Shaken by the death of Mac Miller, Stephen Bruner nonetheless reaches a new peak with his fourth album.
Vladislav Delay
Rakka
Brutal, apocalyptic hellscapes from the Finnish experimental techno master, conveying much more than the bitter cold of the Arctic tundra.
Waylon Payne
Blue Eyes, the Harlot, the Queer, the Pusher & Me
A bracing, soulful, and literary semi-autobiographical song cycle.
Winter
Endless Space (Between You & I)
Peacefully dreamlike and melancholy album that skillfully blends the softness of dream pop with the sonic overload of shoegaze.
Wire
Mind Hive
On their compact yet complex 17th album, the legendary post-punkers reinvent their enduring strengths as they lament humanity's vicious, and violent, circles.
Xavier Omär
If You Feel
Sympathetic and artful R&B from a San Antonian with range encompassing descriptive bedroom songwriting and rich gospel harmonies.
Yelle
L' Ère du Verseau
The French duo tone down the technicolor in favor of a more expressive sound that's still hooky and fun.
Yves Tumor
Heaven to a Tortured Mind
The genre-defying artist unites their music into funky, iridescent R&B pop with fascinating, seductive results.
Zephaniah OHora
Listening to the Music
Working with producer Neal Casal, the Merle Haggard disciple makes a great leap forward on his sophomore set.
