Featured New Releases for
April 19, 2024

Dark Matter
EMI Records / Monkeywrench
An unexpectedly sleek and streamlined evocation of the alt-rock band's 1990s prime.
- Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Duets: Ghost on the Canvas Sessions
Big Machine Records
The late country-pop singer's 2011 record Ghost on the Canvas is revised as a duets album.
- Stephen Thomas Erlewine
This Ain't the Way You Go Out
Communion Records
A jazzier, more collaborative fifth album from the U.K. singer/songwriter, informed by working with Logic and Kwes., and inspired by major life events.
- Marcy Donelson
Tarantula Heart
Ipecac
Monolithic five-track full-length from these heroes of heaviness that was collaged together and expanded on from heavily edited source material.
- Fred Thomas
Defiance, Pt. 2: Fiction
Sun Records
Supported by a galaxy of stars, the veteran rocker delivers a solid rock & roll album.
- Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Tabula Rasa
Birdman Records
The Detroit-area supergroup turn from free-flowing drones to riff-heavy prog and hard rock on their third album in two years.
- Paul Simpson
Your Day Will Come
Jagjaguwar
A brief but intriguing full-length debut by Shane Lavers, whose influences span experimental music, sophisti-pop, Animal Collective, and Steve Reich.
- Marcy Donelson
Songs of Fate
ECM New Series
A highly personal, often transcendent album features mostly works by Baltic composers.
- James Manheim
The Passenger: Weinberg, Schubert
Orchid Classics
Intense performances orient trios by Weinberg and Schubert strongly toward the experience of death.
- James Manheim
Charles Villiers Stanford: Cushendall - Irish Song Cycles
Somm
Irish song cycles from an influential composer and educator offering several recorded premieres.
- Keith Finke
Gershwin Rhapsody
Decca
Varied Gershwin works and arrangements, inventively refracted through multiple lenses.
- James Manheim
Stravinsky: Pulcinella Suite; Falla: El retablo de maese Pedro; Harpsichord Concerto
Harmonia Mundi
A fine program of neoclassic works includes lesser-known items by Falla.
- James Manheim
Duruflé: Requiem; Poulenc: Lenten Motets
Hyperion
A marvelous Duruflé Requiem in which young voices bring out the composer's swirling counterpoint.
- James Manheim
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