Featured New Releases for
May 10, 2024

Can We Please Have FunEditors' Choice
Capitol / Lovetap
An artful, emotionally resonant ninth album that finds the Nashville band recapturing the playful, post-punk energy of their early work.
- Matt Collar
Death JokesEditors' Choice
Sub Pop
Damon McMahon's dense, challenging critique of American culture's need to conform is equal parts timely and timeless.
- Heather Phares
Morning View XXIII
Incubus / Virgin
A "20th" anniversary re-recording of their seminal 2001 album that adds layers of experience and age to the biggest record in their catalog.
- Neil Z. Yeung
Hopes and Fears [20th Anniversary Edition]
Interscope / Island / UMR
The band's openhearted, ambitious debut album -- presented here with extras -- stands as a classic of the post-Coldplay era.
- Tim Sendra
The Moon Is in the Wrong Place
Concord / Easy Eye Sound
Shannon Shaw and her retro-rocking bandmates contemplate loss while aiming for a bigger and more colorful sound.
- Mark Deming
Nell' Ora BluEditors' Choice
Rise Above Records
The band blow up their proto-metal template to create an imaginary soundtrack that pays tribute to Italian cinema of the '70s.
- Tim Sendra
Cape Forestier
Nettwerk
Balancing rustic and more reverb-heavy indie folk and '60s and '70s pop, the duo's relatively stripped-back fifth album is an affectionate one.
- Marcy Donelson
I Am Toward You
Sargent House
Shaped by memories and meditation, the project's sixth album boasts some of its most direct songwriting and emotive use of noise.
- Heather Phares
Rhumba Country
New West
LaFarge's retro style includes Latin music, vintage soul, and even a touch of rocksteady on his tenth studio album.
- Mark Deming
Five Ways to Say GoodbyeEditors' Choice
Mute
Nick Cave's longtime collaborator shows his estimable talents as an interpretive vocalist and arranger on this powerful solo effort.
- Mark Deming
Pop and Circumstance
Slumberland
The band add a pinch of melancholy and some soul music influence to a reliably punchy and joyful blast of mod indie pop.
- Tim Sendra
SwallowtailEditors' Choice
Thrill Jockey
The second improvised offering by the duo was recorded in Australia by the seaside in a hearty spirit of openness to musical inquiry.
- Thom Jurek
Ten FoldEditors' Choice
Big Dada
R&B
Aided by the likes of Corey Fonville, Karriem Riggins, and Jay Daniel, the progressive R&B artist relates joy and pain with unfeigned emotion and sardonic wit.
- Andy Kellman
The Hits Keep Coming
Alligator Records
The veteran blues outfit keeps things fresh and lively thanks to such surprises as a doo wop cover of Leonard Cohen's "Everybody Knows."
- Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Old Main Chapel
Blue Note
Live 2011 performance featuring the late trumpeter and his trio with guitarist Bill Frisell and drummer Brian Blade.
- Matt Collar
Slow Motion
Bureau B
An album of electronic sound paintings composed during the 1970s for a film by German expressionist painter Karl Horst Hödicke.
- Paul Simpson
I Am Jordan
Ninja Tune
The U.K. producer's first album reflects their personal journey and their Northern upbringing, channeling styles like donk and euphoric trance.
- Paul Simpson
The Ox Box Set
Edsel
The Who bassist's solo discography gets remastered and expanded in this six-disc box set.
Underwater Over There
Current Taste / Felte
The long-evolving instrumental group explore goth pop and shoegaze influences on their ninth full-length album.
- Fred Thomas
Ravel: The Complete Works for Solo Piano, Vol. 1
Avie
A Ravel specialist undertakes a complete cycle of the composer's piano works, with promising results.
- James Manheim
Wagner: Parsifal
Sony Classical
A Parsifal with many attractions, none greater than its Kundry.
- James Manheim
Schostakowitsch: Symphonie Nr. 8
BR Klassik
Superb live Shostakovich, excelling equally in broad lines, technical details, and overall interpretation.
- James Manheim
Mozart: Overture to Die Entführung aus dem Serail; Piano Concerto No. 11; Piano Concerto No. 12; Piano Concerto No. 13
Chandos
The sensitive and insightful "Mozart, Made in Manchester" series continues with early Viennese concertos and a slam-bang overture.
- James Manheim
Takács, Assad, Labro
Yarlung Records
A completely novel collaboration among enormously different talents results in a unique string quartet release.
- James Manheim
Pergolesi: Stabat Mater; Vivaldi: Nisi Dominus
PentaTone Classics
Magnificent, operatic-styled performances of these 18th century sacred vocal standards.
- James Manheim
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