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This mysterious New York rapper/producer/sound wizard builds a world too strange to ignore on his proper full-length debut.
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More about sounds than songs, the first Atoms for Peace full-length sounds like a fleshier sequel to Thom Yorke's first solo album.
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Paradoxically, Anxiety's bold sonics and vulnerability make it some of Autre Ne Veut's most confident-sounding music.
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Adding live drums and studio production to their already excellent songs, Beach Fossils' second album sounds energized and alive.
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Excellent indie pop dunked in noise from a French quartet who'd make the Vaselines very proud.
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Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields / Joshua Bell
Joshua Bell Conducts Beethoven Symphon…
Renowned violinist Joshua Bell debuts as a conductor with Beethoven's Fourth and Seventh symphonies on this 2013 Sony release.
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Twenty years after their debut, the Dutch indie rockers still play with more fire and fury than kids half their age.
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The supernaturally skilled and creative Philadelphian's third retail album, much lighter than his second, might be his apex.
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Herbert Blomstedt / Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
Anton Bruckner: Sinfonie Nr. 5 B-Dur
Herbert Blomstedt and the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig are almost ideal interpreters of Bruckner's Fifth Symphony in this audiophile presentation.
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The duo trades the free-flowing warmth of its earlier work for crisply elegant electro-pop on this impressive debut album.
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Bonnie "Prince" Billy / Dawn McCarthy
A lovingly crafted, laid-back collection of songs from the vaults of the Everly Brothers that is as respectful as they are idiosyncratic.
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Over the course of a mesmerizing, disjointed debut, this Montreal producer presents a strange and captivating aural personality all his own.
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House music gets warm and fuzzy on the producer's 2013 effort, but it remains funky and pleasingly deep.
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With the singer backed by her live band, the reigning queen of socially conscious reggae continues to innovate and empower on her excellent third album.
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This U.K. indie act walks the tightrope between incredibly heavy lyrics and perfect pop songs on a collection of early singles.
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Sallie Ford & the Sound Outside
Sallie Ford is the real deal, her band seems suited, and Untamed Beast is the full-tilt arrival of a rare and special singer.
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The Complete '60s Capitol Singles
Superlative compilation of the mono mixes of the A- and B-sides of Merle Haggard's Complete '60s Capitol Singles.
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The U.K. band's debut is a tuneful blast of retro-shoegaze and '90s-flavored guitar noise worship.
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James Hunter / The James Hunter Six
After five years, the James Hunter Six and producer Gabriel Roth deliver this deft, expressive, wonderful celebration of earthy, gritty retro-soul.
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With their second album, these Danish punk revivalists branch out from the wiry sounds of their debut to more introspective moods.
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Ivan & Alyosha's All the Times We Had marks the arrival of a great band fully formed.
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The Best of the Classic Capitol Single…
Terrific collection of the A- and B-sides of Wanda Jackson's Capitol singles of the '50s and '60s.
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The Complete United Artists Solo Singl…
Terrific collection of the A- & B-sides of every solo single George Jones cut for United Artists between 1961 and 1964.
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Deutschen Opernorchester / Donald Runnicles / Jona …
Kaufmann has the power to pull off the high notes and gets able support from the Orchestra of the German Opera Berlin under Donald Runnicles.
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The Complete King Federal Singles
The A- & B-sides of Freddie King's classic singles for King and Federal are collected on this excellent two-disc set.
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Britten's 1946 chamber opera receives a clear and vibrant performance in this live recording from the 64th Aldeburgh Festival.
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This is an intuitive conversation on jazz and pop standards between two jazz masters, and also offers a major new composition by the saxophonist.
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Johnny Marr joyously embraces all of his signature strengths as a songwriter and guitarist on his solo debut, The Messenger.
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Jason Marsalis / Jason Marsalis Vibes Quartet
Vibraphonist Jason Marsalis delivers a cerebral, swinging, and percussion-driven follow-up to 2009's Music Update.
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Matmos' exercise in telepathic songwriting delivers some of the most abstract, and most visceral, music in the duo's career.
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Stepping back from the crunch of their debut, the Londoners take a mellow approach to angular indie pop.
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The second album by Jenks Miller and Heather McEntire offers a gritty, elegiac, Southern Gothic Americana bursting with desire, poetry, and pathos.
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The debut from the jazz supergroup features songs by artists from such genres as pop, rock, R&B;, and hip-hop.
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Pissed Jeans savage the mundane nuisances of the modern world on their fourth album, Honeys.
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Subtle shifts in sound and some new collaborators make this a nice step forward for the Swedish duo.
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On his first Blue Note date in 43 years, Wayne Shorter leads his stellar group in a startling live program filled with kinetic interplay.
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Spectral Park's self-titled debut is a psychedelic onslaught that's worth the risk of sensory overload.
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Chris Stamey's Lovesick Blues is a hazy, sweetly melancholy album designed for lonely late-night listening.
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II builds on the bedroom recording excitement of soloist Ruban Nielson's debut with the addition of a bassist and drummer.
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Die Zauberhafte Welt der Anderen
The first proper album from these two revered techno producers is a creepy delight.
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Combattimento Consort Amsterdam / Jan Willem de Vr …
Handel: Concerti Grossi, Op. 6
Jan Willem de Vriend and Combattimento Consort Amsterdam turn in first-rate super audio recordings of Handel's Op. 6.
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With a minimum of fuss, C-86-inspired Spanish indie pop duo plays simple and true songs about heartache and growing up.
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The Raven That Refused to Sing and Oth…
Steven Wilson's third solo album features a crack new band, Alan Parsons, and an excellent set of new compositions.
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