RTJ4 by RUN THE JEWELS "On their fourth installment, Killer Mike and El-P are back to tune up the ruling class and the racist police state, this time streamlining the process and settling into their most natural rhythm." - 6/5/2020 Now Available on Vinyl from Amazon
Notes on a Conditional Form by THE 1975 "Matty Healy, the enfant terrible of pop-rock, pushes his band all-in with their longest and most uncentered album; it is also their funniest and most earnest." - 5/22/2020 Now Available on Vinyl from Amazon
All Visible Objects by MOBY "Richard Melville Hall is back to doing what he does best: making soaring electronic music for billboard-sized emotions. Introspection? Not so much." - 5/21/2020 Now Available on Vinyl from Amazon
Set My Heart on Fire Immediately by PERFUME GENIUS "Mike Hadreas’ fifth album glides between sublime melodies and grimy, guttural dissonance, embracing the joys and burdens of the human body and its innumerable, intangible yearnings." - 5/18/2020 Now Available on Vinyl from Amazon
The Slow Rush by TAME IMPALA "On his fourth album, Kevin Parker takes a breath and eases into a smoother psychedelic sound. Even without the adrenaline-filled highs, the compositions are as rich and thoughtful as ever." - 2/14/2020 Now Available on Vinyl from Amazon
Honeymoon by BEACH BUNNY "Chicago’s Lili Trifilio writes about heartache and insecurity with the wistful, plainspoken honesty of power-pop." - 2/13/2020 Now Available on Vinyl from Amazon
Father of All... by GREEN DAY "The pop-punk stalwarts resist political commentary in lieu of making the most convincingly carefree Green Day record of the new millennium." - 2/5/2020 Now Available on Vinyl from Amazon
Walls by LOUIS TOMLINSON "The latest One Directioner to go his own way tackles big themes, but the music is filled with that same dead-eyed vocal delivery, lazy drumming, strumming, and writing that all pop stars fear." - 2/4/2020 Now Available on Vinyl from Amazon
Funeral by LIL WAYNE "With his big legacy album Tha Carter V out of the way, Weezy is back in the booth and cruising, experimenting with an array of styles and a dizzying maze of wordplay." - 2/3/2020 Now Available on Vinyl from Amazon
I Disagree by POPPY "The cryptic YouTuber’s new album is the first to fully embrace the upsetting qualities of her video works, folding elements of nu-metal and grindcore into her seasick melange." - 1/14/2020 Now Available on Vinyl from Amazon
Rare by SELENA GOMEZ "Selena Gomez’s third album is a smooth and confident pop record that delves deep—but not that deep—into heartbreak, resilience, and self-love." - 1/13/2020 Now Available on Vinyl from Amazon
Seeking Thrills by GEORGIA "The second album written, produced, and performed by Georgia Barnes is the work of a budding pop mind finding her own space on the dancefloor." - 1/9/2020 Now Available on Vinyl from Amazon
Heavy Rain by LEE “SCRATCH” PERRY "The dub innovator reworks 2019’s Rainford, stripping the original down into a form that is warmer and weirder." - 1/8/2020 Now Available on Vinyl from Amazon
Plunge Remix by FEVER RAY "An adventurous, globe-spanning collection of remixes embraces the hungry and curious spirit of Fever Ray’s 2017 album Plunge." - 12/23/2019 Now Available on Vinyl from Amazon
OCCULTING DISK by DEATHPROD "After a long hiatus, the solo electronics master returns with a mesmerizing, terrifying, and emotionally nuanced “anti-fascist ritual” of an album." - 12/18/2019 Now Available on Vinyl from Amazon
Grime MC by JME "The London grime star has made the strongest record of his career, chock full of nimble, intricate raps that seamlessly integrate the nerdiest of signifiers." - 12/12/2019 Now Available on Vinyl from Amazon
Puck by SEAN MCCANN "This collage work by the Los Angeles composer weaves together stray chamber compositions, ambient recordings, voices, and more, yielding a mesmerizing sound both dense and diaphanous." - 12/12/2019 Now Available on Vinyl from Amazon
Fine Line by HARRY STYLES "Harry Styles hides himself inside of a mystic pop-rock record that keeps us away from who he is as a songwriter and fledgling rock star." - 12/12/2019 Now Available on Vinyl from Amazon
Glacial Pace by HURT VALLEY "Singer-songwriter Ben Collins joins the Woodsist camp with a light, loose collection of songs built for placid and rudderless afternoons." - 12/12/2019 Now Available on Vinyl from Amazon
Oderbruch by SHED "The techno artist discovers a softer, warmer side in an album named for his childhood home." - 12/11/2019 Now Available on Vinyl from Amazon
Ism by JUNIUS PAUL "The Chicago bassist’s solo debut—featuring guests including Makaya McCraven, Isaiah Spencer, and Tomeka Reid—ranges widely, from free jazz to post-bop to meditative tone poems." - 12/11/2019 Now Available on Vinyl from Amazon
Echo Earth by AKASHA SYSTEM "Gentle but full of motion, the Portland, Oregon producer’s seemingly uncomplicated music brings the language of left-field ’90s dance to the great outdoors." - 12/10/2019 Now Available on Vinyl from Amazon
HERstory Vol. 1 by MARY J. BLIGE "In the ’90s, Blige prophesied a future in which hip-hop would be baked directly into pop music. The hits on this collection show her just getting started." - 12/10/2019 Now Available on Vinyl from Amazon
IV by ANDRES "Eight years after his last album and seven since the crowd-pleasing “New for U,” the Detroit house and hip-hop staple shows off his encyclopedic knowledge of soul, disco, and Latin music." - 12/9/2019 Now Available on Vinyl from Amazon
Jules by JULIEN CHANG "The Baltimore music student’s soft-focus popcraft plays like a lost link between the hazed-out aesthetic of chillwave and the smooth precision of sophisti-pop." - 12/8/2019 Now Available on Vinyl from Amazon
We Are Beat Happening by BEAT HAPPENING "An essential new vinyl box set collects all of the trailblazing Olympia band’s records. It is a monument to the spartan trio’s music and their seismic influence on the indie rock that followed in their wake." - 12/8/2019 Now Available on Vinyl from Amazon
20 Years of Fabric by VARIOUS "The iconic London nightclub celebrates two decades with 20 tracks that survey the house, techno, and bass-music styles synonymous with the venue, with mixed results." - 12/5/2019 Now Available on Vinyl from Amazon
No Treasure But Hope by TINDERSTICKS "The latest album from the long-running English band is one of their most sensuous and sunlit, playing on new shades of hope, love, and melancholy." - 12/4/2019 Now Available on Vinyl from Amazon
Heliopause by ANNE MULLER "The loops and layers of the Berlin-based cellist’s solo album evoke resonant emotions that could afford to linger." - 12/3/2019 Now Available on Vinyl from Amazon
Hyperspace by BECK "On his 14th album, Beck roams across a pleasant, gently psychedelic landscape looking for something new." - 12/2/2019 Now Available on Vinyl from Amazon
Information by GALCHER LUSTWERK "The rapper-producer’s third album answers the exhaustion of contemporary life online by stripping down and buttoning up, yielding a newly disciplined take on his trademark deep house." - 12/2/2019 Now Available on Vinyl from Amazon
Cotillions by WILLIAM PATRICK CORGAN "The cantankerous Smashing Pumpkin embraces his vision of country music, but the lightest, breeziest songs of his career come with their own peculiar Corganian paradox." - 12/2/2019 Now Available on Vinyl from Amazon
Get Bleak EP by DUCKS UNLIMITED "The Toronto quartet writes lilting, throwback jangle-pop for the isolated and the underemployed." - 12/1/2019 Now Available on Vinyl from Amazon
1999 by PRINCE "This five-disc set, which includes concert footage, B-sides, and demos, delivers what box sets of this kind almost never do: the thrill of discovery." - 12/1/2019 Now Available on Vinyl from Amazon
Supernatural by FLOORPLAN "On their second album as a duo, Detroit techno titan Robert Hood and his daughter Lyric sharpen their focus on the fusion of house music and gospel." - 11/26/2019 Now Available on Vinyl from Amazon
The Legendary Riverside Albums by CHET BAKER "Five albums recorded in the late 1950s capture the skill and the frailty of an acclaimed jazz trumpeter on the brink of disaster." - 11/26/2019 Now Available on Vinyl from Amazon
Hidden History of the Human Race by BLOOD INCANTATION "On their psychedelic and virtuosic second album, the Denver quartet brings death metal to new and exalted places." - 11/26/2019 Now Available on Vinyl from Amazon
Everyday Life by COLDPLAY "On the 52-minute vision quest that is their new double LP, the world’s most earnest arena band sound looser than they have in years." - 11/24/2019 Now Available on Vinyl from Amazon
Our Pathetic Age by DJ SHADOW "The Bay Area turntablist and producer delivers a mammoth double album—half instrumentals, half rap collaborations—aimed at the decade’s widespread feeling of creeping dread." - 11/24/2019 Now Available on Vinyl from Amazon
2042 by KELE OKEREKE "The former Bloc Party frontman attempts a blazing indictment of institutional racism on his latest solo effort, but too often reaches for stock characters and sloganeering." - 11/20/2019 Now Available on Vinyl from Amazon
Thanks for the Dance by LEONARD COHEN "After the grand farewell of 2016's You Want It Darker, Cohen's son gathers his father's scraps and unfinished ideas and lovingly fleshes them out with help from collaborators like Beck, The National's Bryce Dessner and Feist." - 11/20/2019 Now Available on Vinyl from Amazon
The Royal Scam by STEELY DAN "By 1976, Fagen and Becker pushed their music to feel as grotesque as their words. The result is the bleakest and most narratively vivid album of their career, as well as their most misunderstood." - 11/19/2019 Now Available on Vinyl from Amazon
Iowa Dream by ARTHUR RUSSELL "The latest posthumous album from the groundbreaking artist feels like one of his truest, 19 “demos” that reveal his disregard for genre, elegant songwriting, and boundless mind." - 11/18/2019 Now Available on Vinyl from Amazon
Ato by ZIUR "Skillfully switching between forward momentum and deep reflection, the Berlin electronic musician’s latest album proves her to be a master storyteller." - 11/18/2019 Now Available on Vinyl from Amazon
Exhaust EP by LEE GAMBLE "In part two of a trilogy of releases focused on “capitalist semiotic pollution,” the UK producer juggles abrasive club-music tropes with field recordings and ominous scraps of advertising." - 11/17/2019 Now Available on Vinyl from Amazon
New Hell by GREET DEATH "The second album from the Michigan rock trio is alternately brutal and transcendent, like heavy machinery coming up against the stubbornness of nature." - 11/15/2019 Now Available on Vinyl from Amazon
Becoming Peter Ivers by PETER IVERS "A new collection of the late songwriter’s work celebrates the wit, range, and unpolished charm of his oddball pop." - 11/14/2019 Now Available on Vinyl from Amazon
I Made a Place by BONNIE "PRINCE" BILLY "Oldham's first collection of new songs under the Bonnie “Prince” Billy in eight years focuses on simple pleasures and persistence, but is no less inscrutable for its warmth." - 11/14/2019 Now Available on Vinyl from Amazon
Mummer Love by SOUNDWALK COLLECTIVE / PATTI SMITH "The experimental troupe gathers Patti Smith, Philip Glass, and Mulatu Astatke for a sometimes-glorious, sometimes-chaotic attempt at attaining spiritual rapture." - 11/13/2019 Now Available on Vinyl from Amazon
No Other by GENE CLARK "The Byrds frontman’s deliriously opulent solo work was misunderstood upon release, but this lavish repackaging restores a spiritual singer-songwriter classic." - 11/13/2019 Now Available on Vinyl from Amazon
Thousand Knives of Ryuichi Sakamoto by RYUICHI SAKAMOTO "Released shortly before his group Yellow Magic Orchestra’s historic debut, the Japanese synthesizer icon’s first solo LP balances kitsch, complexity, and a critical geopolitical perspective." - 11/13/2019 Now Available on Vinyl from Amazon
Leaving Meaning by SWANS "Michael Gira reshuffles his famous band's lineup, inviting collaborators like the Necks and Ben Frost for a record that emphasizes elegiac beauty over raging catharsis." - 11/13/2019 Now Available on Vinyl from Amazon
Sea of Worry by HAVE A NICE LIFE "Beneath the metallic sheen of goth rock, the cult band’s third album addresses the disquieting anxieties of adulthood with vengeful indignation." - 11/12/2019 Now Available on Vinyl from Amazon
A Fossil Begins to Bray by HIRO KONE "Fueled by existential dread and exacting sound design, the New York electronic musician’s second album for Dais is gratifyingly menacing and masterfully executed." - 11/12/2019 Now Available on Vinyl from Amazon
Down in Jamaica – 40 Years of VP Records by VARIOUS "More than a simple greatest-hits collection, this box set commemorating Jamaica’s powerhouse independent label offers a well-rounded portrait of the iconic imprint’s role in reggae history." - 11/12/2019 Now Available on Vinyl from Amazon
MAGDALENE by FKA TWIGS "With limitlessly innovative songwriting and production, the cinema of twigs’ music has never been more affecting. MAGDALENE is not just on the vanguard of pop, it’s in a breathtaking class of its own." - 11/7/2019 Now Available on Vinyl from Amazon
Athena by SUDAN ARCHIVES "The L.A.-based singer and violinist makes her boldest and most fully formed statement yet." - 11/6/2019 Now Available on Vinyl from Amazon
[USA] by ANAMANAGUCHI "Six years after their breakout album, the Brooklyn chiptune veterans turn inward and re-assess their hedonism." - 11/5/2019 Now Available on Vinyl from Amazon
Monster (25th Anniversary Edition) by R.E.M. "R.E.M.’s long misunderstood 1994 album isn’t clarified by the bonus material on this new reissue, but the original songs remain strangely oblique, full of glam rock poses and sly subterfuge." - 11/3/2019 Now Available on Vinyl from Amazon
Altogether by TURNOVER "The Virginia emo trio try to keep things as simple and accessible as possible on their fourth album." - 11/3/2019 Now Available on Vinyl from Amazon
Spring by ITASCA "Los Angeles folk musician Kayla Cohen turns a two-month spell in the New Mexico desert into a meditation on place, nature, and the passage of time." - 11/1/2019 Now Available on Vinyl from Amazon
Kiwanuka by MICHAEEL KIWANUKA "The London singer-songwriter's Danger Mouse and Inflo-produced latest feels like an easy listen at first, but eventually reveals its mournful and even despairing heart." - 10/31/2019 Now Available on Vinyl from Amazon
Three Chords and the Truth by VAN MORRISON "On his 41st album, Van Morrison splits the difference between nostalgia, impassioned gripes, and spiritual yearning." - 10/30/2019 Now Available on Vinyl from Amazon
Colorado by NEIL YOUNG & CRAZY HORSE "Young’s fourth album of the century with his most famous band is simple and heartfelt, gritty and tender." - 10/29/2019 Now Available on Vinyl from Amazon
Four of Arrows by GREAT GRANDPA "The indie rock quintet’s second album is more spacious, folksy, and adroit, centering on the evocative voice of lead singer Alex Menne." - 10/28/2019 Now Available on Vinyl from Amazon
Pyroclasts by SUNN O))) "Recorded in the same sessions as April’s excellent Life Metal, the drone metal band’s new album is a rich, fundamentally life-affirming experience." - 10/28/2019 Now Available on Vinyl from Amazon
Cry by CIGARETTES AFTER SEX "Greg Gonzalez has a lovely voice and a convincingly atmospheric take on dream pop, neither of which is well served by his two-dimensional fantasies." - 10/27/2019 Now Available on Vinyl from Amazon
Tremble Under Boom Lights by JONATHAN FIRE EATER "While fame and fortune may’ve eluded them, the before-their-time New York City rockers’ influence is incalculable. Two decades on, their 1996 mini-LP sounds like a hiccup in the timeline." - 10/25/2019 Now Available on Vinyl from Amazon
Surviving by JIMMY EAT WORLD "The beloved Arizona emo band’s latest is a solid, self-aware effort, missing only a few risks." - 10/25/2019 Now Available on Vinyl from Amazon
Pony by REX ORANGE COUNTY "The 21-year-old songwriter’s latest album is irritating enough to activate the mildest allergy to sincerity." - 10/24/2019 Now Available on Vinyl from Amazon
Anicca by TEEBS "Mtendere Mandowa, a veteran (and cult favorite) of the L.A. beat scene, gathers fresh collaborators for a set of effortless, shape-shifting tracks that make time stand still. " - 10/23/2019 Now Available on Vinyl from Amazon
Mechanical Fantasy Box by PATRICK COWLEY "Accompanied by a newly published journal, this collection of synth odds and ends offers the rare opportunity to hear directly from an undersung icon of San Francisco’s gay disco scene." - 10/23/2019 Now Available on Vinyl from Amazon
Dusty by HOMEBOY SANDMAN "The Queens rapper’s ninth album is full of the dizzyingly technical wordplay he’s made his trademark." - 10/22/2019 Now Available on Vinyl from Amazon
Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost Part 2 by FOALS "The English band’s second album this year isn’t a complement to its predecessor so much as just another iteration on a now-standard formula." - 10/22/2019 Now Available on Vinyl from Amazon
You Deserve Love by WHITE REAPER "With harmonized guitars, spring-loaded rhythms, and snotty hooks, the Louisville band’s major-label debut is a well-earned success that doesn’t quite feel like a triumph." - 10/21/2019 Now Available on Vinyl from Amazon
Deborah by SORRY GIRLS "The Montreal synth-pop duo explore an alternate ’80s where ethereal, post-goth dream pop sounds almost indistinguishable from lush, adult-contemporary soft rock." - 10/20/2019 Now Available on Vinyl from Amazon
Crush by FLOATING POINTS "After a run of dates playing “obtuse, strange” music as a warm-up act for the xx, Sam Shepherd translates that experimental energy to an album of mischievous, melodic, stripped-down electronic music." - 10/20/2019 Now Available on Vinyl from Amazon
Juice B Crypts by BATTLES "Now down to a duo, the busy instrumentalists recruit Tune-Yards, Shabazz Palaces, and the singer of Yes for their aggressive fourth album." - 10/20/2019 Now Available on Vinyl from Amazon
Screamer by THIRD EYE BLIND "On the band’s sixth album, frontman Stephan Jenkins Peter Pans his way through an improbably infectious set of would-be hits." - 10/17/2019 Now Available on Vinyl from Amazon
Heavy Lifter by HOVVDY "The duo’s third album is a nostalgic indie-pop rumination on suburban teenhood that thrums with hopeful energy. The best songs are like dispatches from a cracking cocoon." - 10/17/2019 Now Available on Vinyl from Amazon
No Holiday by THE MUFFS "The final album from the punk trio captures everything that was bratty, tender, and unforgettable about its leading force, Kim Shattuck, who passed away earlier this year." - 10/17/2019 Now Available on Vinyl from Amazon
Singles Too by SCREAMING FEMALES "One of indie rock’s more consistent guitar bands charts its evolution with a career-spanning collection of non-album singles, B-sides, and cover songs." - 10/16/2019 Now Available on Vinyl from Amazon
Dawn Chorus by JACQUES GREENE "Pushing beyond his customary dancefloor focus, the French-Canadian producer twists club influences and collaborative input into a textured, exploratory sound, both intimate and immense." - 10/16/2019 Now Available on Vinyl from Amazon
Neighborhoods by ERNEST HOOD "A newly reissued private-press curio from 1974 captures the bygone sounds of daily life in Portland, Oregon, in dreamy, proto-ambient form." - 10/15/2019 Now Available on Vinyl from Amazon
Metal Galaxy (Japanese Set) by BABYMETAL "After fusing J-Pop and heavy metal to great fanfare, the duo recruit international guests to expand their sound into even more unlikely hybrids." - 10/15/2019 Now Available on Vinyl from Amazon
No Home Record by KIM GORDON "After 38 years of making music, Kim Gordon’s thrilling solo debut lives at the vanguard of sound and performance, shot through with the beautiful, unsparing noise that has always defined her art." - 10/13/2019 Now Available on Vinyl from Amazon
My Star by THE HECKS "Chicago’s least-relaxed band doubles their personnel and scales up their sound for a set of unnerving new wave." - 10/13/2019 Now Available on Vinyl from Amazon
Sonic Citadel by LIGHTNING BOLT "The noise duo’s seventh album is the most life-affirming and accessible music they’ve ever made." - 10/11/2019 Now Available on Vinyl from Amazon
Two Hands by BIG THIEF "The second landmark album this year from Big Thief is raw, tactile, and essential. The intimate songs zoom in on a band that feels, at this moment, totally invincible." - 10/10/2019 Now Available on Vinyl from Amazon
Odds Against Tomorrow by BILL ORCUTT "Stepping away from the overt historicism of previous recordings, the guitarist opts for a subtler—but just as expressive—investigation of folk and blues." - 10/10/2019 Now Available on Vinyl from Amazon
Tell All Your Friends by TAKING BACK SUNDAY "The newly reissued landmark debut from the Amityville emo band takes heartbreak, jealousy, and depression to an operatic intensity, but does so with sharp wit, a knowing wink, and oh so many hooks." - 10/9/2019 Now Available on Vinyl from Amazon
Phantom Rhythm by GONG GONG GONG "The Beijing-based post-punk duo stack garage instrumentation, Ali Farka Touré melodies, and dissonance without a whiff of the baroque." - 10/9/2019 Now Available on Vinyl from Amazon
Old LP by THAT DOG "The ’90s alt-rockers’ first new album in more than 20 years has the vibe of a beloved record that was, for whatever reason, sitting on a shelf." - 10/9/2019 Now Available on Vinyl from Amazon
Hello Exile by THE MENZINGERS "What does it mean to get older in punk? Were the good old days ever that good? Though the titles change, the Pennsylvania band’s song remains the same." - 10/9/2019 Now Available on Vinyl from Amazon
Signal by AUTOMATIC "The trio’s debut is an exercise in post-punk and no-wave galvanism crafted from throbbing bass, tight-zipped drumbeats, and buzzing synths." - 10/8/2019 Now Available on Vinyl from Amazon
Ghosteen by NICK CAVE "Forty years into his career, Nick Cave emerges with one of his most powerful albums yet, an endlessly giving and complex meditation on mortality and our collective grief." - 10/8/2019 Now Available on Vinyl from Amazon
Ode to Joy by WILCO "Wilco’s 11th album is direct and spacious, centering on the beauty of quiet revelation." - 10/7/2019 Now Available on Vinyl from Amazon
Deceiver by DIIV "The shoegaze band’s third album is another portrait of addiction and recovery, but this time there’s no suggestion of a victory lap. The lyrics may wallow, but the music soars." - 10/7/2019 Now Available on Vinyl from Amazon
Look Up Sharp by CARLA DAL FORNO "The Australian multi-instrumentalist and songwriter’s second album finds a home in the shadowy space between post-punk, trip-hop, and lo-fi folk." - 10/7/2019 Now Available on Vinyl from Amazon
The Third Ascension by GLENN BRANCA "The celebrated avant-garde composer’s final work is a shrine to ecstatic disorientation." - 10/6/2019 Now Available on Vinyl from Amazon