Editors' Choice for October, 2020
Ninja Tune
Darren Cunningham is joined by a mix of vocalists and instrumentalists, including Vanessa Benelli Mosell and Sampha, on his least esoteric LP.
Hollywood
Compilation showcasing the live tour performances of Queen featuring the former American Idol singer.
Mad Decent
Signed to Diplo's label, one-half of AlunaGeorge takes complete control on her gratifying, wide-ranging solo debut.
Dirty Hit
The singer/songwriter's debut album updates the legacy of outspoken '90s female artists with heartfelt songwriting and a genre-blurring sound.
Arbutus Records
The debut full-length from this Polish crooner shapes synth pop influences into a thick atmosphere of wistful reflection.
Mascot Music / Provogue
Kentucky's Southern swamp metal brotherhood realize the fullness of their greasy, swaggering creative potential.
Frontiers Records
On the band's first studio outing in two decades, they pull out all the stops to reveal there remains plenty of creativity and energy in the tank.
Profil - Edition Günter H?nssler
A strikingly virtuosic debut from a major new presence on the wind scene.
Snakefarm Records
On their third album, the duo ratchet up both the rock and disco without losing their down-home identity.
Columbia
Recorded live in the studio with the E Street Band, this is a celebration of life and a meditation on mortality.
Sub Pop
The noise rap trio continue the deep dive into horrorcore that they began on their last album, focusing on themes of paranoia and grisly violence.
Rounder
The Los Angeles group balance existential dread and classic rock influences on their engagingly literate seventh album.
Fire Records
The onetime Flying Nun and Utility Records act returns with its first material in 30 years, and it's an indie pop gem.
Drag City
After a brief hiatus, the Baltimore noise rock band return with one of their most focused and powerful albums yet.
Park the Van
The onetime Beverly leader makes an engaging solo debut that recovers from a breakup while drawing on '80s and '90s musical touchstones.
Domino
The producer/songwriter's debut is a kinetic, softly subversive triumph designed to make listeners think as well as dance.
Verve
A dazzling, previously unheard concert from the acclaimed vocalist recorded two years after her first classic Berlin date.
Concord
A restless, adventurous album where Elvis Costello puts a new spin on old tricks.
Sacred Bones
Rundle and Thou team up for an evocative set that stands at the nexus of doom, gothic rock, post-grunge, and black metal.
Warner Classics
A terrific collection of unfamiliar oboe-and-piano pieces rooted in French neoclassicism.
Harmonia Mundi
Strong historically-oriented performance that emphasizes the links between Beethoven and music of the French Revolutionary period.
Jagjaguwar
Diversifying in every respect, the multi-instrumentalist and vocalist moves across Latin trap, reggaeton, funk, and other forms with ease.
Beyond Beyond Is Beyond
This prolific neo-jam band distills their wide-ranging creative impulses into relatively compact forms for their most engaging album to date.
Arcana
An impressive revival of a forgotten 18th century masterpiece by Niccolò Jommelli.
Grateful Dead
The companion piece to the restrained acoustic material of Workingman's Dead, and easily the band's studio masterwork, is expanded here with a live set from 1971.
Rough Trade
Cut from 200 days of sessions, this West Coast sextet's ambitious, Technicolor debut uses the Beach Boys and Queen merely as launching points.
Deutsche Harmonia Mundi
A large sampling of sacred and secular polyphony, beautifully performed in an acoustically superior Romanesque church.
Fearless Records
Masterful debut from the alternative rock duo that fuses angular grooves with glam flair.
Chandos
A crisp, chamber-sized Beethoven concerto performance with a praiseworthy level of detail.
Blue Note
The vibraphonist's sophomore album of expansive, harmonically and tonally colorful jazz.
Omnivore / Omnivore Recordings
Collaborating with producer Mark Hudson, the Badfinger guitarist makes a warm, welcoming coda to his power pop career.
Planet Mu / Timesig
The RHCP guitarist's first purely electronic album under his own name is an impressive set of tracks inspired by jungle and breakbeat hardcore.
Rhino
A box set containing five discs of unreleased and compelling tapes from Joni Mitchell's years as a folk singer in the mid-1960s.
Cantaloupe
On her first studio outing in five years, the guitarist teams with a sound designer in delivering a groundbreaking set of instrumentals.
BGU / BMG
The Georgian-born British singer returns with her most personal and artfully experimental album to date.
ECM
An improvised concert from perhaps his final European tour finds the pianist keenly exploring the musical spirits that have informed his career.
Signum Classics
An extraordinary choral song cycle by a composer and poet, marking in personal detail the cancer death of the poet's wife.
Arcana
Exceptionally strong Brahms, with a period piano that catches the complex balances in the composer's two cello sonatas.
Slumberland
Another refreshing and hook-filled jolt of lo-fi, high-excitement indie pop with mod and psych underpinnings.
Bars Only Entertainment
Executive-produced by Phonte, this EP from the sharp and smooth rapper/singer packs the wallop of an album.
Ninja Tune
Travis Stewart fuses hip-hop, drum'n'bass, and other genres on an album informed by out-of-body experiences.
Drag City
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.
Because Music
The rousing fourth set of island-blasted bliss from Diplo and a cast of international, cross-genre friends.
Firehouse 12
The second provocative offering from the guitarist's vocal group features new members and three cameos from Robert Wyatt.
Ghostly International / Secretly Canadian
The ambient harpist works with Slowdive's Neil Halstead on this album of patient, autumnal instrumentals.
Sub Pop
Album four from this Canadian math rock assault team is intelligent and well detailed while still brutally hard.
Sony Music
A moving and culturally relevant plea for indigenous rights marks the Australian band's first release in 18 years.
International Anthem / International Anthems
Quietly powerful document of a 2018 improvised set in Chicago by two longtime collaborators and spiritual travelers.
Ipecac
The band delivers a bracing and vital-sounding re-recording of their 1986 thrash/punk-metal demo.
Bright Shiny Things
A powerful, engrossing chamber opera by Gordon based on real-life events.
Relapse Records
The band's fourth album sees them adding metal back into their shoegaze sound; the result is almost on par with their brilliant debut.
Warp
Inspired by his lifelong love of radio, Daniel Lopatin combines the different facets of his music with a newfound warmth and intimacy.
Goner Records
The debut release by the dystopian minimal synth project of Natalie Hoffmann, co-founder of Memphis garage punks NOTS.
Deutsche Grammophon
Forgotten German symphonist offers a distinctively optimistic late Romantic style.
Nuclear Blast
Arkansas' psychedelic doom metal merchants balance a back-to-basics approach with melodic invention, prog asides, and fine production.
Dark Entries
A raw set of previously unearthed disco and funk covers recorded by the iconic producer between 1975 and 1977.
Castle Face
Drifting, thrilling, and fierce psychedelia with free jazz and prog influences from a trio of Canadian explorers.
BMG / BMG
Channeling dread, anxiety, and frustration, the electronic-tinged rock trio hold a mirror to society as the world burns.
PentaTone Classics
A vigorous historical-instrument pairing of early Schubert symphonies continues to showcase the talents of the B'Rock Orchestra.
Linn / Linn Records
Expert, fully realized Strauss tone poems with a nicely sung and less-familiar set of orchestral songs as a bonus.
ATO
Drawn from a 92-city world tour, the duo perform Mettavolution with incendiary concert favorites, including a 22-minute cover of Pink Floyd's "Echoes."
Blue Note
Composed as his father was dying, the trumpeter and his all-star quintet provide an intimate dialogue of emotional and spiritual resonance.
Nonesuch
Amidon's artistry is on full display on a return to folk covers that updates traditional fare as well as more-modern touchpoints like Taj Mahal.
Tompkins Square
The Utah native delivers a timeless-sounding debut of windblown country-folk grace and rambling melancholia.
Decca
For his 85th birthday, Ozawa issues one of the finest Beethoven Sevenths on recordings.
Deutsche Grammophon / UMC
Delicate and spontaneous aren't always words associated with Rachmaninoff, but both qualities are abundant in this lovely recording.
Mello Music Group
The Brooklyn rapper celebrates fatherhood on this highly autobiographical, jazz-tinged EP.
Slumberland
Working with the Clean's David Kilgour gives the indie pop trio a chance to dig deep into their love of Flying Nun-style pop.
LSO Live
A sharp, dark performance of The Cunning Little Vixen, even without the video accompaniment for which it was created.
Don Giovanni
Brilliant re-creation of the moment in the early '90s when grunge and power pop collided.
International Anthem / International Anthems
The avant-garde duo's collage-like debut, combining acidic free jazz-fusion, Latin rhythms, and electronics into a vibrant soundscape.
Daptone
Celebrating 15 years, these New Yorkers bring the horn section back to the front line amid neo-psych, Afro-funk, and swaggering R&B.
Century Media / Inside Out Music
In direct response to the global pandemic, the band wrote this sprawling work about isolation while in transcontinental quarantine.
Shelflife
The band's third album is more sweetly hooky dream pop that's stadium huge and bedroom small at the same time.
Stones Throw
The experienced producer's first album is a joyous yet introspective fusion of synth-funk, hip-hop, and sci-fi themes.
Virgin EMI
The Vamps return after a two-year hiatus with a vibrant and sophisticated fourth album.
Oehms Classics
A clean performance that brings out the many layers of this symphony of love.
Brownswood
The iconic, nonagenarian musician and architect of Mexican jazz delivers a brand-new recording for Gilles Peterson's Brownswood label.
Warner Bros. / Warner Records
Tom Petty's warm, stripped-down 1994 classic gets an expanded reissue with unreleased songs, demos, and live recordings.
Interscope
U2's return to its pre-irony '80s glory days its signature anthemic sound.
Various Artists
Grapefruit
A heaping basket of tuneful bubblegum nuggetry from Britain's early-'70s pop market.
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Turbo-Shostakovich from conductor Vladimir Jurowski and his well-drilled London Philharmonic.
Crammed Discs
A fearless Afro-European art-pop gem from 1985 gets a generous reissue with ample bonus tracks.
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