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AllMusic Staff Pick Haazz & Company Unlawful Noise Unlawful Noise delivers powerful free jazz, with Kees Hazovoet leading a six-piece ensemble featuring Peter Brötzmann, Han Bennink, Johnny Dyani, and Louis Moholo across two intense, trance-inducing pieces.

Surprise Chef Frogs in a Pond The group pay tribute to the music of 1970s Italian giallo cinema with a delightfully understated and perfectly arranged set of jazz-meets-hip-hop-meets-funk instrumentals.

AllMusic Staff Pick Volta Do Mar At the Speed of Light or Day At the Speed of Light or Day blends Chicago underground instrumental music, prog art rock, and experimental jazz. Volta Do Mar offers an imaginative sound for fans of Pele, Tortoise, and the Fucking Champs.

AllMusic Staff Pick Cornelius Point Cornelius’s Point blends exotica, bossa nova, garage rock, and dream pop into a playful, surreal sound, with organic arrangements showcasing Keigo Oyamada’s musical maturity.

Michael Kiwanuka Fudge Recorded in a one-room studio between sessions for the preceding Small Changes, this is the singer/songwriter's least-varnished album yet.

AllMusic Staff Pick Incubus Morning View Morning View builds on Make Yourself, balancing aggressive rockers with mellow tracks while showcasing Incubus’ softer, more ambitious sound.

British Birds Murmurate, Oscillate The project's third album and label debut makes contemporary stressors and disorientation fun through their eclectic blend of vintage rock styles.

AllMusic Staff Pick The Dismemberment Plan Change The aptly titled Change showcases a band testing themselves while maintaining their identity. With somber guitars and pulsing keyboards, it's tailor-made for lonely walks under orange streetlights or melancholy evenings spent stargazing.

Jimmy Webb Yours for the Taking: The Found Songs of Jimmy Webb In celebration of his 80th birthday, Webb delivers a collection of previously unrecorded songs and a pair of demos.

AllMusic Staff Pick Kansas Leftoverture Kansas's Leftoverture is an impenetrable conundrum of significance, capped off by a five-part suite, appropriately titled “Magnum Opus.” @kansasband.bsky.social

Ella Thompson Triumph & Sadness The Australian singer/songwriter's lushly romantic offering is steeped in analog modern soul music.

AllMusic Staff Pick The Marx Brothers A Night at the Opera A Night at the Opera compiles four soundtracks, including Animal Crackers, At the Circus, and Room Service. The mastering is questionable, but it’s the only collection of all four. No film dialogue is included.

Fontaines D.C. Dopamine Chamber It's larger than life, and although it dives into feelings of digital isolation, it feels like a collective experience. fontainesdublin.bsky.social

AllMusic Staff Pick Tad God's Balls Of the original Seattle grunge bands, Tad were far and away the gnarliest, heavy as a bulldozer and just as destructive. For sheer sonic firepower, they never topped their 1989 debut, God's Balls.

Dummy do you love the color of the sky? Pairing smudgy shoegaze guitars with clattering beats and politically charged lyrics, the band deliver an excellent album that breaks free of their influences.

AllMusic Staff Pick The Foreign Exchange Leave It All Behind Nicolay's mellow productions recall J Dilla, while Phonte's sensitive vocals add a bittersweet touch. An exceptional R&B album that captures the complexities of adult relationships.

The Avalanches No Bad Memories Predominantly joyous and uptempo, the group's fourth album goes hard for nostalgia while incorporating some fresh sounds and new voices.

AllMusic Staff Pick Vinicius Cantuária / Bill Frisell Lágrimas Mexicanas A 2011 collaboration between the Brazilian guitarist and jazz guitarist Bill Frisell, this date revels in beauty, exploration, and sensitivity with few curveballs

Fontaines D.C. Dopamine Chamber It's larger than life, and although it dives into feelings of digital isolation, it feels like a collective experience. @fontainesdublin.bsky.social

AllMusic Staff Pick Majical Cloudz Are You Alone? Picking up where Impersonator left off, this sparse LP blends hypnotic electronics and plaintive vocals, with distorted piano on “Disappeared” and cathedral-like organ and choral voicings on “So Blue.”

Gnod Chronicles of Gnowt, Vol. 2 The second album in a trilogy from the Manchester-based collective, focusing on apocalyptic sludge and noise rock.

AllMusic Staff Pick Electric Light Orchestra A New World Record Opening with the opulently orchestrated "Tightrope," which heralds the perfect production found throughout this album, A New World Record, released 50 years ago today, contains seven of the best songs ever to come out of the group.

Allen Lowe I Should Have Stayed Dead: The Death and Life of Allen Lowe This three-disc cornucopia drawn from the saxophonist's recent and distant catalog is a wide-ranging soundtrack to his documentary of the same title.

AllMusic Staff Pick The Dead Milkmen Not Richard, But Dick Despite scathing ’90s reviews, Not Richard, But Dick is the Dead Milkmen's underrated gem—a mix of absurdist humor, catchy pop-punk, and clever fun. @deadmilkmen.bsky.social

Linda Sikhakhane L I N D A On his second Blue Note offering, the South African saxophonist and his New York quartet deliver an investigative journey into sound and story.

AllMusic Staff Pick The Avalanches Since I Left You Built from an estimated 3,500 thrifted vinyl samples, Since I Left You pairs obsessive crate digging with a seamlessly smooth groove. Listen while the sun is still out before the cool weather sets in.

Imperial Teen All Over You Even on a once-in-a-blue-moon release schedule, the seventh studio album from this indie pop conglomerate sounds as fresh and exciting as ever.

AllMusic Staff Pick Son Lux Lanterns Ryan Lott’s third solo LP blends delicate harmonies and intricate beats, balancing bedroom pop, experimental production, and constantly shifting layers.

Remi Wolf Mud While not without moments of levity and playful style shifts, the alt-pop artist's more earnest third LP is a breakup album rooted in indie rock.

AllMusic Staff Pick ABBA Arrival Widely considered ABBA’s first classic, 1976’s Arrival introduced the iconic mirror-B logo and delivered three major hits: “Money Money Money,” “Knowing Me, Knowing You,” and the timeless pop classic “Dancing Queen.”

Dawn Richard Creole Culture The flexible jazz collective Katalyst and longtime production associate Machinedrum aid the singer on her inspired fourth Merge album.

AllMusic Staff Pick Seba Producer 06 The sixth Producer volume collects standout tracks Swedish drum’n’bass producer Seba made during LTJ Bukem’s Good Looking Records heyday. It blends lush synths, occasional whale song, and crisp breaks into serene, atmospheric high-BPM music.

Teenage Fanclub Do Not Dare to Dream A lyrical, existential 13th album from the beloved Scottish band.

AllMusic Staff Pick Lightning Bolt Ride the Skies Lightning Bolt’s 2001 album Ride the Skies sharpened the duo’s math-rock complexity, revealing catchy hooks beneath the chaos of crashing cymbals and distortion.

AllMusic Staff Pick Paul Desmond Quartet Complete Recordings of the Paul Desmond Quartet with Jim Hall While this box set doesn't contain the Warner Bros. Recordings, there is still plenty here to admire and enjoy between two of the greatest melodic improvisers in jazz history.

With cameos by members of R.E.M. and Elephant 6, Detroit indie rocker Stef Chura's third album is a relationship-scarred one produced by Robert Schneider.

AllMusic Staff Pick Boygenius the record Some listeners may just be discovering Phoebe Bridgers from her phenomenal new album Lost Weekend, and a terrific place to continue exploring is this 2023 release from the indie supergroup Boygenius.

Miranda Lambert embraces a savvy '70s disco and soft country vibe on her tenth album. @mirandalambert

Paul Simpson John Foxx Metamatic After leaving Ultravox!, John Foxx began the 1980s by releasing one of the best and most groundbreaking synth pop albums of all time. Rarely has anyone made cryptic lyrics, alien electronics, and dystopian dread this accessible.

Johnny Marr The Age of Everything The guitarist/songwriter addresses widespread societal overwhelm on his rock-solid fifth solo LP.

AllMusic Staff Pick Nortec Collective Tijuana Sessions, Vol. 3 Fusing traditional Mexican music with electronics, Nortec Collective’s Tijuana Sessions, Vol. 3 blends trumpets, bass drops, and rock-solid grooves into a modern “border radio” sound.

AllMusic Staff Pick Various Artists Stairways to Heaven (The Money or the Gun) The brainchild of Australian music director Chris Harriot, this collection of disparate Aussie renditions of the iconic Guitar Center epic range from the Shatner-esque (Leonard Teale) to a Lizard King-era Doors tribute.

Meshell Ndegeocello presents a purposeful and imaginative set of reinterpretations with appearances from Chaka Khan, Bill Callahan, and Brandi Carlile, among many others.

AllMusic Staff Pick Solex Low Kick and Hard Bop More than two decades on, Low Kick and Hard Bop’s witty collage pop sounds more vivid and visionary than ever, with its mix of strangeness and catchiness blazing a trail for kindred spirits like St. Vincent and Micachu years later.

The classic 1965 Beatles album issued with new stereo mixes, plus the mono and U.S. variants and a disc of revelatory behind-the-scenes rarities. @thebeatles

Orbital Glastonbury 1994 The iconic techno duo's historic 1994 set at the Glastonbury Festival, which introduced live electronic music to a mass audience.

AllMusic Staff Pick Kylie Minogue Fever Kylie Minogue’s Fever blends disco-diva glamour with early-2000s dance-pop. “Can’t Get You Out of My Head,” “Give It to Me,” and “Love at First Sight” highlight its stylish Euro-dance sound, with no weak tracks or misplaced ballads to break the groove.

Osees Off Course The band bend time backward and revisit their psych-prog heyday, peppering the tracks with vintage organs, sound effects, and disembodied vocals.

James Mason One Mile North Glass Wars John Hills and Mark Bajuk create gorgeous, meditative textures with melodic guitars and restrained synths on One Mile North's Glass Wars. "Parents Arrive" and "Insides" showcase the duo's somber, beautiful sound.

Julia Jacklin The Gem Recorded live with friends upstairs from its namesake pub, the songwriter's fourth LP is her most easygoing yet, even if still struggling with love.