With the help of Paul Epworth's shimmering production, the debauched poet of the London scene has made his most accessible record yet.
Debut by James Weir's Chicago ensemble weds spacy, lush modern jazz to atmosphere, soundtrack, library music, and soul.
Soft rock that's rough around the edges and intimately magical by the duo who soon after helped turn Fleetwood Mac into superstars.
The seventh solo album from this producer/songwriter deepens the specificity of her murky, abstract art rock sound and features guest vocals from John Cale.
The retro-soul maverick takes a voyage into space that's a metaphor for the need to love and be loved.
Art pop figurehead revels in the silly and the celebratory even when addressing societal issues on this densely orchestrated and overwhelmingly joyful album.
The loved-up first album from a genre-agnostic singer/songwriter and producer shaped by her Lagos-to-London upbringing.
On his second Blue Note release the jazz pianist integrates timba, post-bop, Latin jazz, Spanish classical music, and more in a dazzling set.
The Wilco frontman celebrates his belief that "creativity eats darkness" with an ambitious, grand-scale solo project.
On his third Blue Note date, the drummer/composer completes a poignant work of resistance and edification that was eight years in the making.
A multi-disc box that reveals a self curated journey that detailing jazz's enormous influence on the artist's career from Blue to Shine..
The left-field pop artist joins early collaborator Bullion on Ghostly International with an anguished if buoyant first album.
On his fourth long-player, the drummer and his ensemble revision rap classics live in the studio as instrumental contemporary post-bop jazz.
The boundaryless guitarist's collaboration with Four Tet materialized after the two bonded over a familiarity with '80s Americana.
Disco, funk, and especially gospel factor strongly in the singer and songwriter's uplifting fourth solo album.
Several less-familiar takes on the devilish theme, some transferred to the violin, and all played with great precision.
The singer/songwriter follows the viral success of "Messy" with bleedingly raw yet polished songs about using people and substances to escape.
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The band celebrates their 25th anniversary with an immensely enjoyable collection of highlights from their discography and BBC performances.
Highly adventurous mix album from the German duo, incorporating polyrhythmic techno, club rap, and dubstep.
On what is reported to be his final album, the Ethiopian jazz master revisits his catalog and delivers expansive, even revelatory, new charts.
The band's fourth LP and Sub Pop debut is danceable, eccentric, and immaculate at once in its integration of alienated '70s and '80s influences.
The great singer takes the wheel on an elaborately executed album she wrote, produced, and recorded at her own studio.
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Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross justify the official NIN billing on this ominous soundtrack to the techno thriller.
Inspired by classic RPGs, the duo's stirring fourth album artfully uses fantasy and nostalgia not to escape reality, but to inspire a better one.
The wondrous second album from the guitarist, composer, and sound designer, aka one-third of the Academy Award-nominated Son Lux.
Plant's newest band gels in a harmony-rich amalgam of Americana and U.K. Midlands mystique.
An intensely spooky and vulnerable second album recorded with Ali Chant (PJ Harvey, Aldous Harding) and members of Portishead and This Is the Kit.
An authoritative fifth album from the British-Canadian dynamo, this one rarely leaves the dancefloor and evokes a spectrum of '90s club sounds.
The band's collaboration-studded final album harkens back to the stylishly nostalgic sound of their early work while still coming across as resolutely up-to-date.
The beloved Canadian singer/songwriter's first set of original material in a decade delivers emotion and a timely message of resilience.
A sleek and satisfying amalgam of jazz fusion, ambient, and hi-fi guitar music from this experimental Nashville trio.
Wonderful, properly sparse readings of sacred and secular choral works by Rorem.
Joel Gibb's long-running project genre-hops to Berlin with this pulsing meta-dance-pop set.
A career-spanning collection of tracks by the consistently gripping indie pop/rock band whose songs always pack a painfully realistic emotional wallop.
This remastered reissue of the band's 1968 psychedelic chamber pop master work presents the songs in their original mono mix.
Baroque-orchestra readings of Pärt have unusual intensity and warmth.
In a sharp left turn, Gabriel Birnbaum and band tender an immersive improvisational, experimental LP inspired by film noir, the first of a trilogy.
Youthful abandon and destiny collide on the Swedish pop star's tight fifth set.
The Brazilian singer crafts a breezy, sophisticated update of the classic '70s and '80s MPB sound.