Neil Young: Homegrown
After 46 years, Neil Young unearths a lost but highly consequential album, a collection of humble, stripped-back love songs he began writing at what was arguably the artistic zenith of his career.
View ArticleHiroshi Yoshimura: GREEN
The Japanese ambient pioneer’s well-deserved revival continues with a reissue of this 1986 cult classic, which feels like an inviting frame in which to project your own feelings.
View ArticleAlbert Ayler: New Grass
The tenor saxophonist’s beguiling and divisive 1969 album attempted to cross-wire free jazz with rock, funk, and soul. It remains his most misunderstood record.
View ArticleOneness of Juju: African Rhythms 1970-1982
A landmark anthology originally released in 2001 documents how James “Plunky Nkabinde” Branch and his groups connected jazz, R&B, and funk through Afrocentric rhythms and spirituality.
View Articlethat dog.: Totally Crushed Out! / Retreat From the Sun
Reissues of the L.A. band’s mid-’90s albums capture how they brought girl-group yearning, three-part harmonies, and virtuoso violin lines to the era of Sassy mag and 120 Minutes.
View ArticleYo La Tengo: Electr-O-Pura
In 1995, the indie rock trio lurched headlong into its own sound with Electr-O-Pura. Now, newly reissued on vinyl, the pop-focused and densely referential album remains a monument in the band’s catalog.
View ArticleArca: &&&&&
A new reissue of Arca’s 25-minute mixtape from 2013 highlights its prophetic, trailblazing qualities. It remains an unfathomably skillful and multi-layered piece of music.
View ArticleLou Reed: New York: Deluxe Edition
A new reissue highlights the ongoing relevance of Lou Reed’s opus about his hometown in the era of AIDS and Reaganism, a protest album unlike any other
View ArticleThelonious Monk: Palo Alto
The legendary jazz pianist’s 1968 concert at Palo Alto High School, recorded by a janitor and shelved for decades, captures some of the fiercest, most spirited versions of his quartet’s core repertoire.
View ArticleRilo Kiley: Rilo Kiley
On their remarkably self-assured 1999 debut, the indie rock band were already in possession of the wry, morbid sensibility that would define them.
View ArticlePrince: Sign o’ the Times (Super Deluxe)
With 63 previously unreleased tracks, this newly remastered version of Prince’s groundbreaking 1987 album is a trove of lost songs and dramatic lore, a jaw-dropping look into one of the most creatively...
View ArticleThe Replacements: Pleased to Meet Me (Deluxe Edition)
The latest in the band’s series of expanded editions focuses on their second major-label record, the moment in which Paul Westerberg’s punk impulses, pop instincts, and poetic soul came into focus as...
View ArticleTom Petty: Wildflowers & All the Rest (Deluxe Edition)
The new reissue of Tom Petty’s benchmark 1994 solo album has a sprawling quality inherent to the album that makes it feel less like a curio for obsessives than a deep interrogation into its success.
View ArticleWilco: Summerteeth (Deluxe Edition)
This reissue stays true to the darkness and exuberance that defined the band’s revelatory 1999 album.
View ArticleThe Jimi Hendrix Experience: Live in Maui
Near the end of his life, Jimi Hendrix recorded two concerts in Hawaii for an ill-fated film. A new reissue reveals him elevating above an earthly debacle to offer a glimpse of transcendence.
View ArticleRoberta Flack: First Take
Recorded over a period of just 10 hours, the future star’s breakthrough 1969 debut captured her idiosyncratic mix of soul, jazz, and folk and her singular vision as a bandleader.
View ArticleThe Band: Stage Fright (50th Anniversary Edition)
An expanded reissue of the Band’s charming, loose-limbed album from 1970 reveals its relatively small stakes are inextricable from its charm.
View ArticleVarious Artists: Heisei No Oto: Japanese Left-field Pop From the CD Age,...
A new compilation digs deep into stacks of jewel cases and explores an inflection point in Japanese pop music where changes in technology brought changes in sound.
View ArticleThe Roots: Do You Want More?!!!??!
The singular hip-hop band’s second album is a story about America and Philadelphia, memory and survival. Like a good book, it goes by quickly, yet you force yourself to linger.
View ArticleGang of Four: 77-81
The UK post-punk pioneers’ influence always outshone their popularity, but a new box set makes a convincing case that stardom actually was within their reach.
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