Alice Coltrane: The Carnegie Hall Concert
This newly issued 1971 set helpfully complicates the iconic harpist and pianist’s legacy, revealing her as not just a spiritual-jazz mystic but also the heir to her late husband’s harshly ecstatic fire...
View ArticleJoe Henderson: Power to the People
The virtuoso saxophonist’s 1969 album with Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, and Jack DeJohnette is an essential document of a transitional moment in which everything in jazz seemed up for grabs.
View ArticleMixmaster Morris / Jonah Sharp / Haruomi Hosono: Quiet Logic
The 1998 collaborative album brought together a trio of legends from the worlds of ambient and chillout. It’s a placid but playful collection that is like nothing else in their repertoires.
View ArticleEmahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru: Souvenirs
A remarkable archival release captures rare vocal performances that the esteemed nun, composer, and pianist recorded in the late 1970s and early ’80s amid political turmoil in Ethiopia.
View ArticleMicrostoria: init ding + _snd
On two LPs from the mid 1990s, members of Oval and Mouse on Mars ask what lies beyond music’s borders. Their sonic abstractions are as bewitching as the most tightly composed song.
View ArticleLou Reed: Hudson River Wind Meditations
A new reissue of Lou Reed’s final solo album spotlights a side of the New York icon that few ever got to see: a quiet ambient composer.
View ArticlePauline Anna Strom: Echoes, Spaces, Lines
In the 1980s, the legendary Bay Area composer self-released her first three albums of roving, curious synthesis. Restored and remixed by master engineer Marta Salogni, they’re collected in a new box set.
View ArticleDorothy Carter: Waillee Waillee
Self-released in 1978, this gorgeous set of ancient songs and instrumental abstractions predicted the shape of folk to come.
View ArticleWar: The World Is a Ghetto: 50th Anniversary Collector’s Edition
The new reissue of a landmark album of 1970s funk restores the Los Angeles group’s reputation as multi-cultural pop savants and unstoppable improvisers.
View ArticleRicardo Villalobos: Alcachofa (2023 Reissue)
The minimal-techno icon celebrates the 20th anniversary of the breakthrough LP where he first established his otherworldly percussive sensibility.
View ArticleAcetone: I’m still waiting.
Once lost in the major label trend-chasing of the ’90s, the soft, slow, and sad trio gets its rightful due in an essential box set that reissues all of their studio albums.
View ArticleHiroshi Yoshimura: Surround
Commissioned as the soundtrack to a line of prefab homes, this 1986 ambient masterpiece doubles as a frame for the smallest, most quotidian sounds. It’s a testament to the act of listening itself.
View ArticleThe Replacements: Tim (Let It Bleed Edition)
This deluxe reissue is the holy grail that fans of Tim have dreamt of: a new mix that instantly becomes the best and most definitive album in the Replacements’ catalog.
View ArticlePharoah Sanders: Pharoah
This 1977 album was obscure in its day, but it spawned a fervent cult among fans of spiritual jazz, for good reason: The no-frills recording captures a feeling of unearthly magic.
View ArticleLes Rallizes Dénudés: CITTA’ ’93
Reissued by Temporal Drift, this recording of the mysterious Japanese psych-rock band’s loud, legendary 1993 set at Club Citta’ is the best they’ve ever sounded.
View ArticleGrandaddy: Sumday Twunny
Packaged with demos, outtakes, and a new remaster, this 20th anniversary box set presents the California indie band’s wide-open third album as a prescient meditation on the need to escape.
View ArticleEmeralds: Does It Look Like I’m Here? (Expanded Remaster)
With seven additional tracks and a Heba Kadry remaster, the ambient synth experimentalists’ landmark album is even more transportive than it was in 2010.
View ArticleHella: Hold Your Horse Is (Deluxe Reissue)
The Sacramento duo’s 2002 debut album might be the platonic ideal of math rock, but its real joy lies in the way it seems to escape the bounds of logic altogether.
View ArticleNeil Young: Chrome Dreams
One of Neil Young’s most widely bootlegged lost albums from the ’70s gets an official release. As familiar as the material may be, its ragged, magical charm is greater than the sum of its parts.
View ArticleSonic Youth: Live in Brooklyn 2011
Dissolving three decades of music into a 17-song noise opera, this pivotal live album captures a peerless set from a band who knew its days were numbered.
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