Bound to go down as one of Marvel's savviest moves: the soundtrack album to Black Panther has been curated by Kendrick Lamar. The star-studded affair features new tracks by Lamar as well as SZA, Khalid, Vince Staples, Anderson .Paak, James Blake, Future, Travis Scott and The Weeknd, among others.
The new album by Car Seat Headrest - their eleventh(!) - is, per Wikipedia, "a complete re-recording and reworking" of their sixth album, which was also called Twin Fantasy. Available on CD and vinyl. (No, even though the linked image is from a cassette, we don't have it on cassette.)
The new album by Swedish duo First Aid Kit is available on CD or vinyl.
Per the New York Times' Stephen Holden, "Can one astoundingly gifted singer revive a beloved but dormant jazz vocal tradition? They say it takes only one to start a movement. As Cécile McLorin Salvant spun songs into a brilliant silk tapestry at the Allen Room on Saturday evening, I thought, "Here she is." If anyone can extend the lineage of the Big Three - Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan, and Ella Fitzgerald - it is this 23-year-old virtuoso."
From a Room, Volume 2 is certainly a more dignified title for the companion to Chris Stapleton's hit May LP than From Another Room or Yep, I'm in a Room Again would have been. That's the kind of care for the details that gets you a Grammy.
The posthumous release of Sharon Jones' final album serves as one last testimonial to her immense power as a vocalist and a bandleader. Also available on vinyl.
Mavis Staples and Jeff Tweedy reunite for another strong collaboration.
The new Bjork album is sure to be chock full of all those Bjork things that make Bjork the Bjorkiest.
The new Morrissey album is sure to be chock full of all those Morrissey things that make Morrissey the Morrissiest.
A master of the relatively obscure Buchla modular synth system, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith is drawing raves for her new album, which Pitchfork praises "Though her voice drives most songs on The Kid, she never treats it as separate from the rest of her arsenal. It's not an embellishment slapped on top of an otherwise complete instrumental; it's wholly integrated into the complex webbing of each piece. There's a stunning moment on "A Kid" when the beat falls away and Smith sings through filters at several simultaneous pitches. She sounds like an organ that's learned to articulate syllables, both singer and instrument at the same time. Distorted, multi-tracked, shifted, and still addictively tuneful, Smith's voice humanizes the work without breaking the spell she casts while commanding her machines."
When has Beck ever let you down?
New album from world music super couple Amadou and Mariam.