New Music CDs

Two-time Grammy Award winner Zach Williams brings his renowned live show straight to fans with his first live project since 2018. This 19-track offering includes Zach's brand-new hits Heart of God and Jesus' Fault in addition to the iconic Chain Breaker and the heartfelt There Was Jesus.

Corinne Bailey Rae's latest is a musical project inspired by the objects and artworks collected by Theaster Gates at the Stoney Island Arts Bank in Chicago. She attended The Black Artists Retreat there in 2017 and performed in the space. The wide ranging themes takes listeners from the rock hewn churches of Ethopia, to the journey of Black Pioneers Westward, from Miss New York Transit Queen 1957, to how the sunset appears from Harriet Jacobs' loophole.

The Twist was by far the biggest dance craze at the turn of the 60s, an era during which made new dance fads seemed to come along every few weeks. However, although The Twist had taken America by storm during 1960, it took a couple of ten years to catch on in the UK. This unique collection takes a look at the UK's reaction to The Twist, presenting an eclectic, unlikely selection of bedfellows, performing mainly (although not entirely) cover versions of US hits. This is almost certainly the only time you'll find Cliff Richard, Billy Fury, Des O'Connor, Shane Fenton, Winifred Atwell, Bert Weedon, The King Brothers, Cyril Stapleton, Craig Douglas, Susan Maughan and Joe Loss all rubbing shoulders, comfortably on the same CD. More than a third of these sides are genuine specialist collectors' rarities, and have never previously appeared on CD.

Almost five years after Bajo tus alas, her last studio album, María still has a lot to say, having become one of the most respected artists of a whole generation, an icon who has combined like no other the non-negotiable commitment to her roots with the most modern music. Since she first stepped onto the stage at the age of 8 and at only 12 years old she was noticed by the great Camarón de la Isla, she has consolidated her personal and unmistakable stamp.
This is how she has cemented a career in which she has been recognised with four Latin Grammys, as well as two Dial Awards, two Amigo Awards and several Gold and Platinum records in countries such as Spain, Colombia and Argentina, among other achievements.

The Japanese band Chai cast a spell on the world in 2017 with their debut album, Pink, a collection of songs that introduced their singular brand of playful pop. The enthusiastically feminist follow-up, PUNK, raked in accolades from the music press and fellow artists. That led to Wink, which Chai made via remote Zoom sessions, a limitation that became a strength by allowing Mana (lead vocals and keys), Kana (guitar), Yuna (drums), and Yuuki (bassist-lyricist) to collaborate with artists abroad to create a work that found catharsis in their international community. Unlike Wink, the band's new self-titled album finds Chai returning to their roots, drawing inspiration from city pop, J-pop, and their Japanese heritage. The album might be the perfect distillation of Chai's ethic: it urges listeners to keep moving through this life with joy and passion.

For the last seven years, singer/songwriter Charlie Worsham has devoted himself to honing his musical vision by collaborating with many of the most innovative musicians in Nashville today, working as a session player and writer, and serving as a central member of a high-profile band of first-rate players. Now, the 27-year-old multi-instrumentalist releases an album that not only reveals his tightly refined musical prowess, but announces Worsham as a country artist of uncommon ingenuity, substance, and soul. Joined by a coterie of musicians carefully assembled through his years of dedication to the Nashville scene, as well as through his studies at Berklee College of Music, Worsham performs the singular feat of infusing each track on his album with a reverence for country's rich heritage while ultimately delivering a bold new sound entirely his own.

Wilco's thirteenth studio album was recorded in the band's legendary Chicago studio, The Loft, over a period of two years. The ten new tracks are written by band leader Jeff Tweedy and feature musical performances by the longtime lineup of Nels Cline, Mikael Jorgensen, Glenn Kotche, John Stirratt, Pat Sansone and, of course, Tweedy on lead vocals. After a short detour back into their country-influenced roots via last year's Cruel Country double album, this release sees Wilco back in their more familiar progressive and experimental rock territory. Tweedy's singular songwriting voice is in full evidence, with lyrics weaving across a variety of topics, from the iconoclastic to the introspective.

Acclaimed singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist latest. The prolific wordsmith embarks on a character-driven adventure with Coyote, a man with demons who is on the run.

Jeff Lorber's funkiest album yet, featuring an amazing all-star lineup including Grammy winning jazz greats Jimmy Haslip, Paul Jackson, Jr, Snarky Puppy's Marc Lettieri, Gary Novak, David Mann and more! Grammy winning superstar keyboardist, writer, producer Jeff Lorber is renowned as a pioneer in the Jazz-Fusion movement. Scoring #1 radio hits with Jeff Lorber Fusion and as a founding member of Smooth Jazz super-group Jazz Funk Soul, Lorber performs constantly before his dedicated fans from coast to coast! Highlights include the uber-funky "The Drop," the warm, intimate "Hang Tight," the bright, uplifting "Reception," and more Lorber originals.

n the year of Florence Price's 70th anniversary, Chineke! Orchestra celebrate the composer's legacy with two of her landmark award-winning pieces which led to her major breakthroughs as a composer. Recorded with Jeneba Kanneh-Mason who, almost a century on, continues the legacy of women championing Price's music for present-day audiences with her recording of the work.

'Gentle Confrontation', Loraine James's third Hyperdub album, opens a new chapter of her real and sonic life in which she examines her past and present. It's a positively languid, enjoyably disjointed set made while listening to her teenage favorites; math rock and emo-electronic such as DNTEL, Lusine, and Telefon Tel Aviv. The album also features an ever more diverse set of peers, placing them in her unusual musical settings and drawing out sensitive and reflexive performances. At other times the album stretches out into a drifting ambiance as if seeking a sense of bliss in the everyday.

On Jeff Rosenstock's new album, the spontaneous DIY trailblazer returns with the most confident and cohesive album of his career. This is yet another exciting glimpse into Rosenstock's powerful and emotionally resonant music, making him one of the most mesmerizing songwriters of the last decade.

Sufjan's first solo album of songs since 2020's The Ascension and his first in full solo singer-songwriter mode since 2015's Carrie & Lowell. Sufjan uses the quietness of a solitary confession to ask universal questions in songs we can share communally. Accompanying the CD is a 48-page book of art and essays. With a series of meticulous collages, cut-up catalog fantasies, puff-paint word clouds, and iterative color fields, Sufjan builds order from seeming chaos and vice versa. And toward the middle of it all are 10 short essays by Sufjan, another window into the process that informed this album.

On Cautious Clay's deeply personal Blue Note debut, the singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer takes an artistic leap forward with an ambitious yet introspective album about growth, conceptions of intimacy and lineage that reveals a new side of his artistry by delving deeper than ever into his jazz influences. Across the album's fifteen tracks, Cautious is heard on vocals, flute, tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, bass clarinet, guitar, synthesizer, and bass.

From UK breakout star to global icon, Sampha's influence is felt throughout contemporary culture. Across a studied career, the south London singer, songwriter, and producer has released a host of era-defining records including 2013's breakthrough "Dual" EP and his Mercury Music Prize winning debut album, 2017's Process. No stranger to collaboration, Sampha is also the inimitable voice called upon by some of the greatest artists of our lifetime, from Kendrick Lamar to Stormzy, Drake to Solange, Frank Ocean to Alicia Keys, and musical releases with the best of the underground. His work expands across multiple disciplines, with previous creative partnerships including the fashion designer Grace Wales Bonner and filmmaker Kahlil Joseph.

Maria do Carmo Carvalho Rebelo de Andrade, better known as Carminho, is a Portuguese fado and popular music singer. She comes from a family of musicians, since her mother, Teresa Siqueira, was a famous fado singer. She is considered one of the most talented and innovative fado singers of her generation.[by whom?] She can be considered as a crossover artist, since her eclectic work shows the heritage of both traditional and contemporary fado, as she also delves into other genres such as Brazilian popular music, bossa nova and pop.

The audio recording of the full-length 2022 St. Olaf Christmas Festival; held in Minneapolis on December 2-3; 2022.

Rabbit Rabbit is the fourth studio album by Philadelphia-based Speedy Ortiz, and their first since 2018. Co-produced with Sarah Tudzin of Illuminati Hotties and recorded in the nearly-alien desert landscapes of Joshua Tree's Rancho de la Luna and El Paso's Sonic Ranch, Rabbit Rabbit reaffirms Speedy Ortiz's desire to push themselves politically and musically, vital and surprising as ever. Since its inception in 2011, Speedy Ortiz has radiated exuberance and dynamism like few other rock bands, having produced an expansive and critically revered discography, toured worldwide, and inspired the next generations of bands with inventive songwriting and advocacy to better the music industry. Songwriter, guitarist, and singer Sadie Dupuis has remained busy as well, releasing solo music (and collaborating with the likes of Lizzo, The New Pornographers, Ben Lee, and Backxwash) under the moniker Sad13, publishing two poetry books, and running the Carpark Records imprint and literary journal, Wax Nine (Spacemoth, Johanna Warren, Melkbelly). Rabbit Rabbit is Speedy Ortiz's first album to feature longtime touring members Audrey Zee Whitesides (bass) and Joey Doubek (drums), who are now full-time contributors alongside Dupuis and Andy Molholt (guitar).

The culmination of Yannick Nézet-Séguin's Rachmaninoff orchestral cycle with his "Fabulous Philadelphians." Reviewing the previous issue with Symphony No. One and the Symphonic Dances, Gramophone lauded Nézet-Séguin's "ability to dig into the extraordinary legacy surrounding Rachmaninoff and Philadelphia while renewing its startling innovation…All the qualities of the Rachmaninoff/Ormandy era have spirited their way back to create a kind of faded opulence…

To mark the occasion of Rachmaninoff's 150th Birthday, Deutsche Grammophon releases Yuja Wang's most ambitious project to date! In February 2023 at Walt Disney Hall, Classical superstar Yuja Wang joined forces with Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic for a sold-out and critically acclaimed Rachmaninoff residency, captured as audio and video by Deutsche Grammophon.

Global icon and recent Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee Dolly Parton has joined forces with some of rock music's most legendary artists along with today's biggest stars for her first-ever rock album. The ever-evolving Parton teamed up with an all-star roster of musicians for the 30-song collection, which includes nine original tracks and 21 covers of iconic rock anthems.

Blonde Redhead return with their first album in nine years and debut. This immersive, meticulously crafted album appropriately serves an expression of persistent togetherness, a testament to the unique internal logic Blonde Redhead have refined over their three-decade existence. Formed in the 1993 New York indie underground, Blonde Redhead quickly found a place on Sonic Youth drummer Steve Shelley's label that traced an arc from angular indie-rock to cosmopolitan art pop. The trio might have been a quintessential '90s band, if not for the fact that they continuously kept going, growing, never confined to any era but the present. This album lands as perhaps the strongest record in a 30-year catalog that's already as illustrious as it is varied. Understated yet visceral melodies charge each song, creating a foil to lyrics about the inescapable struggles of adulthood: communication breakdown in enduring relationships, wondering which way to turn, holding onto your dreams.

Soft scars see Yeule's sound moving in a new direction, inspired by shoegaze, nu-metal, and contemporaries like Alex G and Mitski. The record includes production from Mura Masa and Chris Greatti (Yves Tumor, Grimes). The record comes housed in beautiful packaging and is priced to move! Following the album release, yYeule will be embarking on a 21-date US tour including Portola Festival and Levitation.

From Biber's famous 'Guardian Angel' Passacaglia to Guillemain's 'Amusements' and sonatas and fantasias by Matteis (father and son), Pisendel and Vilsmayr, Isabelle Faust offers us a panorama of European music for unaccompanied violin from the second half of the Baroque era. Dreamy or virtuosic, these pieces bear witness to the diversity of inspirations from Italy, France, England, and the German-speaking countries, and to their marvelous intermingling echoes.

Three-time Grammy winner and superstar Tim McGraw releases his 17th album, which takes its name from his new hit single. McGraw has sold more than 89 million records worldwide, has dominated the charts with 46 #1 singles, and is the most-played country artist since his debut in 1992.

Harold López-Nussa makes his striking Blue Note label debut with Timba a la Americana, a vibrant album teeming with joy and pathos that was inspired by the pianist's recent decision to leave his Cuban homeland and begin a new life in France. Timba a la Americana presents 10 dynamic new original compositions performed by a tight-knit band featuring harmonica virtuoso Gregoire Maret, Luques Curtis on bass, Bárbaro "Machito" Crespo on congas, and Harold's brother Ruy Adrián López-Nussa on drums.

Grammy and IBMA Award winners the SteelDrivers continue to redefine bluegrass music, showcasing seasoned musicianship and seamless vocal harmonies that are familiar yet fresh. Accomplished veterans individually, the quintet combines country, soul, and blues stylings for their gospel debut, Tougher Than Nails.

The 2023 release from the Cuban singer and 'Diva of Buena Social Club. At the age of 90, Omara found herself stuck in Havana due to the pandemic, and the busy lady, like everyone else, had to put the tours on hold. Known for her compassion and her sense of humanity, Omara naturally chose to express herself through music in those significant times of human history. Omara has so much love to give and with her tremendous energy, she invited lifelong friends and colleagues to participate in the long-distance project, a way to keep each other close. Omara's son, Ariel Jiménez Portuondo, who has been taking care of Omara's career and her well-being for the past two decades, organized the recordings, well knowing his mother's need for action. This album is a tribute to Omara's musical legacy.

On her expansive new album, Chicago musician and poet Jamila Woods shines anew as she asks the question, what does it mean to fully surrender into love? Across the album, Jamila embraces new genres, playful melodies, and hypnotizing wordplay, as she wades through the exhilarating tumult of love's wreckage and refuge.

Following its surprise digital release, Sigur Rós's first new studio album in 10 years is their most intimate and emotionally direct record to date. Few bands cut through the noise and distractions of the world to bring you a pure elemental truth or feeling like Sigur Rós. As you hear on this reléase, there's a new compulsion and drive to the band that comes with the new formation of the lineup. The album leans heavily towards the orchestral, and touches on everything that has made Sigur Rós one of the most ambitious and acclaimed bands of recent times, with close to ten million albums sold, whilst signposting an exciting and expansive possibility for their future.