New Music CDs

Khruangbin is an American musical trio from Houston, Texas. The band is Laura Lee Ochoa on bass, Mark Speer on guitar, and DJ Johnson on drums. The band is known for blending global music influences, such as classic soul, dub, rock and psychedelia.

'Altera Vita' is the first studio album by world-renowned multi-award-winning artists Tony Kofi (tenor saxophone) and Alina Bzhezhinska (harp) as a duo. The album is saxophone and harp in perfect harmony with Tony and Alina also providing the bulk of the percussion to accompany their recordings. Tony Kofi is widely recognized as one of the leading Jazz saxophonists in the UK and his duties include regularly lending his skills to legendary group Cymande for their live performances.

The first Spanish-language album of Sheila E's career includes the first single Bemba Colora with Gloria Estefan and Latin Grammy nominee Mimi Succar. Other guest artists include Ruben Blades, Luis Enrique, Gilberto Santa Rosa, Jean Rodriguez, Victor Manuelle, and Jose Alberto El Canario.

Type O Negative is an American goth-metal band formed in Brooklyn in 1989 by Peter Steele (lead vocals, bass) along with childhood friends Kenny Hickey (guitar, backing vocals), Josh Silver (keyboards, backing vocals), and Sal Abruscato (drums, percussions), who was later replaced by Johnny Kelly. They signed to Roadrunner Records and released their debut album Slow, Deep and Hard in 1991.

Analog Africa's long-awaited journey to the musical heart of the African continent, presents fourteen funky, hypnotic and schizophrenic tunes from the 1970s, meticulously distilled from an initial selection of around 2000. The double LP compilation highlight the many facets of the Congolese capitals, Kinshasa and Brazzaville, uniting veterans and youth orchestras, famous and obscure, who pushed Rumba to new heights and electrified an entire continent with an indestructible groove

With base notes of Texas country, full-bodied Americana, and flutters of rim-shot percussion, Elliott BROOD infuses their own experiences into the 1970s hit. Transformed into a true country ripper, Bluebird Wine chirps and hops along with a peppy verve. True to form, Elliott Brood layers on their signature stomp-and-clap sound and their unique blend of vocal tones, creating an elixir of lifestyle, a feeling to imbibe that brings joy and fullness.

This is the fourth collaboration album for John Primer and Bob Corritore. John and Bob always have had the Chicago spark. It was evident on their first release together in 2013, and on each release since. But this particular album feels like a new height has been achieved. There is a simultaneous, rocking forcefulness, while also exhibiting an uninhibited, gliding easiness. This album also features arguably the best possible A team for Chicago blues! With Bob Stroger on the bass, Jimi Primetime Smith on second Guitar, Anthony Geraci on the piano, and Wes Starr on drums, this band sounds like the Muddy Waters band of decades ago! Both Primer and Corritore appear at the top of their game with Primer recently inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame, as well as numerous award wins, and a Grammy nomination. Likewise, Corritore has been actively hitting the European festival circuit, released 5 critically acclaimed albums in 2023, was the subject of numerous articles, and received numerous nominations, and several wins. But all of that is secondary to what happens in the studio and what you have in your hand is a powerful straight-ahead album of sacred Chicago blues done by two artists who have devoted their entire lives to the purity of the blues.

What can you say about the bass playing (and way more) legend that is Ade Shaw? During a long and mind-altering career, Ade has played with many outfits, most notably psych warlords Hawkwind, for whom he provided his trademark basslines for several years in the mid '70s. More recently (the last 30 years actually!) he has been the bass player in The Bevis Frond. For the last year or two, however, he has had to stand down from touring and gigging for personal reasons, but happily this has not prevented him from recording a new album. So, it is with great pride and delight that we are now able to release this album on Blue Matter. Eleven brand Adrian Shaw new songs ranging from out and out psychedelia, through rock to even a splash of lilting balladry. With Ade playing all the instruments bar a couple of guest appearances from Nick Saloman and Bari Watts, this is the Ade Shaw album we've all been waiting for.

Shabazz Palaces' two new mini albums, Robed in Rareness and Exotic Birds of Prey, come out on CD and LP. Shabazz Palaces is masterminded by Ishmael Butler (Digable Planets), whose relentless drive to reimagine hip-hop, even as he enjoys his fifth decade on Earth, remains undiminished. Exotic Birds of Prey furthers the modus operandi of Robed in Rareness: a respectful eye on the past, an embrace of an ever-evolving present, with its feet firmly planted in the future. Where Robed warped sounds like shoegaze and ambient music into the Shabazz Palaces multiverse, Exotic cross-pollinates these elements with twisted electro and funk vibes.

For more or less a brand-new artist, Fabiana Palladino faces an unusual level of anticipation. The London musician broke out in 2017 as one of the Paul Institute's founding artists after her shadowy, classicist R&B influenced pop reached Jai Paul, who started the label alongside his brother A. K. Paul. Releasing just three singles in four years, she caught the ear of critics, but Palladino's output remained slight while she worked as an in-demand session musician for the likes of SBTRKT and Jessie Ware, cycling from one tour to the next. This year, she formed part of Jai's band for his live debut (which she also supported), the most wildly awaited performances in years.

The 12th and last studio album by Enrique Iglesias has more diverse music genres. It infuses pop, cumbia, bachata, and elements of country. The album features 10 tracks, some of which include collaborations like Maria Becerra, Yotuel, Belinda, and El Alfa. Don't miss the final chapter in the iconic journey of Enrique Iglesias, who has left an indelible mark on the Latin music industry.

The Baltimore born singer-songwriter, is taking natural steps as a versatile talent from chapter to chapter in his career. His third album is the result of these latest steps. It finds its home on the dance floor of Black gay clubs and the intimate moments that happen there and afterward, no matter the location. It explores the small moments of physical touch and how they occur. The album and the Black gay club share an interesting juxtaposition: the club is public; the dancefloor is obviously a place where people look at and watch one another. At the same time, the Black gay club is a safe community space, it is "for us", and in that way is very private, very intimate. These clubs provided a different atmosphere for him, a different comfort, and a different sense of welcoming that nurtured him in a new way. From start to finish, this album sonically lives the highs and lows of not only a night out at the club but of romance as well.

Magnolia Park, the Florida based genre-bending alternative rock band who play more than 200 shows a year, are releasing their third album. Since forming in Orlando, Florida, in 2019, the five-piece act-vocalist Joshua Roberts, guitarists Tristan Torres and Freddie Criales, drummer Joe Horsham, and keyboardist Vincent Ernst have released two albums, three EPs, and a handful of singles, bringing their upbeat brand of alt-rock to the masses. While Magnolia Park's music is at times lighthearted, the ethnically diverse band are also serious about spreading a message of inclusivity and inspiring other kids like them to start bands as a form of creative expression.

It was in Rome, where he resided between 1707 and 1710, that the young Handel composed these three dazzling sacred works. The Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin and the RIAS Kammerchor give us an extremely lively and colorful reading of these pieces in which the composer showcased his talent: allegiance to the forms of the past, total mastery of counterpoint and, already, a unique feeling for storytelling. Everything here announces musical genius.

Opened up by the delirious alchemy of contemporary pop music, Sean O'Hagan leaps back into life with High Llamas, with a set of killer tunes reflecting on dimensional levels how definitions change over time. Arranged by Sean and produced with mix collaborator Fryars to engage the eardrums in non-stop new possibilities, this album radiates optimism inspired by the joys and sorrows felt in former lifetimes and the diverse conundrums of today alike.

To Cedric Burnside, this album is a culmination of a career that's already seen astonishing accomplishments and only keeps growing. When Cedric prepared to record the follow-up to his 2021 Grammy-winning album 'I Be Trying', he set up shop in a former legal office located in a row of structures in the seat of Tippah County, a town with 5,000 residents that's known as the birthplace of the Hill Country Blues style. The fourteen songs on the record were finished in two days, but in addition to being satisfied with the sound, Burnside believes that his eleventh album represents real creative progress.

The eagerly anticipated sophomore album from Norway-born and Oslo-based singer-songwriter girl in red. This 10-song album chronicles the artist's last two and a half years with honesty and wit, and a willingness to play around with her music.

Prolific drummer Ken Serio's latest project is the band The Jazz Warriors. He assembled an international lineup of musicians, such as Japanese pianist Tomoko Ohno, Greek guitarist Sakis Zachariades, bassist Jedd Chlebowski, flutist & singer Ali Ryerson and vocalist Josi Davis. (Deep Purple), Mel Galley (Whitesnake), and Dave Holland (Judas Priest) recorded this album and the follow up You Are the Music... We're Just the Band in 1972 before that line-up disbanded when Hughes left in 1973 to join Deep Purple.

El León de Oro and Peter Phillips offer a collection of works representative of a school of Flemish composers living in Madrid towards the end of the Renaissance and all employed by Philip II of Spain, who held composers from the Low Countries in particularly high regard. La Hèle's Mass, here receiving its first complete recording, is a major discovery.

Over the last couple of decades, Charlie Parr has crisscrossed the world on tour more times than one can count. He also has released over a dozen albums of his songs, acclaimed for their poetic simplicity. This his most ambitious album to date, was recorded with Tucker Martine (The Decemberists, Sufjan Stevens, My Morning Jacket) and features Parr augmenting his raw and affecting songs with stunning full-band arrangements. Masterfully channeling the philosophical and transcendental qualities of the blues, Parr takes us on a journey through the winding streets of his imagination.

Shooting Daggers are fast becoming a fiery beacon at the beating heart of the burgeoning UK hardcore scene. Plus, their full on live shows have made them a must see proposition. Whether it's Desertfest, supporting Amyl & The Sniffers, a plethora of underground gigs and festivals across the UK and Europe including Fluff and Burn It Down. Or sharing the stage with the cream of up and coming American hardcore, Scowl, Gel, Zulu, Spaced, and being personally asked to play the 'Cult Of Luna' curated 'Beyond The Red Shift.' There's no doubt that Shooting Daggers are most certainly in demand.

Mike Post transformed and redefined the sound of music in TV and films over a half-century, and now the Emmy and Grammy-winning American composer and musical man-for-all-seasons has realized his own creative challenge in this release, a unique new recording from Sony Masterworks.

The companion to Alice Randall's book is a powerful compilation of Black female country artists rerecording the greatest songs of Alice's catalog.

"-- represents a continuation of adventure and discovery for me. Even inherent in the meaning of my name Andre 3000, there is a wonder or looking forward to the new or what is next. This discovery has happened many times in my life and career and it's very exciting to witness. I say 'witness' because I am also watching it happen along with you all and I never really know what will come or how I will respond or interpret the inspiration. We all have aspirations, ideas or plans but isn't it the most awesome when life surprises us in a way that becomes greater than anything we could have imagined? 'This album' and the process in which it was recorded is that discovery and witnessing being played out in real time, alive, breathing and improvised. It's much more than 'Andre's flute album'. Ha." - Andre 3000

Vampire Weekend is back with their first new album since 2019's Father of the Bride. It features the singles Capricorn and Gen-X Cops.

Sometimes you have to move backwards to move forwards. Just ask punk cultural commentators Bodega, whose new album sees them carve a new future from fuzz-soaked, consumerism-skewering shards of their past. This is Bodega's first album released through Chrysalis Records. "It's something we've been wanting to do for years," guitarist and vocalist Ben Hozie explains of this collection of catchy indie-rock ruminations on the slow-creep of corporate-think into youth culture, first written eight years ago. The fifteen tracks explore indie-rock subgenres, self-critique and everything in between.

Shabazz Palaces' two new mini albums, Robed in Rareness and Exotic Birds of Prey, come out on CD and LP. Shabazz Palaces is masterminded by Ishmael Butler (Digable Planets), whose relentless drive to reimagine hip-hop, even as he enjoys his fifth decade on Earth, remains undiminished. Exotic Birds of Prey furthers the modus operandi of Robed in Rareness: a respectful eye on the past, an embrace of an ever-evolving present, with its feet firmly planted in the future. Where Robed warped sounds like shoegaze and ambient music into the Shabazz Palaces multiverse, Exotic cross-pollinates these elements with twisted electro and funk vibes.

Through an inimitable voice that the New York Times touts as 'a smooth, dark alto possessed of qualities you might associate with barrel-aged bourbon or butter-soft leather,' acclaimed vocalist and songwriter Lizz Wright sings with a soaring reflection of the cultural fabric of America. Wright is one of the great modern American singers with an illustrious 20-year career transcending social divides with her focus on love and a deep sense of humanity.

After debuting atop the charts in numerous countries with his third album. A deluxe edition featuring nine bonus tracks. Horan collaborates with Lizzy McAlpine on a new version of You Could Start A Cult and teams up with John Legend to reimagine the album's title track. The collection also includes new live recordings from the Electric Picnic festival and Spotify Studios, plus alternate versions from Niall's Vevo Extended Play session.

McCalla draws from the writings of Black feminist Afrofuturist thinkers Octavia Butler, Alexis Pauline Gumbs and Adrienne Maree Brown, among others, with frequent themes being grief, connection and motherhood. Like these authors, McCalla is thinking hard about collaboration as a means of creative expression, community thinking, personal salvation, and rectifying social injustice.

The new album from X Ambassaors is inspired by their experience growing up in small town in update New York. While the lyrics are hyper-specific about the band's own hometown, the sentiment is universal.

Featuring performances by an array of Jamaican legends, this CD includes 4 unforgettable UK chart-toppers, with many of the remaining recordings making the country's Top 20! Overflowing with positive vibes, memorable melodies, and irresistible rhythms, this essential feel-good collection is guaranteed to get feet moving, fill dance floors and spread joy any time of the year.