New Music CDs

Rising star alto saxophonist Sarah Hanahan’s debut album Among Giants showcases her raw talent, her unique voice, and her deeply felt, instantly memorable compositions. The album also demonstrates why she’s the heir to a jazz tradition she’s long revered, teaming her up with a band of legends who’ve helped nurture the young lion’s burgeoning career

5x Grammy and Oscar winner Jon Batiste returns with a pure piano album, Beethoven Blues (Batiste Piano Series, Vol. 1). Reimagining the transcendent works of Ludwig van Beethoven alongside original compositions inspired by Batiste's youth competing in local piano competitions and gigging in the heart of New Orleans, the album extends timeless classics across the genre spectrum.

Marking his 30th anniversary, beloved tenor Andrea Bocelli, the most celebrated classical singer in modern history, celebrates his iconic career. This new career-spanning collection features songs with Ed Sheeran, Pavarotti, Celine Dion, Zucchero, Matteo Bocelli, Stevie Wonder, Jennifer Lopez, Dua Lipa, Georgio, Lang Lang, and Cecilia Bartoli, alongside brand-new superstar collaborations. Two CD set with 32-page booklet included.

For Natty, music isn’t just pleasure, it is also a healing power. The London-raised singer-songwriter has been on a remarkable journey of creative and personal discovery in recent years, moving his partner and children to rural Jamaica to live off-grid and off the land, while delving deep into studies on music’s mental and physiological properties. The result of this journeying is Natty’s expansive, fourth album, The Divine Trinity. Across nine tracks he employs his trademark vocal power and uplifting melodies to explore everything from earthy funk grooves to guitar-strummed yearning, emphatic spoken word entreaties and spacious, dubbed-out reggae.

The title of Mustafa's breathtakingly tender full-length debut, roughly translates from Arabic to "the world in all its flaws." It's a lofty subject for a young songwriter, but as with every theme at the heart of the Sudanese-Canadian artist's work-from religious devotion to childhood trauma, gang violence to romantic intimacy-he approaches it through a personal lens. Blending genres and moods, weaving novelistic details into instantly memorable folk songs, he has crafted a record that feels like a series of personal breakthroughs, arriving one after the other. Mustafa evolved swiftly from a child prodigy reciting poems throughout his native Toronto to a behind-the-songs pop songwriting force. Exploring his upbringing and trajectory onward, these songs are equally disarming in their simplicity and multilayered in their emotional breadth. Even when it sounds like he's taking on the world, Mustafa is speaking only for himself: a story that he knows is just getting started.

A lost solo piano record from the Night Tripper! Originally put to tape in 1982 and '83 for the Clean Cuts label, these tracks have remained unheard until now. Two numbers feature the doc's raspy growl while his solo piano navigates us through the rest of the train ride, past touches of blues, jazz, and foot-stompin' boogie-woogie jive. It's the kind of magic that can only come from a dusty tape box.

Linkin Park begins a new era with their first new album since 2017. It is also the first album to feature new lead vocalist Emily Armstrong and new drummer Colin Brittain. Features the single The Emptiness Machine.

Four-time Grammy Award winner and three-time CMA Entertainer of the Year Keith Urban releases his 11th studio album on Capitol Nashville Records. The brand-new collection of 11 songs includes Go Home W U (with Lainey Wilson); Chuck Taylors; and the hit single Messed Up as Me. It showcases Urban's extraordinary talents as a vocalist, virtuoso guitarist, songwriter, and collaborator.

Jody Stecher has made an intense and memorable new recording. The repertoire is outstanding the feel is fabulous the vocal support and instrumental detail by Mile Twelve is superb and very personal. The band is on fire ignited by the spark of Jody's impassioned singing and guitar. The format is recognizable as old-style, blues-tinged old-time flavored bluegrass but nothing here is generic or predictable. It is an uplifting riveting album of music made by alert able committed musicians with something to say and the musical means to say it.

The bestselling and most-awarded female gospel artist of all time, CeCe Winans has long since cemented her status as one of the most accomplished and celebrated women in modern music history. With more than one billion streams in the United States, her mantel today holds a staggering 15 Grammy Awards, 28 Dove Awards, 15 Stellar Awards, and a Billboard Music Award. This is her second solo foray into music celebrating the advent. Featuring 12 songs ranging from familiar favorites to brand new originals, this album is sure to put everyone in the Christmas spirit.

The second album from Grammy-nominated Haitian-American singer and composer Nathalie Joachim, Ki moun ou ye, was released on Nonesuch and New Amsterdam Records on February 16, 2024. Its title track, and a video shot in Haiti, directed by Gessica Généus, are available now. Across the record’s ten intimate, original songs, Joachim ponders its title’s question: “Who are you?” Inspired by the remote Caribbean farmland that her family continues to call home after seven generations, Ki moun ou ye travels deeper into the Haitian heritage introduced on Joachim’s Grammy-nominated 2019 New Amsterdam release, Fanm d’Ayiti.

The highly anticipated fourth album from Grammy Award-winning recording artist, songwriter, and performer Leon Bridges. With thirteen tracks featuring Leon's signature storytelling and a unique blend of organic genre alchemy, this is his most poignant, powerful, and personal work to date. He takes fans on a trip through the heart of Ft. Worth he knows best, the things he holds dear, and the people and places that shaped him. Featuring production by Ian Fitchuk (Beyonce, Noah Kahan), Daniel Tashian (Kacey Musgraves), and Tyler Johnson (Harry Styles, Miley Cyrus), Leon describes the album as "somewhat of a self-portrait… I'm excited to share these stories about my home, about nostalgia, about my upbringing, about where I'm from, with all of you. I hope this music brings you back to your roots and your journey."

The sophomore album from Big Loud's esteemed visionary and Nashville's most unpredictable hitmaker ERNEST. On the 26-track project, Ernest pays homage to his hometown and the créatives that make up the fabric of Music City. Produced by Joey Moi, the project brings to life the musical vision one the modern era's most impactful country hitmakers.

JD McPherson has created something unique and amazing with his latest album, his first album release since 2018's critically acclaimed Christmas classic, SOCKS. Over the past five plus years, McPherson has stayed consistently busy writing new songs while at the same time touring with Alison Krauss and Robert Plant. With this album, JD wanted to try something new and different. He wanted to take the inspiration from multiple decades and styles and incorporate them into his own sound. It delivers the signature sounds of vintage garage-rock while also seamlessly bridging the sounds of Bowie and Alan Vega. McPherson takes inspiration from multiple genres of the past and combines them together to evolve a sound that is all his own.

Here comes the second full-length release from the Linda Lindas, which further advances their unironic, joyful, and exciting trajectory of mashing up LA punk with alt-rock, garage rock, power pop, new wave, and rock en español. It was written and recorded by the band during spring breaks, winter breaks, and long weekends (Lucia and Eloise are still in high school, Mila just finished middle school, and Bela is patiently waiting for them to get done with it already) and was produced by Carlos de la Garza (Paramore, Best Coast, Bleached).

Yonder Mountain String Band is up to something different with their self titled album. They combine traditional bluegrass, improvisation, and other eclectic sounds, to create a sound they call jamgrass.

Born out of her time on the road, Samara Joy took her touring band into legendary Van Gelder Studios in February of 2024. This record, appropriately entitled, is a collection of standards (as well as one original) and features her singular voice, alongside arrangements from this tight-knit young group. The recording tells the story of the community she's created with a new generation of young players and is evocative of the energy of her incredible live show.

Shadow's Symphony creator Grant Smoker has loved everything to do with Halloween since he was a kid and always wanted to be able to contribute or be a part of Halloween in some way. Hearing music at Haunted Attractions inspired him to start writing and recording. He writes this instrumental music with haunted attractions, films, and gaming in mind. Since 2014 Shadow's Symphony has been played in haunts around the world. Each album that he writes has a different theme, which means different instrumentation as well as style that pertain to the theme of the album. There's a bit of everything from melancholy piano to full blown dark orchestral strings and creepy ambient synth over the course of an album. The haunting instrumentals will take you to that eerie place where only you and the ghosts still reside.

After nearly three decades, eleven albums, and thousands of shows worldwide, Skillet play louder, fight harder, and sound more rebellious than ever. As of 2024, the band has received two-time Grammy® Award nominations, picked up a Billboard Music Award, and landed three albums in the Top 5 of the Billboard 200. Selling over 22 million units worldwide, they have notched multiplatinum, platinum, or gold RIAA certifications for a total of twelve singles and four full-length albums. Not to mention, Skillet expanded their world with the graphic novel series Eden. The first installment stood out as Z2 Comics' best-selling book of all-time. Now, the global hard rock quartet-John Cooper, Korey Cooper, Jen Ledger, and Seth Morrison, deliver an insurgent, infectious, and inimitable body of work with their twelfth full-length offering and first-ever independent album led by the single 'Unpopular.'

On Pedro the Lion's new album, critically acclaimed musician David Bazan returns with a new chapter in his ambitious and ongoing recording project; five albums devoted to places he lived in throughout his life. This is Bazan's third album in the series and follows up where 2022's Havasu and 2019's Phoenix left off. Tracks like "Modesto" and "Little Help" foreshadow Bazan's exposure and ultimate love of classic rock n' roll records, while songs like "It'll All Work Out" highlight his unique approach to synthesizers, something he introduced with the 2005 self-titled Headphones album. The stories here highlight Bazan's teenage years and solidifies what he sees as an exposition in a traditional three-act structure.

The American Songbook with compositions by Monk, Mercer, Gershwin, Rodgers, Hart, Cahn, Billy Joel, Paul Williams & more. Disc one features tracks from studio sessions in '78 & '80 with backing from Hubert Laws, Grover Washington, Jr, Freddie Hubbard and more. Disc two features previously unreleased live performances from Europe '80, '82 & '89. In a prolific recording career that spanned five decades, Carmen McRae received a National Endowment For The Arts Jazz Fellowship Award for Lifetime achievement and considered a peer of Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan, and Ella Fitzgerald.

Fat Freddy's Drop hit the ground running with new studio album, a bass-heavy blast of redemption and resolution. Described by Fitchie as 'afro rhythmic soul music, an exploration of Black music from Polynesia', this heady mix creates the undefinable Freddy's sound. Renowned worldwide for euphoric live shows, the Aotearoa band stepped inside their BAYS studio in Wellington, sunup to sundown, to craft a sixth studio album.

Experience the rich legacy with Dolly Parton & Family's two CD set with a deep dive booklet. This essential, must-have collection blends traditional country, bluegrass, pop and rock, celebrating the Owens and Parton families' deep Appalachian roots. Featuring timeless recordings that span generations, this landmark release is a powerful tribute to two iconic American families.

After sixteen years, The Cure is back with their fourteenth studio album. Songs from the record were previewed during their 90-date, 33-country 'Shows Of A Lost World' tour for more than 1.3 million people to overwhelming fan and critical acclaim. Speaking about, "Alone," the opening track on the album, Robert Smith says, "It's the track that unlocked the record; as soon as we had that piece of music recorded, I knew it was the opening song and I felt the whole album come into focus-- that was the moment when I knew the song - and the album - were real." Robert Smith created the sleeve concept and Andy Vella, a longtime Cure collaborator, handled the album's art and design. The cover art features 'Bagatelle,' a 1975 sculpture by Janez Pirnat.

Still + Bright finds Amythyst Kiah exploring the vast expanse of her inner world. Produced by Butch Walker and featuring songs with Billy Strings, SG Goodman, and Avi Kaplan, Kiah offers a darkly cinematic twist with her third album. With its sonic palette encompassing everything from fuzzed-out guitars and industrial-leaning beats to gilded pedal steel and Kiah's exquisitely graceful banjo work, Still + Bright fully affirms her as an artist of both daring originality and uncompromising depth.

Brand new collection of Studio One killer tunes, focussing on the late '70s, '80s and beyond.
Since the early 1960s Clement 'Sir Coxsone' Dodd had established Studio One as the unparalleled leader in reggae music in the world. In the years that followed he established the careers of countless reggae legends, Bob Marley & The Wailers, Marcia Griffiths, The Skatalites, Horace Andy, Dennis Brown, Burning Spear and many more. From its inception Studio One had been at the forefront of every major development in reggae music, ska, rocksteady, roots, DJ, dub and, starting in the second half of the 1970s, dancehall.

Recorded live from The Savoy Theater in London. With lead Nicole Scherzinger, this Andrew Lloyd Webber and Jamie Lloyd reimagining of the stage classic has been met with great critical acclaim.

Lin-Manuel Miranda joins forces with Pulitzer Prize finalist Eisa Davis for a concept album based on the 1979 film and novel. The album features performances from Marc Anthony, Luis Figueroa, and more.

Elevation Worship's new album builds on the unprecedented success of their 2023 release, Can You Imagine? The new project features fourteen tracks led by Elevation's Chris Brown, Tiffany Hudson, Jonsal Barrientes, Jenna Barrientes, and Bella Cordero. Guest vocals include Leeland Mooring, Joe L. Barnes, and Chandler Moore with Pastor Steven Furtick making an appearance on the album's first track, "New Thing Coming." Elevation Worship recorded these songs across two different worship nights over the past year; many of which have become regular staples in Elevation Church's weekend setlists, such as: "God Is Not Against Me;" "Owe You Praise;" and "Sure Been Good."

Acony Records is proud to present Woodland, the new album by the preeminent songwriting team Gillian Welch & David Rawlings. Following up their homespun GRAMMY-winning release All The Good Times, this ambitious 10 song album mingles full band tracks with intricate duet performances all tied together with the duo's signature sound and remarkable lyricism. Woodland was recorded in Nashville, Tennessee at Welch and Rawlings' own Woodland Sound Studio (newly rebuilt after the 2020 tornado) and cements the duo's iconoclastic position at the forefront of acoustic music.