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December 16, 2016The sprawling sixth outing from the Man on the Moon returns Cudi to introspective hip-hop, providing therapy and hope in four acts.
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December 16, 2016The legendary singer marks his 90th birthday with an all-star concert at Radio City Music Hall in New York City.
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December 16, 201640th anniversary edition contains live outtakes, a 1976 concert, cover versions by Dave Grohl and Taylor Hawkins, Steven Wilson, Alice in Chains, and more.
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December 16, 2016The Michigan-based garage pop group, led by songwriter Autumn Wetli, expands its sound on its third album.
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December 16, 2016Sixteen years after its last album, the gritty Yonkers rap trio makes a welcome return with guests like DJ Premier, Pete Rock, and Mobb Deep.
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October 28, 2016Downes realizes that concert music influenced by jazz and blues or spirituals mixes naturally with actual jazz or blues pieces.
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November 11, 2016This release, elegantly suitable for festive holiday listening, is part of a generally fresh series by Septura on Naxos.
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November 18, 2016Bryars emerges here as a kind of British counterpart to Arvo Pärt, with similarly spiritual and mystical leanings.
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December 9, 2016With his second album of 2016, Neil Young delivers a shambolic and odd protest album.
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December 9, 2016Songs and instrumentals from the film by Whiplash composer Justin Hurwitz and lyricists Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, including a tune by John Legend.
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December 9, 2016The consistently brilliant electronic duo follows a series of limited 12"s with a thrilling album of mutated club tracks.
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December 9, 2016A double-disc collection that contains the A- and B-sides of all the singles Buck Owens & His Buckaroos released between 1957 and 1966.
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December 9, 2016The jazz icon's singles, ranging from '50s doo wop tunes to spoken intergalactic wisdom, are collected on this essential three-CD set.
Charlie Haden / Charlie Haden & The Liberation Music Orchestra
Time/Life (Song for the Whales and Other Beings)
November 4, 2016
Produced by Ruth Cameron Haden and Bley, along with Jean-Philippe Allard and Farida Bachir, Time/Life (Song for the Whales and Other Beings) is an atmospheric, elegiac album inspired by Haden's longstanding love and concern for the environment. Two of the songs, Bley's evocative arrangement of Miles Davis' "Blue in Green" and Haden's "Song for the Whales," are culled from the live concert and bookend the album. Opening with a haunting, bowed rubato intro in which Haden mimics whale sounds, "Song for the Whales" shifts gears into a searing, confrontational statement centered on saxophonist Tony Malaby's furious improvisation.
1989
Perhaps in response to the failed big production of 1986's Big Canoe and the success of brother Neil's back-to-basics outfit, Crowded House, Finn simplified his approach for his self-titled album, joining forces with Crowded House producer Mitchell Froom. A touching and intensely personal album, Finn bares all, revealing self-doubts, regrets, and a failed relationship with intricate detail.
