Each Friday, Stephen Mejias, AudioQuest’s Director of Communications and former Stereophile and Audiostream columnist, will browse through the many exciting albums released that day and select 15 worth a closer listen.
Fontaines D.C.: Romance (XL Recordings)
Wayne Shorter: Celebration, Volume 1 (Live) (UMG)
Spirit of the Beehive: You’ll Have to Lose Something (Saddle Creek)
Fake Fruit: Mucho Mistrust (Carpark Records)
Body Meat: Starchris (Partisan Records)
Magdalena Bay: Imaginal Disk (Mom+Pop)
Uniform: American Standard (Sacred Bones Records)
Gary Bartz: Ju Ju Man (The Harlem Sessions)
GIFT: Illuminator (Captured Tracks)
Nicole Mitchell and Ballaké Sissoko: Bamako*Chicago Sound System (FPR Records)
Chime School: The Boy Who Ran The Paisley Hotel (Slumberland Records)
Zeal and Ardor: GREIF (Redacted GMBH)
Emma Russack: About the Girl (Dinosaur City)
Benny Trokan: Do You Still Think of Me (Daptone Records)
Zach Barocas New Freedom Sound: Two Freedoms (Zach Barocas)
Holy Tongue meets Shackleton: The Tumbling Psychic Joy of Now (AD93 Records)