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.
Arca: XXXXX (XL Recordings)
Moor Mother, Wadada Leo Smith, Amina Claudine Myers, Taylor Deupree, Thomas Morgan, Kalia Vandever, BlankFor.Ms. Qasim Navqi, Kit Downes, Sungjae Son, Martha Deribe, Simone Maggio, Andrew Cyrille: Peace Anthems (Red Hook Records)
The Durutti Column: Renascent (London Records Ltd.)
Shearwater: The New World (Shearwater Music)
Mount Kimbie: fabric presents Mount Kimbie (fabric Records)
Sir Richard Bishop: Hillbilly Erotica (Drag City Records)
DOMi & JD Beck: WHO ASKED? (UMG)
Patricia Wolf: Music To Watch Seeds Grow By 009: Patricia Wolf (Yarrow) (Music To Watch Seeds Grow By)
Michael Tilson Thomas, Verbier Festival Orchestra: Bruckner Symphony No. 7 (Deutsche Grammophon)
Jordi Savall: Bach: Johannes-Passion (Alia Vox)
Terri Lyne Carrington, Social Science, Aaron Parks & Matthew Stevens: Trip the Night Fantastic (Candid Records)
Opus Kink: The Sweet Goodbye (So Recordings)
Camerata Tchaikovsky Soloists: Metamorphosen (Orchid Music Ltd)
Cautious Clay: The Hours: High Noon (Fantasy Records)
Mallory Hawk: Chinook (Mallory Hawk)