Each Friday, Stephen Mejias, AudioQuest’s Director of Communications and former Stereophile and Audiostream.com columnist, will browse through the many exciting albums released that day and select 15 worth a closer listen.
Aldous Harding: Designer (4AD) [If you listen to only one of these recommendations, make it this one.—SM]
Marissa Nadler, Stephen Brodsky: Droneflower (Sacred Bones)
Kevin Morby: Oh My God (Dead Oceans)
Ezra Collective: You Can’t Steal My Joy (Enter the Jungle)
The Mountain Goats: In League with Dragons (Merge Records)
Teen Daze: Bioluminescence (Flora)
Amon Tobin: Fear In a Handful of Dust (Nomark)
Sunn O))): Life Metal (Southern Lord)
Kevin Abstract: Arizona Baby (Question Everything Inc./RCA Records)
Pete Rock: Return of the SP1200 (Tru Soul)
Prefuse 73: Fudge Beats (Lex Records)
Claude Fontaine: s/t (Innovative Leisure)
Altin Gün: Gece (ATO Records)
Ahmedou Ahmed Lowla: Terrouzi (Sahel Sounds)
Tujiko Noriko: Kuro (PAN)