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.
Open Mike Eagle: another triumph of ghetto engineering (Auto Reverse Records)
Daði Freyr: I Made An Album (AWAL)
The Armed: Perfect Saviors (Sargent House)
SPELLLING: SPELLLING & The Mystery School (Sacred Bones Records)
75 Dollar Bill: Power Failures (Thin Wrist Recordings)
Ratboys: The Window (Topshelf Records)
Buck Meek: Haunted Mountain (4AD)
Jaimie Branch: Fly or Die Fly or Die Fly or Die ((world war)) (International Anthem)
Danger Mouse & Jemini: Born Again (Lex Records)
A Giant Dog: Bite (Merge Records)
Fay Victor: Blackity Black Black Is Beautiful (Northern Spy Records)
Jay Rodriguez Sierra: Muthaflower (Jay Rodriguez Sierra)
Various Artists: My Words Are Music: A Celebration of Sun Ra’s Poetry (Omni Sound)
Nick Cave & Warren Ellis: Australian Carnage – Live At The Sydney Opera House (AWAL)
Be Your Own Pet: Mommy (Third Man Records)