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.
Chelsea Wolfe: The Dark (Loma Vista Recordings)
Rapsody: God Gotta Afro & Gold Hoops (Original Version) (Roc Nation Records)
Denzel Curry & Kenny Beats: ii (Loma Vista Recordings)
Julia Holter: Materia (Domino Recording Co)
Cleo Sol: Gentlewoman (Forever Living Originals)
Wild Pink: Still Coming Down (Fire Talk)
Grandmas House: Baby You’re A Winner (Brace Yourself Records)
Afghan Whigs: Soft Control (BMG)
Brennan Wedl: Brennan Wedl (Anti- Records)
The Barbarians of California: MEGATONS (Villains for Good)
Henry Threadgill, Vijay Iyer, Dafnis Prieto: Fifteen (Nonesuch Records)
Linda May Han Oh: Beneath Lifted Skies (Biophilia Records)
Sam Amidon & Sam Wilkes: Froggy (Sam Amidon & Sam Wilkes)
Lambchop: Punching the Clown (Merge Records)
Elanor Moss: The Knife, The Needle (Merge Records)
Sondre Lerche: Acrobats (PLZ)