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.
Earl Sweatshirt: Live Laugh Love (Warner Records)
Water From Your Eyes: It’s a Beautiful Place (Matador Records)
Linda May Han Oh, Tyshawn Sorey, Ambrose Akinmusire: Strange Heavens (Biophilia Records)
Laufey: A Matter of Time (AWAL)
Hand Habits: Blue Reminder (Fat Possum Records)
Pino Palladino, Blake Mills: That Wasn’t A Dream (UMG)
Dean Johnson: I Hope We Can Still Be Friends (Saddle Creek)
Jon Batiste: BIG MONEY (UMG)
Delicate Steve: Luke’s Garage (Have Fun Thinking)
Robert Glasper: Code Derivation (Concord Jazz)
Superchunk: Songs in the Key of Yikes (Merge Records)
The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die: Dreams of Being Dust (Epitaph)
Mac DeMarco: Guitar (Mac’s Record Label)
Scree: August (Ruination Record Co.)
Joep Beving: Solipsism Redux (Deutche Grammophon)
Blake Parker: Box Office Poison (Goodtalk)
Ami Taf Ra: The Prophet and The Madman (Brainfeeder)
Adrian Sherwood: The Collapse Of Everything (On-U Sound)
Ingebrigt Haker Flaten (Exit) Knarr: Drops (Sonic Transmissions Records)