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.
Horse Lords: Comradely Objects (RVNG Intl.)
Wet Leg: Wet Leg (Domino Recording Co.)
Black Midi: Hellfire (Rough Trade)
Dry Cleaning: Stumpwork (4AD)
Weyes Blood: And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow (Sub Pop)
Julia Jacklin: Pre Pleasure (Polyvinyl)
Aldous Harding: Warm Chris (4AD)
Tove Lo: Dirt Femme (Pretty Swede)
Guerilla Toss: Famously Alive (Sub Pop)
Chat Pile: God’s Country (The Flenser)
Drake: Honestly, Nevermind (Republic Records)
Kendrick Lamar: Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers (Aftermath/Interscope)
Big Thief: Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You (4AD)
The Comet is Coming: Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam (Verve)
DOMi & JD BECK: NOT TiGHT (Blue Note Records)
Moor Mother: Jazz Codes (Anti-)
Mary Halvorson: Amaryllis/Belladonna (Nonesuch)
Shabaka: Afrikan Culture (Verve)
Makaya McCraven: In These Times (International Anthem)
Show Me the Body: Trouble the Water (Loma Vista)
Alvvays: Blue Rev (Polyvinyl)
Sudan Archives: Natural Brown Prom Queen (Stones Throw)
Special Interest: Endure (Rough Trade)
Horsegirl: Versions of Modern Performance (Matador)
Kal Marks: My Name is Hell (Exploding in Sound)
Ezra Furman: All of Us Flames (Anti-)
Mamalarky: Pocket Fantasy (Fire Talk)
Sweet Pill: Where the Heart Is (Sweet Pill)
Fievel is Glauque: Flaming Swords (MATH Interactive)
Jockstrap: I Love You Jennifer B (Rough Trade)
Billy Woods: Aethiopes (Backwoodz Studioz)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Cool It Down (Secretly Canadian)
Moin: Paste (AD93)
Barbie Bertisch: Prelude (Love Injection)
Open Mike Eagle: Component System with the Auto Reverse (Auto Reverse)
Charli XCX: Crash (Asylum/Warner Music Group)