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.
Big Thief: Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You (4AD)
Eiko Ishibashi: Drive My Car Original Soundtrack (with Bonus Tracks) (Newhere Music)
Empath: Visitor (Fat Possum)
Shamir: Heterosexuality (AntiFragile)
Orville Peck: Bronco: Chapter 1 (Columbia)
Trupa Trupa: B FLAT A (Glitterbeat)
Jazmine Sullivan: Heaux Tales, Mp’ Tales: The Deluxe (RCA)
Fort Romeau: Beings of Light (Ghostly International)
Author & Punisher: KRÜLLER (Relapse)
Silicon Scally: Field Lines (Central Processing Unit)
Ethan Iverson: Every Note Is True (Blue Note)
Kit Downes: Vermillion (ECM)
Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio: Cold As Weiss (Colemine)
James Newton: Flute Music (Morning Trip)
Nina Simone: Feeling Good: Her Greatest Hits And Remixes (Verve)