#NewMusicFriday: January 19, 2024

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.

Sleater-Kinney: Little Rope (Loma Vista Recordings)

PACKS: Melt the Honey (Fire Talk)

Glass Beach: plastic death (Run for Cover Records)

John Zorn: The Hermetic Organ Volume 11— for Terry Riley (Tzadik)

潘PAN: Reborn (Transgressive Records)

Chemtrails: The Joy of Sects (PNKSLM Recordings)

Oliver Patrice Weder: The Shoe Factory (Moderna Records)

Gidon Kremer, Kremerata Baltica, Vida Miknevičiūtė: Songs of Fate (ECM)

Santtu-Matias Rouvali, Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra: Sibelius: Symphony No. 4 – The Wood Nymph – Valse Triste (Outhere Music)

Ruby Hughes – Manchester Collective: End of My Days (BIS Records)

Mary Halvorson: Cloudward (Nonesuch Records)

Brittney Spencer: My Stupid Life (Elektra Records)

Yin Yin: Mount Matsu (Glitterbeat Records)

JB Dunckel: Paranormal Musicality (Warner Classics)

Lizzie No: Halfsies (Thirty Tigers)