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.
Tyler, The Creator: CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST (Columbia Records)
L’Rain: Fatigue (Mexican Summer)
Lucy Ducas: Home Video (Matador)
Spellling: The Turning Wheel (Sacred Bones)
Sault: Nine (Forever Living Originals)
Lightning Bug: A Color of the Sky (Fat Possum)
Faye Webster: I Know I’m Funny haha (Secretly Canadian)
Backxwash: I LIE HERE BURIED WITH MY RINGS AND MY DRESSES (UglyHag Records)
Pom Pom Squad: Death of a Cheerleader (City Slang US)
Karsten Hochapfel: UNS (MiRR)
Maple Glider: To Enjoy Is the Only Thing (Partisan Records)
Lightman Jarvis Ecstatic Band: Banned (Anti-)
Hypnotic Brass Ensemble: This is a Mindfulness Drill: A Reimagining of Richard Youngs’ ‘Sapphie’ (Jagjaguwar)
Daniel Avery: Together in Static (Mute)
Hiatus Kaiyote: Mood Valiant (Brainfeeder)
Ripatti: Fun is Not a Straight Line (Planet Mu)
Cedric Burnside: I Be Trying (Single Lock Records)
dal:um: similar & different (Glitterbeat)
Perlia: How Much Time it is Between You and Me? (Smalltown Supersound)
Lonelady: Former Things (Warp)