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.
Flying Lotus: ASH (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (Milan Records)
Japanese Breakfast: For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women) (Dead Oceans)
Lonnie Holley: Tonky (Jagjaguwar)
Peter Harris, Fritz Catlin, Lee “Scratch” Perry: Mercy (Dash the Henge)
De La Soul: The Grind Date (20th Anniversary Edition) (BMG)
Jefre Cantu-Ledesma: Gift Songs (Mexican Summer)
Lola Kirke: Trailblazer (One Riot Records)
Lee Ranaldo & Michael Vallera: Early New York Silver (Amish Records Required Wreckers)
K. Leimer: Proximate Forms (Palace of Lights)
Greentea Peng: TELL DEM IT’S SUNNY (AWAL)
Kassian: Channels (!K7 Records)
Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France, Ludwig Wicki: Howard Shore: Anthology – The Paris Concerts (Deutsche Grammophon)
Goya Gumbani: Warlord of the Weejuns (Ghostly International)
more eaze & claire rousay: no floor (Thrill Jockey)
No I.D., Saba: From The Private Collection of Saba and No ID (From The Private Collection, LLP)