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.
Unknown Mortal Orchestra: IC-02 Bogotá (Jagjaguwar)
Deafheaven: Lonely People With Power (Roadrunner Records)
Vijay Iyer, Wadada Leo Smith: Defiant Life (ECM)
Perfume Genius: Glory (Matador Records)
Lucy Dacus: Forever Is A Feeling (Lucy Dacus/Geffen Records)
Snapped Ankles: Hard Times Furious Dancing (The Leaf label)
Butcher Brown: Letters From The Atlantic (Condord Jazz)
Destroyer: Dan’s Boogie (Merge Records)
DJ Python: i was put on this earth (XL Recordings)
Sam Akpro: Evenfall (Anti- Records)
Bugge Wesseltoft: Am Are (Jazzland recordings Norway)
Salin: Rammana (Salin)
Sasha Berliner: Fantôme (Outside In Music)
Joe Armon-Jones: All The Quiet (Part I) (Aquarii Records)
Dean Wareham: That’s the Price of Loving Me (Carpark Records)