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.
Bruce Springsteen: Land Of Hope & Dreams (Columbia Records)
Porches: Scrap and Love Songs Revisited (Porches)
Agnes Giebel, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Berliner Philharmoniker, Günther Weissenborn: Handel: Apollo e Dafne, HWV 122 (Deutsche Grammophon)
Reyna Tropical: Malegría en la Oscuridad (Psychic Hotline)
Boldy James, Your Boy Posca: Magnolia Leflore (Near Mint)
Stereolab: Instant Holograms On Metal Film (Warp Records)
Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru: Church of Kidane Mehret (Mississippi Records)
Smerz: Big city life (Escho)
These New Puritans: Crooked Wing (Domino Recording Co.)
Matthew Evan Taylor, Rajna Swaminathan, Ganavya, Metropolis Ensemble, Andrew Cyr, Rajas, Utsav Lal: Life Returns (Navona Records)
Ganavya: Nilam (LEITER)
Eddie Palmieri: A Contraluz (Diablo Music/World Wide Waves)
Chris Cheek, Bill Frisell, Tony Scherr, Rudy Royston: Keepers of the Eastern Door (Analog Tone Factory)
Marc Ribot: Map of a Blue City (New West Records)
Pan Amsterdam, Leron Thomas: Confines (Heavenly Records)
Mike Cooper: Eternal Equinox (Room 40)
Maja S.K. Ratkje, Torstein Slåen, Sigurd Ytre-Arne: The Swamp (Bislet Beats)
Shamir: Ten (Kill Rock Stars)