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.
Seiji Ozawa: Tchaikovsky, Bizet, Ravel, Stravinsky, Lalo (Parlophone Records)
McCoy Tyner, Joe Henderson, Henry Grimes Jack DeJohnette: Forces of Nature: Live at Slugs’ (UMG)
Father John Misty: Mahashmashana (Sub Pop Records)
Papa M: Ballads of Harry Houdini (Drag City Records)
Kim Deal: Nobody Loves You More (4AD)
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith & Joe Goddard: Neptunes EP (Smuggler’s Way)
Michael Kiwanuka: Small Changes (UMG)
Aphex Twin: Blackbox Life Recorder 21f / in a room7 F760 (Warp Records)
Bibio: PHANTOM BRICKWORKS (LP II) (Warp Records)
Jhené Aiko: The Magic Hour Collection (UMG)
David Oistrakh, Sviatoslav Knushevitsky, Lev Oborin: Beethoven: Piano Trio No. 7, Op. 97 “Archduke” – Schubert: Piano Trio No. 1, D. 898 & Octet in F Major, D. 803 (Parlophone Records)
Damu The Fudgemunk: Peace of Action (Def Pressé)
Johan Lindvall Trio: End (Jazz Recordings Norway)
Simon Joyner: Coyote Butterfly (BB*ISLAND)
The Coward Brothers: The Coward Brother (New West Records)