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.
Los Pleneros de la Cresta: Puerto Rico abraza al mundo (Pleneros de la Cresta)
Adrian Younge, Ali Shaheed Muhammad: The Midnight Hour: Lost Tapes JID028 (Jazz Is Dead)
Orchestra Baobab: Made In Senegal (Strut)
Michael Kiwanuka: FUDGE (UMG)
James Brandon Lewis / Red Lily: Calling Antonin (TAO Forms)
Shabazz Palace: It’s a Style Sport (Sub Pop Records)
Anderson .Paak, Cordae: Heavy Is The Crown (Apeshit + Hi Level + Empire)
Hildur Guðnadóttir, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchestra Berlin: There Will Be Us (Deutsche Grammophon)
The Olivia Tremor Control: The Same Place (Elephant 6 Recording Company)
Telemakus: Eight Ring Revival (Good Problem Studios)
Bow and Arrow: Bow and Arrow (NNA Tapes)
aus: mere meer (Squama)
Caroline Rose: Gentling the Horse at the Walt Whitman Mall (Suck Records)
Sour Widows: Sigil (Julia’s War Recordings)
Oren Ambarchi: Prophetic Perfect Tense (Kou Records)
Civilistjävel!: Älvgång (Six of Swords)