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.
Chester Watson: Psychic Warfare Department (POW Recordings)
Mulatu Astatke: Mulatu Plays Mulatu (Strut)
Rauw Alejandro: Cosa Nuestra: Capítulo O (Sony Music)
Geese: Getting Killed (Partisan Records)
Cheikh Lô: Maame (World Circuit Ltd.)
Ibibio Sound Machine: Anyone Like You EP (Merge Records)
Night Tapes: portals//polarities (Nettwerk)
John Maus: Later Than You Think (Young)
Jeff Tweedy: Twilight Override (DBPM Records)
Jonny Greenwood: One Battle After Another (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (Nonesuch Records)
Cate le Bon: Michelangelo Dying (Mexican Summer)
Neko Case: Neon Grey Midnight Green (Anti- Records)
Pharoah Sanders: Rejoice (Evidence Music Inc./Evolution Ltd.)
David Bowie: I’m Deranged E.P. (Jones/Tintoretto Entertainment Co.)
Henry Threadgill: Listen Ship (Pi Recordings)