New Reviews for January 17, 2025
Fat Possum Records
On their seventh album, Tamara Lindeman and company document the messiness of human nature with eloquence, compassion, and thrilling physicality.
Domino
The Colombian producer's expansive, cathartic second album emphasizes her way with words and emotive voice.
4AD
This remastered, limited-edition vinyl release celebrates the 30th anniversary of the Pixies frontman's grandly idiosyncratic second solo album.
Saddest Factory
The debut album from this Boygenius-produced U.K. artist splits the difference between indie folk and high-tension rock songs.
Heavenly Recordings
The second album by the Australian group is gloriously hard rocking and guitar forward while also showing off a more subtle, poppy side.
Transgressive
The Malian desert blues group explores its roots, primarily performing with traditional acoustic instruments.
Bella Union
The U.K. singer/songwriter examines love and all its wounds and angles on a more expansive sophomore LP that's still devastatingly raw.
Skep Wax Records
Timeless -- but not ageless -- indie pop from wiser, regret-stained perspectives marks the debut of a trio led by the Field Mice's Michael Hiscock.
In Memoriam
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- January 21, 2025
January 7, 1955
Recorded in 1955, this album features the original version of Barbarin's classic New Orleans anthem, "Bourbon Street Parade." Backing Barbarin is an earthy and swinging group of Crescent City regulars including a young trumpeter and future Preservation Hall member, the late-John Brunious. Although ripe with New Orleans traditions from blues to second line, this album never feels "trad".
Classical
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