Category: Trax

BLEACHED, Don’t You Think You’ve Had Enough? (Dead Oceans): *** Frontwoman Jennifer Clavin and...

HISS GOLDEN MESSENGER, Terms of Surrender (Merge): 3 “I’m a lonely swimmer a long, long way from...

MADISON CUNNINGHAM, Who Are You Now (Verve): 4  The Orange County-raised, LA-based...

BROOKLYN FUNK ESSENTIALS, Stay Good (Dorado): *** No longer based in New York, the international...

CAOIMHÍN Ó RAGHALLAIGH & THOMAS BARTLETT, Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh & Thomas Bartlett  (The...

DAYMÉ AROCENA, Sonocardiogram (Brownswood): **** The soulful Cuban jazz vocalist follow’s 2017’s...

JAZZMEIA HORN, Love Liberation (Concord): *** Rather than retrace socially conscious themes from...

LESLIE STEVENS, Sinner (Thirty Tigers): *** “I’m not your valedictorian/ Got no flux capacity, no...

BLUE MOON MARQUEE, Bare Knuckles & Brawn (Factor/Creative BC): ***½ A crisp showcase of the...

MAVIS STAPLES, We Get By (Anti): 3½ Among Staples’ most potent, cohesive albums, these 11 songs...

LISSIE, When I’m Alone: The Piano Retrospective (Lionboy/Cooking Vinyl): 3½ Simple piano-and-vocal...

MDOU MOCTAR, Ilana (The Creator) (Sahel Sounds): 4 Stars Guitar-centric albums like those that...

GLEN HANSARD, This Wild Willing (Anti): **** The Oscar-winning songwriter’s restlessness compels...

KINAN AZMEH, Uneven Sky (Dreyer Gaido): 4 stars Best known as part of cellist Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road...