Tis the season for year-end best-of lists, and The Record Exchange is pleased to bring you our 2016 Staff Picks!
Here’s Rachel’s picks:
JOHN CARPENTER
Lost Themes II
THE MYSTERY LIGHTS
The Mystery Lights
TOUCHE AMORE
Stage Four
PUP
The Dream Is Over
OATHBREAKER
Rheia
KYLE DIXON AND MICHAEL STEIN
Stranger Things Vols. 1 & 2
LUST FOR YOUTH
Compassion
SUBROSA
For This We Fought The Battle Of Ages
XIU XIU
Plays The Music Of Twin Peaks
WRAY
Hypatia
1. Idaho Ho Ho Vol. 7, Various Artists
2. Blue and Lonesome, Rolling Stones
3. You Want It Darker, Leonard Cohen
4. Hardwired … To Self-Destruct, Metallica
5. Cleopatra, The Lumineers
6. Eponym, SFM-Steve Fulton Music
7. We Got It From Here … Thank You 4 Your Service, A Tribe Called Quest
8. 22, A Million, Bon Iver
9. Day Breaks, Norah Jones
10. Sea Change, Beck
Here’s a quick look at the bright and shiny new releases this week at The Record Exchange:
CD
Neil Young – Peace Trail
J. Cole – 4 Your Eyez Only
Atmosphere – Frida Kahlo vs. Ezra Pound
Tech N9ne – The Storm (deluxe edition available)
Sun Ra – Singles
The Last Shadow Puppets – Dream Synopsis
Gord Downie – Secret Path
Keith Hudson – Pick a Dub
Various Artists – Sing Soundtrack
VINYL
Leonard Cohen – You Want It Darker
Solange – A Seat at the Table
Tom Petty – The Studio Album Vinyl Collection
Frank Zappa – Various Reissues
Sun Ra – Singles
Nick Cave and Warren Ellis – Hell or High Water Soundtrack
Isis – Oceanic: Remixes and Reinterpretations
Rae Sremmurd – Sremmlife 2
Onerepublic – Oh My My
The Last Shadow Puppets – Dream Synopsis
Mac Miller – The Divine Feminine
Black Grape – It’s Great When You’re Straight…Yeah
They Might Be Giants – Phone Power
Napalm Death – Scum
John Fahey – Christmas with John Fahey Vol. II
Nouvelle Vague – I Could Be Happy
Senses Fail – Let It Enfold You
Senses Fail – Still Searching
Gucci Mane – Everybody Looking
Keith Hudson – Pick a Dub
Panopticon and Waldgeflüster – Split
DJ Snake – Encore
CASSETTE
You Blew It – Abendrot
Tis the season for year-end best-of lists, and The Record Exchange is pleased to bring you our 2016 Staff Picks!
Here’s Ian’s picks:
DAVID BOWIE
Blackstar
DANNY BROWN
Atrocity Exhibition
RADIOHEAD
A Moon Shaped Pool
DEATH GRIPS
Bottomless Pit
BEYONCE
Lemonade
SCOTT WALKER
The Childhood Of A Leader Soundtrack
EXPLODED VIEW
Exploded View
BRIAN ENO
The Ship
TIM HECKER
Love Streams
PARQUET COURTS
Human Performance
Tis the season for year-end best-of lists, and The Record Exchange is pleased to bring you our 2016 Staff Picks!
Here’s Catherine’s picks:
DAVID BOWIE
Blackstar
NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS
Skeleton Tree
THOMAS PAUL
Singalongs
THE JAYHAWKS
Paging Mr. Proust
PARQUET COURTS
Human Performance
SFM-STEVE FULTON MUSIC
Eponym
KARL BLAU
Introducing Karl Blau
LEONARD COHEN
You Want It Darker
HOPE SANDOVAL AND THE WARM INVENTIONS
Until The Hunter
JESSE DAYTON
The Revealer