VAMPIRE WEEKEND ONLY GOD WAS ABOVE US - COLUMBIA CD/LP

As much as the album embraces the past, it’s also about how hard it is to really get your arms around it. The band’s first album was jubilant: young men in boat shoes encountering a world of privilege, enjoying its spoils with a crooked eye. On Contra, they were even more suspicious of the world of excess, wondering what it was all for. By Modern Vampires of the City, Koenig had moved on from mere materiality and wanted to get to the bottom of everything. And, after some time away from such heavy and heady questions, he returned as a proud Grateful Deaddisciple, jamming about the Earth and love on Father of the Bride. Here, he asks, “Now is it strange I can’t connect?” He and his bandmates answer the question musically, suggesting that you can come close, but you can’t ever go back. - PITCHFORK

THE BLACK KEYS OHIO PLAYERS - NONESUCH CD/LP

In many ways, Ohio Players imagines what the Keys might have sounded like had they been born into the eclectic mid- to late-Nineties that Beck ruled rather than the minimalist rock-is-back early-2000s. It was a period when every genre — indie rock, hip-hop, trip-hop, rave, and exotica — melted into mellow gold. That era isn’t as mythic as the Mississippi Delta or a weed-fogged Seventies arena show. But it’s a little closer to Auerbach and Carney’s lived experience, and on Ohio Players, they’re at home in every groove. - ROLLING STONE

KHRUANGBIN A LA SALA - DEAD OCEANS CD/LP/CASSETTE

To cover new territory, it helps to be grounded too, and there’s a healthy foundation on ‘A La Sala’. Each song is appropriately seasoned with dubby beats, field recordings, hooky guitar riffs and basslines, all distinct enough to pique your attention but never dominating space. The run from ‘Pon Pón’, ‘Todavía Viva’ and ‘Juegos y Nubes’ are led by Mark Speer’s nifty guitar playing; Laura Lee’s vocals and harmonies provide a something of an anchor on ‘Hold Me Up (Thank You)’; Donald ‘DJ’ Johnson’s drumming never peaks or flails, such is the design of soundscape he operates in. It’s a band in perfect sync once again. - NME

ABBA WATERLOO [50TH ANNIVERSARY) LP

TERRY ALLEN GONNA CALIFORNIA 7”

ANIMAL COLLECTIVE PROSPECT HUMMER LP

B.T. EXPRESS DO IT 'TIL YOU'RE SATISFIED LP

BARTEES STRANGE MAGIC BOY (COLV) LP

BAYONETTA - O.S.T. LP

THE BLACK KEYS OHIO PLAYERS CD/LP

BOCHUM WELT MODULE 2 LP

BRANDT BRAUER FRICK MR. MACHINE (CVNL) LP

ALINA BZHEZHINSKA ALTERA VITA LP

CALEXICO FEAST OF WIRE LP

COIL MOON'S MILK CD

VARIOUS ARTISTS CONGO FUNK CD/LP

GRACE CUMMINGS RAMONA (COLV) LP

CELINE DION MY LOVE ESSENTIAL COLLECTION LP

DRAHLA ANGELTAPE - OBSIDIAN LP

VARIOUS ARTISTS ECCENTRIC SOUL: CONSOLIDATED PRODUCTIONS VOL. 1 LP

FOREIGN CORRESPONDENCE LOVIN' YOU AIN'T EASY 7”

FUCKED UP BEING ANNOYING 7”

FYEAR FYEAR LP

GARBAGE BLEED LIKE ME LP

JERRY GARCIA ALMOST ACOUSTIC LP

JERRY GARCIA RAGGED BUT RIGHT LP

CONAN GRAY FOUND HEAVEN LP

KIM HYUN-CHUL SUNSET INTO THE NEON LIGHTS O.S.T. LP

IRON MONKEY SPLEEN AND GOAD LP

ARUSHI JAIN DELIGHT LP

JOSE JAMES 1978 LP

BILLY JOEL 52ND STREET LP

BILLY JOEL COLD SPRING HARBOR LP

BILLY JOEL LIVE AT THE GREAT AMERICAN MUSIC HALL LP

BILLY JOEL SONGS IN THE ATTIC LP

BILLY JOEL STREETLIFE SERENADE LP

BILLY JOEL TURNSTILES LP

JOKERS WILD STEP OUTSIDE YOUR MIND LP

PETE JOLLY SEASONS LP

JORDANA SUMMER'S OVER LP

DUSTIN KENSRUE DESERT DREAMING LP

KHRUANGBIN A LA SALA CD/LP/CASSETTE

MARCUS KING MOOD SWINGS LP

THE LAFAYETTE AFRO-ROCK BAND MALIK (BLUE) LP

THE LAFAYETTE AFRO-ROCK BAND SOUL MAKOSSA (BLUE) LP

LCD SOUNDSYSTEM POW POW 12"

LIBERTINES ALL QUIET ON THE EASTERN ESPLANADE LP

LO MOON I WISH YOU WAY MORE LUCK LP

MOUNT KIMBIE SUNSET VIOLENT (COLV) LP

THOMAS NEWMAN SPECTRE O.S.T. LP

OLD 97'S AMERICAN PRIMITIVE LP

PALACE ULTRASOUND LP

FABIANA PALLADINO FABIANA PALLADINO LP

PERNICE BROTHERS WHO WILL YOU BELIEVE LP

PHOSPHORESCENT REVELATOR LP

POLYPHIA REMEMBER THAT YOU WILL DIE LP

RAIL BAND RAIL BAND (BLUE) LP

VARIOUS ARTISTS REACH LP

RUNNNER STARSDUST LP

JAMES RUSHFORD TURZETS LP

ALICE RUSSELL I AM (BLK) (COLV) LP

SANDY SALISBURY MELLOW AS SUNSHINE LP

SHEILA E. BAILAR LP

HORACE SILVER SILVER'S SERENADE LP

SINKANE WE BELONG (COLV) LP

ELLIOT SMITH EITHER / OR (MAROON) LP

SOUL GLO SONGS TO YEET AT THE SUN LP

AKI TAKASE TRIO SONG FOR HOPE LP

KOHEI TANAKA ONE PIECE MOVIES LP

KOHEI TANAKA ONE PIECE STAMPEDE LP

THY CATAFALQUE TUNO IDO TARLAT LP

TOSCA NO HASSLE (DLX) LP

VAMPIRE WEEKEND ONLY GOD WAS ABOVE US CD/LP

WEEP WAVE SPECK CD/LP

ANDY WILLIAMS LIFE TIME LP

LATE ADDITIONS…

BEVIS FROND FOCUS ON NATURE CD

BJORK BASTARDS LP

JOHNNY BLAS SALSA PARA TI LP

CHARLI XCX CRASH LP

GENE CLARK NO OTHER SESSIONS LP

THE DANDY WARHOLS ROCKMAKER CD

DJ NU-MARK CREME DE LA CRATE LP

DUSTER 1975 LP

FAT PRODUCE STICKY BEETS 7”

JUN IIDA EVERGREEN LP

MESTIZO BEAT SHE'S A ROSE 7”

PAPER TIGER ALL OVER THE PLACE LP

PINK SIIFU & REAL BAD MAN REAL BAD FLIGHT LP

PROFESSOR CREEP 32 BIT BREAKS CASSETTE

REJOICER WHILE YOU ARE THERE LP

ALICE RUSSELL I AM CASSETTE

TAME ONE & PARALLEL THOUGHT ACID TAB VOCAB LP

THIRD MIND THIRD MIND 2 CD

TIBBS LIES 7”

TOMBERLIN I DONT KNOW WHO NEEDS TO HEAR THIS LP

VELELEAP VELELLA VELELLA LEAP LP

LILLIE WEST IF I WERE A REAL MAN… CASSETTE

YERAZ PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE ARMENIAN SOUNDS LP