New Music
April 2025

Classical
Duets: 30th Anniversary
Andrea Bocelli 
CD CLA BOC 
 
Marking his 30th anniversary, beloved tenor Andrea Bocelli, the most celebrated classical singer in modern history, celebrates his iconic career. This new career-spanning collection features songs with Ed Sheeran, Luciano Pavarotti, Celine Dion, Matteo Bocelli, Stevie Wonder, Jennifer Lopez, Dua Lipa, Lang Lang, Georgia and Cecilia Bartoli, alongside brand-new superstar collaborations.
Chopin Etudes
Yunchan Lim 
CD CLA CHO 
 
Last year, the then 18-year-old South Korean pianist Yunchan Lim "stunned the music world" (The New York Times) by becoming the youngest winner of the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in Texas. Yunchan's final performance of Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 3 not only moved the conductor on stage to tears, but critics also praised the astonishing interpretation, saying he was an "instant sensation" and "a star is born" (The New York Times). Now Yunchan Lim presents his first studio album on Decca Classics: the Chopin Etudes op. 10 and op. 25.
Country & Western
Welcome To The Plains
Wyatt Flores 
CD C&W FLO 
 
The debut album from Wyatt Flores. Across its fourteen epic tracks, Wyatt writes about home, happiness, family and the place that raised him, Stillwater, Oklahoma. The album is happy on one side and heartbreak on the other. Its powerful storytelling and tight musicianship create a classic album for the ages that is a true front to back experience
Jubilee
Old Crow Medicine Show 
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As multiple Grammy-winners, Old Crow Medicine Show celebrates their 25th anniversary. Their new album, Jubilee, finds the band producing alongside Matt Ross-Spang (Jason Isbell, St. Paul & The Broken Bones). The record features a return cameo from OCMS co-founder Willie Watson as well as appearances from legend Mavis Staples and rising star Sierra Ferrell. The result encompasses everything from jug-band tunes to Irish folk songs to exultant gospel jams. 
Look up 
Ringo Starr
CD C&W STA 
 
Ringo Starr releases a brand-new country music album, produced and co-written by T Bone Burnett via Lost Highway Records. This stunning collection features 11 original songs, recorded this year in Nashville and Los Angeles. This album features Billy Strings, Molly Tuttle, Lucius, Larkin Poe, and Alison Krauss
 
Folk
Blue Heron Suite
Sarah Jarosz
CD FOL JAR 
 
Sarah Jarosz's Blue Heron Suite is a song cycle she composed after being the recipient of the Fresh Grass Composition Commission. Recorded in 2018 at Reservoir Studios in New York City, Jarosz is joined on the album by Jeff Picker on bass and Jefferson Hamer on guitar and harmony vocals.
Jazz
Beethoven Blues
Jon Batiste 
CD JAZ BAT 
 
5x Grammy® and Oscar® winner Jon Batiste returns with a pure piano album, Beethoven Blues (Batiste Piano Series, Vol. 1). Reimagining the transcendent works of Ludwig van Beethoven alongside original compositions inspired by Batiste's youth competing in local piano competitions and gigging in the heart of New Orleans, the album extends timeless classics across the genre spectrum.
 
 
Popular
The High Road
Kane Brown
CD POP BRO 
 
The High Road is the fourth studio album by American singer Kane Brown. It was released January 24, 2025, via RCA Records Nashville. The album contains the singles "I Can Feel It", "Miles on It", and "Backseat Driver".
Love & Hyperbole
Alessia Cara 
CD POP CAR 
 
Grammy Award-winning Canadian pop star Alessia Cara releases her fourth studio album. Alessia has amassed over 12.5 billion streams across her career and has also secured the #1 spot at U.S. Pop Radio across three different singles!
 
2014 Forest Hills Drive
J. Cole 
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J. Cole's third studio album, 2014 Forest Hills Drive, topped the U.S. album chart when it was released in 2014 and has been certified 3x platinum. It features the singles "Apparently," "Wet Dreamz," and "No Role Modelz."
Songs Of A Lost World
The Cure 
CD POP CUR 
 
After sixteen years, The Cure is back with their fourteenth studio album. Songs from the record were previewed during their 90-date, 33-country 'Shows Of A Lost World' tour for more than 1.3 million people to overwhelming fan and critical acclaim. Speaking about, "Alone," the opening track on the album, Robert Smith says, "It's the track that unlocked the record; as soon as we had that piece of music recorded, I knew it was the opening song and I felt the whole album come into focus -- that was the moment when I knew the song -- and the album -- were real."
Temporary
Everything Is Recorded 
CD POP EVE 
 
Everything Is Recorded albums are feasts of collaboration, and this soul-enriching new album is no exception. The guest list overflows with talent: Florence Welch, Sampha, Bill Callahan, Jah Wobble, Kamasi Washington, Nourished by Time, Alabaster DePlume, Noah Cyrus. The silvery thread linking all these voices together is, of course, Richard Russell himself, by design the least visible member of Everything Is Recorded. Russell began recording his collaborators' musings on death and loss early on in the process for this album, and although they only survive in two audio collages ("October," "The Summons"), their power suffuses the record. These are the most luminous and relaxed compositions of his career. His music dissolves the borders between sampled and recorded, between modernity and antiquity, life and death, now and forever. He grasps the true meaning of his album's title: We may be, in fact, temporary. But our longing for each other, for peace, for love and communion, goes on forever.
Small Changes
Michael Kiwanuka
CD POP KIW
 
The eagerly anticipated follow-up to Michael's eponymous third LP, the Mercury Prize-winning and Grammy Award-nominated, Kiwanuka. This album was produced alongside Danger Mouse and Inflo, the team behind the globally acclaimed Kiwanuka and its equally acclaimed predecessor, Love & Hate, and reaffirms his status as one of the defining singer-songwriters of his generation.
GNX
Kendrick Lamar 
CD POP LAM 
 
GNX is the sixth studio album by American rapper Kendrick Lamar. It was surprise released on November 22, 2024, through PGLang and Interscope Records. The album features many guest appearances from artists SZA, Dody6, and many more. 
From Zero
Linkin Park 
CD POP LIN 
 
Linkin Park is one of the most innovative and well known rock bands today. Having debuted their first album, Hybrid Theory, in 2000, their success has only grown from there. Linkin Park has sold more than 70 million records worldwide and has won two Grammy Awards. What makes Linkin Park such an influential band for our time is that they explore multiple genres from album to album. Having kicked off their career with Hybrid Theory being on the heavy rock side, they then went on to practice layering with electronic music, then continued on creating a new album going back to their heavy rock, and ultimately experimented with a more pop oriented record, which being One More Light
 
 
So Close To What
Tate McRae 
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So Close to What is the third studio album by Canadian singer Tate McRae, released on February 21, 2025, through RCA Records. She co-wrote it with several collaborators, including the producers Ryan Tedder, Blake Slatkin, Lostboy, Emile Haynie, Ilya, and Rob Bisel.
Balloonerism
Mac Miller 
CD POP MIL 
 
Balloonerism is the seventh studio album by American rapper Mac Miller. It is his second posthumous album since his death in September 2018. Miller recorded the album in 2014, around the time his mixtape Faces was released.
Relentless
The Pretenders 
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The Pretenders return with their fourteenth studio album, due for release on September 1st. Arriving with the impulsiveness and attitude that at once defines the band's eternal spirit, Relentless is a clearly defined snapshot of where The Pretenders are in 2023. This is the second consecutive Pretenders album to be written as a collaboration between Chrissie Hynde and the band's resident guitar hero, James Walbourne.
End Will Show Us How
Tremonti
CD POP TRE 
 
The End Will Show Us How is the sixth studio album by American heavy metal band Tremonti. It was released on January 10, 2025 through Napalm Records. The record was produced by Michael "Elvis" Baskette, who Mark Tremonti had worked with since 2007.
Show
A Complete Unknown
Original Movie Picture Soundtrack 
CD SHO COM 
 
A Complete Unknown is the soundtrack album to the Bob Dylan biopic of the same name. The album consists primarily of songs written by Dylan himself and performed by Timothée Chalamet, who portrays Dylan in the film.
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