The Needle Drop Selections

Sixteenth studio album from Australia's Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds. Skeleton Tree was recorded over a two year period as a follow-up to the band...

MAYA ARULPRAGASAM'S FINAL ALBUM? Together, with Diplo, she brought the anything-goes, genre-hybridized sound that had long been simmering on the un...

Angel Olsen’s 3rd full length album is is stunning. She dropped Burn Your Fire For No Witness in 2013, and stop if you are expecting something simi...

Call Me King Latifah. Vince Staples with that new-new. After slaying on 2015's Summertime '06, the Long Beach MC returns to Def Jam for more heat. ...

Is your money longer than a Nascar race? Young Thug… Rather, JEFFREY's money is, and damn, who else is capable of NOT showing up for a music video ...

A guitar, piano, and a harmonica plus Conor Oberst’s vocals… For his 7th solo effort, the Bright Eyes founder opts for a minimal, acoustic musical ...

Jeremy Bolm, Nick Steinhardt, Clayton Stevens, Tyler Kirby, and Elliot Babin are Touche Amore, a Burbank, California band noted for its urgent, imp...

Angel Olsen’s 3rd full length album is is stunning. She dropped Burn Your Fire For No Witness in 2013, and stop if you are expecting something sim...

Fourteenth studio album from New York experimental rockers Swans. Frontman Michael Gira has said that The Glowing Man would be the last album recor...

Car Seat Headrest's first proper studio album for Matador. The album comes after 12 previous releases (all self-released, not on label, or compilat...

Death Grips is in its own lane, and you’ll be hard pressed to find the sound—an aggressive, provocative mix of punk, industrial, noise, and rap—the...

Kendrick made a few TV appearances before and after the release of To Pimp a Butterly, and the then-unreleased tracks he chose to perform caused q...

Final album from legendary pop culture figure, David Bowie. Blackstar was recorded in 2014 and 2015 while Bowie was in the midst of an ongoing batt...

Much anticipated fourth album from Baroness. This is the first release from the Georgian sludge metal band following a serious bus accident in 2012...

With rave reviews already pouring in, Joanna Newsom’s fourth album (not on Spotify, still beefing) continues the avant garde songstress’ path on ...

The mighty return of FKA Twigs! Taliah Barnett (FKA Twigs) follows up her critically acclaimed debut LP1 with a 5 track EP titled M3LL155X (pronoun...

“Sleep and dream issues have followed me my whole life,” admits Chelsea Wolfe, and Abyss, the 2015 effort from the LA-based singer/songwriter, chal...

Limited edition pink marbled vinyl version. Unknown Mortal Orchestra return with their 3rd full length, delivering another dose of tripped-out psyc...

Second studio album from Alabama's Alabama Shakes. It's a soul and blues filled affair made by Southern freaks that are not afraid to let their fre...

The much-anticipated double album from Death Grips is finally here! On The Powers That B, the experimental rap group from Sacto combines the previo...

King Kendrick holds the throne. Gonna keep this short and sweet. This album is EVERYTHING Hip Hop should be in 2015. Conscious but not boring, styl...

If you're reading this, you've probably already listened to this tape a shitload of times, and now, you can do so on vinyl (and if you're reading t...

Second studio album from Rockville, Maryland's Father John Misty. I Love You, Honeybear finds the former Fleet Foxes drummer getting intensely pers...

Second studio album from Rockville, Maryland's Father John Misty. I Love You, Honeybear finds the former Fleet Foxes drummer getting intensely pers...

Is Brooklyn in the house? After killing it in the mixtape circuit, Brooklyn's own Joey BadaSS finally steps out with his official debut album, B4.D...

After 14 years, D'Angelo finally drops the surprise follow up to Voodoo... and it is well worth the wait! Black Messiah comes right when we needed...

Remember when Booker T and Goldust were a tag team? El-P and Killer Mike are back with Run the Jewels 2. With El-P’s killer production and Killer M...

There's nothing else like this. FKA Twigs continues her exploration of the outer edges of futuristic R&B with LP1. She moves in the decaying fr...

La Roux returns with a hot and humid second full-length album, just in time to be your late-summer soundtrack. Floating into a laid back, disco at...

Noise masters return to form. Swans was one of the only bands that was affiliated with the no wave scene that gracefully moved into the new decade ...

Merrill Garbus returns with the third full length for her tUnE-yArDs persona. She wowed critics and won audiences over with her first two albums an...

Ratking is wild, untameable! For a hip hop group coming out of New York they're definitely bringing something different. Where their peers might be...

'Lib and Gibbs full length collab debut! Freddie Gibbs describes Pinata best - "a gangster Blaxploitation film on wax" (or in this case, magnetic t...

Daniel Avery's music stands out from the crowd around him. In an era where underground dance producers are leaning towards hyper-rhythmic minimalis...

With each album Black Milk just keeps getting better and better. The Detroit rapper/producer has gained a loyal following with a hybrid style that ...

Darkside, the collaboration between Nicolas Jaar and multi-instrumentalist Dave Harrington, returns with their second full length. Psychic is a lan...

Oh you want this! You want this so bad! When "...Like Clockwork" first dropped it sold out so fast we couldn't get our hands on it. Fortunately the...

Seventh studio album from English space rock band Spiritualized. Sweet Heart, Sweet Light was originally recorded and mixed over the course of thre...

Random Access Memories is easily one of the most anticipated releases in recent memory, and Daft Punk deliver in aces on all the hype. For their lo...

Much-anticipated sequel to Ghost & Adrian Younge's critically acclaimed collab. Twelve Reasons To Die II picks up right where the 2013 original...

1981 Post Punk for 2013. The London four piece has been making waves around the world with their aggressive yet catchy tunes recalling your favorit...

Fourth studio album from Sweden's The Knife on deluxe triple vinyl! Shaking The Habitual is a bold departure from The Knife's previous efforts, ta...

The Bob Dylan comparisons become pretty obvious from the first moments of The Wild Hunt, the second album from Swedish folk musician Kristian Matss...

Gonjasufi's debut album The Sufi And A Killer on the highly respected Warp label repressed! Lab heads out there hardly need an introduction to his ...

Flying Lotus finally drops his much anticipated and heavily hyped third album on Warp! Cosmogramma raises the bar to outerspace heights and goes ab...

Here's a TTL tip: pick this up. Sweden's The Radio Dept. is slept on. This 2010 album sounds like it was recorded in the nineties at the height of ...