The trio Tchotchke delivers a strong dose of art-pop that is of the current moment but touches on influences from the genre’s heyday, as Playin’ Dumb is far from ignorant. The NYC-based trio, comprising Anastasia Sanchez on vocals and drums, Eva Chambers on bass, piano, keyboards, and vocals, and Emily Tooraen on guitar and vocals, wrote and recorded the songs produced and engineered by The Lemon Twigs. Sonically, the album sounds vibrant with soaring vocals, deep bass, and crisp drums. There is also a lot of added instrumentation that moves these songs in unique directions behind the high-pitched singing of Sanchez, Chambers, and Tooraen.
Opener “The Game” is where the most experimentation occurs as Tchotchke…
You need to be logged in to view the rest of the content. Please Log In.
The eponymous debut of Oh Wonder came about in September 2014, when the songwriting team of Anthony West & Josephine Vander Gucht embarked on a goal to record and release a song per month for a year, culminating in a full-length album. What the duo didn’t foresee was accumulating millions of digital streams of their songs in the meantime, leading to a record deal with Republic Records and sold-out future tour dates before the album was completed or they’d ever set foot on a stage.
In just five years, Guatemalan cellist 
fixed
Nueva Timba is the sophomore Blue Note release by pianist and composer Harold López-Nussa. The first, 2023’s 
Chip Wickham has been a mainstay on London’s music scene since the late 1990s when he served as a producer and engineer to many influential EDM creators, but jazz has always been his passion. A world citizen, he lives between the U.K., Spain, and Qatar. Earlier in 2025 he was a co-billed, featured soloist with Neil Innes’ Lewis Express on the album Doo-Ha! and returns with The Eternal Now, his fifth long-player (he also issued the wonderful Love & Life EP in 2024) and his third release for Matthew Halsall’s Gondwana label. It’s lovingly titled after Don Cherry’s 1974 classic. Halsall, whose ties to Wickham date back to 2007, acts as co-producer alongside the leader. Most of the Love & Life band re-appears here: double bassist Simon “Sneaky” Houghton, drummer…
Fueled in part by the visual aesthetics of ’80s and ’90s Sports Illustrated, Leon Michels could have taken the ball and really run with it for 24 Hr Sports. Instead, the title is only a little more indicative of its contents than that of 
A dry mouth, sore muscles and a pounding headache led 
By the time they released 2025’s Moments, listeners knew what to expect from Cut Copy.
For their fourth 
What if the trip to Everest were not about the summit? Two springs ago, composer Patrik Berg Almkvisth journeyed through Nepal to the famed mountain, stopping at base camp. The journey was not what he expected; it began with a local funeral and ended with the sight of the sun rising over Everest. In the middle arrive intervals of wonder and joy, but also anger and disappointment. Despite the efforts of locals over time, trash litters the vast trail, a travesty transformed into sculpture by Leslie Leong, shown on the cover. Bodies remain unrecovered. Once-proud glaciers have receded. Might there still be room for revelation?
Two forces may be converging here. For years, Jerry Joseph & the Jackmorons fans have missed recorded versions of their favorite songs at live shows. Although in the liners, Joseph pointedly comments, “…we will never know…most people hate the studio versions of their favorite live songs.” Secondly, Joseph wants to maintain the momentum he garnered from his two successful solo albums, 2020’s Patterson Hood-produced 
There’s a clever brilliance to the title and cover art of 
…Newly remastered by Grammy winning engineer Michael Graves.
It’s been more than a decade since