Music and Recording Reviews

Arne Jansen/Stephan Braun: Going Home; Joe Farnsworth: In What Direction Are You Headed?; Darcy James Argue's Secret Society: Dynamic Maximum Tension; Dave McMurray: Grateful Deadication 2.

Pit Pony: World to Me; Marc Ribot's Ceramic Dog: Connection; Duane Betts: Wild & Precious Life; Galen & Paul: Can We Do Tomorrow Another Day?

Beethoven: Triple Concerto; David Lang: Composition as Explanation; Yunchan Lim: Chopin Études; Urlicht: Songs of Death and Resurrection.

David Bowie: Rock'n'Roll Star; Joe Walsh: The Smoker You Drink, the Player You Get; Richard Thompson: Ship to Shore; Fantastic Cat: Now That's What I Call Fantastic Cat; Robert Hunter: Tales of the Great Rum Runners (Deluxe Edition); The Fabulous Thunderbirds: Struck Down; Oliver Wood: Fat Cat Silhouette.

Holst: The Planets & Cheetham Fraillon: Earth, Deborah Cheetham Fraillon, soprano; MSO Chorus; Melbourne Symphony Orchestra/Jaime Martín; Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto 3, Yunchan Lim, piano; Fort Worth Symphony/Marin Alsop; Mozart: 6 String Quintets on Historical Instruments, Spunicunifait; L'Extase: Debussy & Messiaen, Magdalena Kožená, mezzo-soprano; Mitsuko Uchida, piano.

Pulp: More; Lord Huron: The Cosmic Selector, Vol. 1; Craig Finn: Always Been.