James Reed pick: FRANK OCEAN, “Channel Orange”
The back story and hype nearly eclipsed the album itself. Just before he released his debut, Ocean posted online an open letter explaining that he had fallen in love with a man who didn’t return his feelings. It was refreshing, then, to realize the songs on “Channel Orange” packed just as much honesty and emotional heft, a spare collection of R&B and soul that bent the boundaries of those genres.
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- James Reed pick: FRANK OCEAN, “Channel Orange”
- James Reed pick: LORD HURON, “Lonesome Dreams”
- James Reed pick: FRANKIE ROSE, “Interstellar”
- James Reed pick: MESHELL NDEGEOCELLO, “Pour Une Âme Souveraine: A Dedication to Nina Simone”
- James Reed pick: LINDI ORTEGA, “Cigarettes & Truckstops”
- James Reed pick: ANGEL OLSEN, “Half Way Home”
- James Reed pick: LOS MÍTICOS DEL RITMO, “Los Míticos del Ritmo”
- James Reed pick: JESSIE WARE, “Devotion”
- James Reed pick: PERFUME GENIUS, “Put Your Back N 2 It”
- James Reed pick: DAYNA KURTZ, “American Standard”
- James Reed biggest surprise: NORAH JONES, “Little Broken Hearts”
- Sarah Rodman pick: THE AVETT BROTHERS, “The Carpenter”
- Sarah Rodman pick: FIONA APPLE, “The Idler Wheel . . . ”
- Sarah Rodman pick: JAMEY JOHNSON, “Living For a Song: A Tribute to Hank Cochran”
- Sarah Rodman pick: JACK WHITE, “Blunderbuss”
- Sarah Rodman pick: FRANK OCEAN, “Channel Orange”
- Sarah Rodman pick: The Gaslight Anthem, “Handwritten”
- Sarah Rodman pick: ALABAMA SHAKES, “Boys & Girls”
- Sarah Rodman pick: PINK, “The Truth About Love”
- Sarah Rodman pick: DR. JOHN, “Locked Down”
- Sarah Rodman pick: Ingrid Michaelson, “Human Again”
- Sarah Rodman biggest surprise: SINEAD O’CONNOR, “How About I Be Me (And You Be You)?”
- Michael Andor Brodeur pick: GRIMES, “Visions”
- Michael Andor Brodeur pick: DIIV, “Oshin”
- Michael Andor Brodeur pick: HOLY OTHER, “Held”
- Michael Andor Brodeur pick: ANDY STOTT, “Luxury Problems”
- Michael Andor Brodeur pick: FRANK OCEAN, “Channel Orange”
- Michael Andor Brodeur pick: JESSIE WARE, “Devotion”
- Michael Andor Brodeur pick: HOMEBOY SANDMAN, “First of a Living Breed”
- Michael Andor Brodeur pick: FIRST AID KIT, “The Lion’s Roar”
- Michael Andor Brodeur pick: DAPHNI, “JIAOLONG”
- Michael Andor Brodeur pick: LE1F, “Dark York”
- Michael Andor Brodeur biggest surprise: PRINCE RAMA, “Top Ten Hits of the End of the World”
- Martin Caballero pick: Death Grips, “The Money Tree”
- Martin Caballero pick: Ab-Soul, “Control System”
- Martin Caballero pick: Roc Marciano, “Reloaded”
- Martin Caballero pick: Kendrick Lamar, “Good Kid, M.A.A.D. City”
- Martin Caballero pick: Killer Mike, “R.A.P. Music”
- Martin Caballero pick: Nas, “Life Is Good”
- Martin Caballero pick: The Alchemist, “Russian Roulette”
- Martin Caballero pick: Action Bronson & Party SupplieS, “Blue Chips”
- Martin Caballero pick: Flying Lotus, “Until the Quiet Comes”
- Martin Caballero pick: El-P, “Cancer 4 Cure”
- Martin Caballero biggest surprise: WILL C, “Adieu or Die”
- Siddhartha Mitter pick: Céu, “Caravana Sereia Bloom”
- Siddhartha Mitter pick: Debo Band, “Debo Band”
- Siddhartha Mitter pick: Frank Ocean, “Channel Orange”
- Siddhartha Mitter pick: Gregory Porter, “Be Good”
- Siddhartha Mitter pick: Janka Nabay and the Bubu Gang, “En Yay Sah”
- Siddhartha Mitter pick: Just A Band, “Sorry for the Delay”
- Siddhartha Mitter pick: Neneh Cherry & The Thing, “The Cherry Thing”
- Siddhartha Mitter pick: Robert Glasper ExperiMENT, “Black Radio”
- Siddhartha Mitter pick: Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars, “Radio Salone”
- Siddhartha Mitter pick: Vijay Iyer Trio, “Accelerando”
- Siddhartha Mitter biggest surprise: Sasha go hard “Do You Know Who I Am” (mixtape)
- Jeremy Eichler pick: BRITTEN, BACH AND LIGETI: Works for Cello, Miklós Perényi, cello
- Jeremy Eichler pick: “FERNE GELIEBTE”: LIEDER, Christian Gerhaher, baritone; Gerold Huber, piano
- Jeremy Eichler pick: ELGAR AND CARTER: CELLO CONCERTOS, Alisa Weilerstein, cello; Daniel Barenboim, conductor
- Jeremy Eichler pick: LIGETI/BEETHOVEN: Works for piano, Jeremy Denk, piano
- Jeremy Eichler pick: THE DEBUSSY EDITION
- Jeremy Eichler pick: SCHUBERT: Works for Piano, Vol. 2, Paul Lewis, piano
- Jeremy Eichler pick: ESA-PEKKA SALONEN: “OUT OF NOWHERE,” Leila Josefowicz, violin; Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor
- Jeremy Eichler pick: MOZART: Piano Concertos, Kristian Bezuidenhout, forte-piano; Freiburg Baroque Orchestra
- Jeremy Eichler pick: MOZART: “LA FINTA GIARDINIERA,’” Freiburg Baroque Orchestra and soloists; René Jacobs, conductor
- Jeremy Eichler pick: BACH: “ST. MATTHEW PASSION,” Simon Rattle, conductor; Peter Sellars, ritualization; Berlin Philharmonic, vocal soloists, and Rundfunkchor Berlin
- Jeremy Eichler biggest surprise: “THE ART OF ROMAN TOTENBERG”
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