75 Pop and Jazz Albums, Reveals and Celebrations Coming This Fall

CAVETOWN The bed room pop singer-songwriter Robin Skinner has actually gotten an impassioned online following with fragile tracks about teen life including titles like “I Miss My Mum” and “I’ll Make Cereal.” On his brand-new release, “Worm Food,” he mixes the curdled angst and alert hooks of ’90s pop-punk (one track wish for 1994, a year Skinner was not yet alive) with controlled synth pop. He blogs about the particular pains of a brand-new relationship: “Laundry day, going to diminish your shirt/makes a best suitable for me,” he coos over lilting strings on “Laundry Day.” On another, he compares himself to a “ball of wasabi” — “there to keep things intriguing, however no one desires me.” It’s a captivating picture of distressed love. (Nov. 4; Cavern Music Limited/Sire) — Blum

BILLY JOEL Prior to Billy Joel dominated Madison Square Garden with a continuous month-to-month residency and played the last-ever shows at Shea Arena, he headlined another of New york city’s nonreligious temples, the initial Yankee Arena, for 2 nights in June 1990. A remixed, re-edited and freshly broadened variation of “Live at Yankee Arena,” the performance movie recording those mega-gigs, will quickly see release on Blu-ray, with the audio variation coming out digitally, and on CD and LP sets. The hit-parade set list (consisting of “My Life,” “Prosperous Woman,” “New York City Mindset,” “Piano Male” and the then-recent No. 1 “We Didn’t Start the Fire”) doesn’ t vary much from the one you’ll hear Joel dip into the Garden today, more than thirty years later on — the mark of a real pop organization. (Nov. 4; Columbia/Legacy) — Shteamer

PHOENIX The French band whose bubbly 2009 indie-pop crossover struck “Lisztomania” got back at a college AOC. dancing with desert is back with “Alpha Zulu,” its very first LP in 5 years. In part a meditation on loss — consisting of that of its manufacturer Philippe Zdar, who passed away in a mishap in 2019 at age 52 — the album, marking Phoenix’s 25th anniversary as a group, consists of a look by Ezra Koenig of Vampire Weekend. (Nov. 4; Glassnote/Loyaute Music) — Sisario

JULIE BENKO & JASON YEAGER If you followed the backstage drama at Broadway’s “Amusing Woman,” you understand that Julie Benko is the bright-eyed, dulcet-voiced soprano who went from standby to star after Beanie Feldstein’s departure. On Nov. 7, Benko and her spouse, allure pianist Jason Yeager, will carry out choices from their brand-new album, “Hand in Hand,” which blends program tunes and requirements with Janis Joplin’s “Mercedes Benz” and Yeager originals at 54 Below. Other artists slated to go to “Broadway’s living-room” consist of the unsinkable nonagenarian Marilyn Maye (Oct. 12-15, Oct. 18-22), the phase and screen veteran Leslie Uggams (Nov. 10-12) and the most recent gem in the club’s “Diamond Series,” Vanessa Williams (Dec. 13-18), followed by the withstanding gem Patti LuPone (Dec. 20-30). Fans of a specific Sara Bareilles musical can eagerly anticipate “Sugar, Butter, Reunion: Commemorating the Jennas of ‘Waitress’” on Oct. 9, and the brand-new musical “Sean’s Story,” an Ars Nova commission by Khiyon Hursey, will be showcased in performance Oct. 11th. — Gardner

PATRICIA BRENNAN Allure world can get stuck in a fight in between the head and the heart, however seldom do you discover an improviser like Patricia Brennan, the Veracruz, Mexico-born vibraphonist, marimba gamer and results maven, who skirts that dichotomy nearly totally. Her music appears to exist in a world outside the body, however remains packed with sensation. “More Touch” is the follow-up to Brennan’s spellbinding launching, the solo LP “Maquishti,” and it presents a brand-new quartet of innovative balanced thinkers: the drummer Marcus Gilmore, the percussionist Mauricio Herrera and the bassist Kim Cass. They venture in between dreamy swing, bobbing bolero, the Afro-Caribbean rhythms of Brennan’s home town, and leisure time. (Nov. 11; Pyroclastic) — Russonello