Today's Top Tune

If you are looking for Latin gospel, look no further than British producer and purveyor of Colombian sound Will “Quantic” Holland, who reunites with folkloric singer-songwriter Nidia Góngora for a bluesy spiritual romp on “Adorar la Sangre,” Spanish for “Worship Blood.”

This Thanksgiving Day, we have a lot to be grateful for: time with loved ones and good food to eat. After all that chow, we’ll need to get our bodies moving a little. Count on Owiny Sigoma Band to help you do so with their East African musical philosophies and electronic London sensibility on “Owiny Space.”

We love Spiritualized for the space rock project’s epic and anthemic sound. The new album “Everything Was Beautiful” is slated for release in early 2022, and sees Jason Pierce (a.k.a. J Spaceman) playing 16 different instruments and employing an additional 30 singers and musicians, which is curious for a man with a fondness for isolation. Let’s enjoy the grand sound of “Always Together With You.”

Los Angeles songwriter Shannon Lay gathers a sparse ensemble for a folky acoustic mix on her newly issued album, “Geist.” Layered and captivating, “A Thread To Find” brings to mind artists like Laura Marling.

Get ready to snap your fingers and put a spring in your step to Pokey LaFarge’s “Fine To Me” — he’s got a story to tell and we’re listening!

Let yourself be hypnotized by Lady Wray, purveyor of warmth and light on the song “Under The Sun.”

One of the finest songwriters of her generation, Aimee Mann has a new album out! An auteur gifted at embedding emotion into intellectual songs, “I See You” champions the lonely.

Just about a year ago, while under lockdown, London-based producer Lauren Duffus began to tinker with a trial version of Logic 3 to pass the time, and she hasn’t stopped making music since. While she prefers a more melancholic sound to channel loss and grief, the sorrowful “Soho Road (Crying Song)” transforms sobs into a cathartic, haunting composition.

A newly remastered deluxe 25th anniversary edition of R.E.M.’s tenth studio recording, “New Adventures in Hi-Fi,” has just been reissued, complete with B-sides and rarities. We’re excited to feature one of them, “New Test Leper,” as Today’s Top Tune.

If you’re a fan of the band, take a dive into Bent By Nature , the new podcast and digital archive about KCRW’s “SNAP!”, the pioneering ‘80s underground music show on which Michael Stipe and many of his peers were frequent guests.

While dissecting Joni Mitchell’s “My Old Man,” LA’s Bedouine realized how well the lyricist/songwriter is able to convey a mood. That inspiration was the fodder that lead to Bedouine’s song “The Solitude.”