Phil Elverum’s songwriting enters purposefully rambly territory on Now Only, a worthy epilogue to last year’s A Crow Looked at Me.
Aaron Turner’s Sumac joins forces with legendary noise rock experimentalist Keiji Haino for an hour’s worth of mind-melting post-metal jams.
The Neighbourhood incorporates more elements of synthpop and alternative R&B on their self-titled album, which is about as drab as what came before it.
At nearly 50 years old as a band, Judas Priest has just released not only a late career highlight, but one of the greatest heavy metal albums of the decade.
Cocoa Sugar is one of Young Fathers’ milder releases.
X makes some improvements on the mixing, singing, and songwriting fronts with ?, but the album is still a mixed bag consisting mainly of half-baked song ideas.
As you might’ve gleaned from its title, Pop Music finds Remo Drive taking their sound in a poppier direction. The results are decent but brief.
Natalia Lafourcade and Los Macorinos explore the wide world of Latin American folk music with a generous tracklist of quality originals and creative revisions on Musas Vol. 2.
While not quite the grand artistic and social statement it was intended to be, American Utopia is brimming with forward-thinking pop and David Byrne’s unique persona.