Jack White’s Boarding House Reach is his most unorthodox stroke of genius since going solo.
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.
