Experimental music outfit Liars continue their foray into electronic music with a series of incredibly bold, heavy tech house fusions.
Famed dubstep producer Skrillex finally drops a full-length record.
Big Ups’ Eighteen Hours of Static combines numerous styles of underground rock music to create one of the most cutting, satirical rock records of this year. Think Minor Threat, Slint, D.R.I., and Dead Milkmen coming to a fantastic compromise on a collaborative album.
Synth pop outfit Future islands drops their most focused record yet, delivering one catchy, dramatically sung tune after another.
The new War On Drugs album is a winning combination of psychedelic rock, krautrock, folk, and Americana–just like the band’s last album, but better.
The latest EP from Evian Christ shows noticeable improvement in the rising star producer’s production chops.
Tycho makes the transition from hazy bedroom producer to what almost sounds like a full instrumental rock band on this latest record of his.
Indiana rapper Freddie “Gangsta” Gibbs teams up with legendary hip hop producer Madlib for one of the most essential hip hop albums of the year.
La Dispute comes through with a worthwhile followup to 2011’s Wildlife. While some of the stories aren’t as enthralling, the band’s minor alterations to their sound this time around makes this record worth checking out if you’ve been following them up until this point, or if
Pharrell’s latest full-length album has a few bright spots, but a great deal of it is a falsetto-led nightmare.
