Angels & Airwaves
Lifeforms
DeLonge amps up the guitars and punk energy on Angels & Airwaves sixth album.
Arab Strap
As Days Get Dark
On their first album in 16 years, this legendarily bleak Glasgow duo turn in a set of viscerally powerful songs that rank among their best.
Chvrches
Screen Violence
The trio’s fourth album taps into everything that makes them so special among the legions of bands reinventing synth pop in the 2020s.
Danny Elfman
Big Mess
37 years and over 100 film scores after his last solo outing, the former Oingo Boingo frontman offers up a seething, cathartic pandemic album.
Dinosaur Jr.
Sweep It Into Space
The 12th studio album from this slacker pop institution includes some of the catchiest and most immediate songs since their 2005 reunion.
Garbage
No Gods No Masters
Defiant and fed up, the genre-blurring alt-rock mainstays deliver their most overtly political statement to date.
Halsey
If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power
Triumphant artistic showcase that pairs the pop star with producers Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross.
Jarvis Cocker
Chansons d'Ennui Tip-Top
A tie-in to Wes Anderson's The French Dispatch soundtrack, this emphatic set of covers should delight fans of vintage French and Baroque pop.
Jehnny Beth / Bobby Gillespie
Utopian Ashes
The Primal Scream frontman and former Savages leader step outside their comfort zones on these lush, elegantly heartbroken duets.
Juliana Hatfield
Blood
A nervy and hooky exploration of the agitated state of the world in the early 2020s.
Liz Phair
Soberish
Liz Phair reunites with co-producer Brad Wood for an album that exists a space between past and present, mainstream and fringe.
London Grammar
Californian Soil
This stunning third set from the soulful English pop trio finds vocalist Hannah Reid taking the reins on their best to date.
Lord Huron
Long Lost
The band's fourth full-length effort is a fever dream of Baroque pop and country-western twang.
Manchester Orchestra
Million Masks of God
The Georgia outfit's sixth album finds them further embracing an epic, cinematically concept-driven aesthetic.
Moby
Reprise
The electronic pioneer reflects on three decades with a gorgeous orchestral reimagining of hits and deep cuts.
Ours
Ours
The triumphant, career-best sixth LP from the emotive New Jersey-bred alternative rock outfit.
Parquet Courts
Sympathy for Life
On their seventh studio album, this mutable indie band twists the celebratory funk of their last album into strange, more cerebral forms.
Poppy
Flux
Poppy surprises with her fourth album, focusing her vision and songwriting chops into a concentrated rock blast.
Rostam
Changephobia
The singer/songwriter and producer navigates a world in flux with brilliantly evocative and frequently moving songs.
Shame
Drunk Tank Pink
Influenced by dance-punk and the highs and lows of post-fame life, Shame's second album is a portrait of a band constantly in motion.
Teenage Fanclub
Endless Arcade
The Scottish rock outfit's 11th album and first without founding bassist/vocalist Gerard Love is lyrical and poignant.
The Joy Formidable
Into the Blue
The Welsh indie rock trio's fifth album and second since relocating to Utah is a work of muscular, transcendent beauty.
The Killers
Pressure Machine
Pastoral, melancholy collection of intimate snapshots from frontman Brandon Flowers' hometown.
Tori Amos
Ocean to Ocean
Processing grief and loss, the singer/songwriter offers hope and healing with another strong late-era set.
Twenty One Pilots
Scaled and Icy
A lean, effervescent dose of measured optimism from the Ohio-bred, genre-blurring duo.
Twin Shadow
Twin Shadow
On his vibrantly catchy fifth full-length, George Lewis, Jr. reconnects with his love of vintage soul and his Dominican roots.
Willow
Lately I Feel Everything
Rocking fourth set that finds the multi-hyphenate tackling pop-punk and '90s alternative with an unpolished youthful spirit.
Wolf Alice
Blue Weekend
The band's ambitious, unabashedly emotional third album balances intimacy and majesty with cinematic skill.
X Ambassadors
The Beautiful Liar
A quirky, theatrical concept album that balances stadium-sized pop hooks with anti-war/anti-corporate greed sentiments.
