Album of the Week

Every album that’s earned Treble’s coveted Album of the Week designation.

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Emma Ruth Rundle – Engine of Hell

A stark, stripped-down set of songs that offers only the raw truth.

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Fire-Toolz – Eternal Home

Angel Marcloid’s new double-album is a reinvention of prog.

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Circuit des Yeux – -io

Haley Fohr creates her biggest album while confronting an overwhelming darkness.

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The World Is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die – Illusory Walls

The group’s most lyrically poignant is also their most sonically overwhelming.

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Dos Santos – City of Mirrors

The Chicago group’s fusion of Latinx music with jazz, soul, surf rock and psychedelia transcends.

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Full of Hell : Garden of Burning Apparitions

The Maryland grindcore outfit push themselves toward the farther edges of extreme music while perfecting their aesthetic.

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The Body & Big|Brave – Leaving None But Small Birds

The two heavy acts come together not to make noise but to draw on folk tradition with their own unique interpretations.

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Moor Mother – Black Encyclopedia of the Air

Camae Ayewa’s new full-length is an embrace of heady, accessible sounds without softening the poignancy of her words.

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Little Simz – Sometimes I Might Be Introvert

The UK rapper’s fourth album is her most ambitious and personal yet, balancing internal monologue with big arrangements.

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Low – HEY WHAT

Low still live in hope, but it’s surrounded by a breathtaking cacophony.

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The Bug – Fire

Kevin Martin merges dancehall and hip-hop with a heavy metal intensity that makes this feel like his heaviest to date.

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Deafheaven – Infinite Granite

The California black metal band finally goes full shoegaze and it’s glorious.

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alexalone – ALEXALONEWORLD

A harmonious intersection of indie pop and doom metal.

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Lingua Ignota – SINNER GET READY

Kristin Hayter strips away the heaviest elements of her sound to expose an even darker terror.

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King Woman – Celestial Blues

Kris Esfandiari’s doom metal project speaks to the superlative quality of the group’s power.

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Darkside : Spiral

An expansion of Dave Harrington and Nicolas Jaar’s slowly expanding universe.

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Half Waif – Mythopoetics

Nandi Rose continues a streak of wonderfully melancholy albums with a greater emphasis on electronics.

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Sault – Nine

The London R&B collective’s third album in one year is shorter, grittier, but with a sense of playfulness amid the realism

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Faye Webster – I Know I’m Funny haha

The Atlanta singer/songwriter delivers a warmly intimate set of songs that feel like summer.

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Spellling – The Turning Wheel

Tia Cabral’s third album is a lush and cinematic new frontier.