Album Of The Week 947
Album of the Week: Unknown Mortal Orchestra – IC-01 HANOI
This loose, improvisational session from Ruban Nielson and company is a complete 180 from their last effort.
Album of the Week: Neneh Cherry – Broken Politics
A beautiful, uncomfortable meditation on activism and self-awareness.
Album of the Week: Cloud Nothings – Last Burning Building
The most intense and aggressive that Cloud Nothings have ever sounded, coupled with a refined songwriting sensibility.
Album of the Week: Gouge Away – Burnt Sugar
The Fort Lauderdale, Florida post-hardcore group has evolved at an accelerated rate, raising the bar with their second album.
Album of the Week: Sumac – Love In Shadow
The most improvisational and exploratory album by the metal trio proves to be their most powerful and affecting.
Album of the Week: Aphex Twin – Collapse
The braindance king of Cornwall keeps up a hot streak with a set that continues to challenge and build on his legacy.
Album of the Week: Emma Ruth Rundle – On Dark Horses
The singer/songwriter delivers a heavier, denser album that shows cracks of light shining through the darkness.
Album of the Week: Idles – Joy As An Act of Resistance
The Bristol post-punk group builds on their breakout debut with hope, pain and lots of volume.
Album of the Week: Thou – Magus
The Louisiana metal group aims for transcendence on their introspective, elegant and devastating fifth album.
Album of the Week: Blood Orange – Negro Swan
Dev Hynes returns to the timeless concept of hope on his fourth album.
Album of the Week: Mitski – Be the Cowboy
Mitski's latest is a kind of concept album about how she's perceived as an artist, with her most vibrant arrangements to date.
Album of the Week: Uniform – The Long Walk
The New York industrial group mix live drums and old-time religion with their overwhelming primal scream.
Album of the Week: The Internet – Hive Mind
The R&B collective reaffirm their confidence and talent on their best album to date.
Album of the Week: Imperial Triumphant – Vile Luxury
The New York experimental metal trio create a world of opulence and squalor, blast beats and free jazz.
Album of the Week: Lotic – Power
An intense detanglement of power structures through impenetrable, heavy and menacing sounds.
Album of the Week: Deafheaven – Ordinary Corrupt Human Love
The California black metal band embrace non-metal sounds in stunning ways on their fourth album.
Album of the Week: Nine Inch Nails – Bad Witch
Reznor's weirdest, most sax-heavy and "industrial" album in some time.
Album of the Week: Kamasi Washington – Heaven and Earth
On his second sprawling set of music, Washington balances warmth and ambition, concept and soul.
Album of the Week: Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever – Hope Downs
A work of balance, contrast and three guitarists make the Australian group's debut sound miraculous.
Album of the Week: Flasher – Constant Image
The Washington D.C. post-punk trio builds on their early releases with a dynamic and exciting debut full-length.