Album Of The Week 968
Album of the Week: Pile – Green & Gray
The Boston post-hardcore band delivers the best of all possible Piles, resulting in their strongest and most diverse album.
Album of the Week: Wand – Laughing Matter
The California psych band finds their definition of "psychedelic" evolving with their best set of songs yet.
Album of the Week: Shafiq Husayn – The Loop
The Sa-Ra Creative Partners member returns after a decade with a years-in-the-making set of psychedelic soul.
Album of the Week: Inter Arma – Sulphur English
The Richmond metal band continue to defy expectations while delivering a richer emotional experience.
Album of the Week: Weyes Blood – Titanic Rising
An intricate record that finds Natalie Mering going into space.
Album of the Week: Brutus – Nest
The Belgian trio's second album is as powerful a rock album as has been released in years.
Album of the Week: These New Puritans – Inside the Rose
The UK art-rock outfit, slimmed to a duo, turn their intricate layers into a more accessible form of avant pop.
Album of the Week: The Comet Is Coming – Trust In the Lifeforce of the Deep Mystery
A vision of future jazz from the Shabaka Hutchings-guided electro-jazz trio.
Album of the Week: Solange – When I Get Home
Ms. Knowles puts grown-folks' blues and concerns into a consistently stunning beat-tape format.
Album of the Week: Devil Master – Satan Spits on Children of Light
The Philadelphia deathpunk outfit's full-length debut makes rowdy fun out of classic heavy metal and goth rock.
Album of the Week: Diät – Positive Disintegration
The Australian/German post-punk group emerges from cold storage with a compelling, stellar set of gloom.
Album of the Week: Theon Cross – Fyah
The Sons of Kemet tuba player breaks out on his own with a set of grime- and bass-influenced grooves.
Album of the Week: HEALTH – VOL. 4 :: SLAVES OF FEAR
And industrial hellscape made all the more pop-friendly with a surprising accessibility.
Album of the Week: Cherry Glazerr – Stuffed & Ready
The L.A. trio's latest is their biggest, boldest and most grown-up album.
Album of the Week: Deerhunter – Why Hasn’t Everything Already Disappeared?
The Atlanta band's seventh album yields great beauty from dark meditations.
Album of the Week: Sharon Van Etten – Remind Me Tomorrow
The dawn of a new experimental phase for the singer/songwriter, one with a brighter outlook.
Album of the Week: Great Falls – A Sense of Rest
This under-the-radar noise rock supergroup delivers a set of brutality and nuance.
Album of the Week: Portrayal of Guilt – Let Pain Be Your Guide
A blistering, 23-minute hardcore record that blurs the lines between screamo and black metal.
Album of the Week: Vince Staples – FM!
Vince gets conceptual in this brief "not an album" album that balances entertainment with something deeper and more painful.
Album of the Week: boygenius – boygenius EP
Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers and Lucy Dacus combine their talents on a stunning new collaborative EP.