Album of the Week

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

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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.

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Six Organs of Admittance – The Veiled Sea

Ben Chasny delivers an album of rock and folk extremes, both meditative and manic.

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Japanese Breakfast – Jubilee

Michelle Zauner’s third album finds her embracing joy with a vibrant sound to match.

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Loraine James – Reflection

The UK producer’s sophomore album feels genuinely futuristic and disorienting in truly innovative ways.

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The video for  “John L,” off black midi’s volatile second album Cavalcade, attempts to visually…

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Mdou Moctar – Afrique Victime

The Tuareg guitarist/songwriter delivers an album that radiates warmth even as it soars to psychedelic heights.

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Sons of Kemet – Black to the Future

A work of Afro-Caribbean jazz Afrofuturism that suggests an ebb and flow, an expansion and contraction of the London band’s universe.