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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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Ghastly : Mercurial Passages

An accessibly filthy slab of death metal from the Finnish group.

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Marina Allen : Candlepower

A contemporary folk album that builds on a legacy of great singer/songwriter albums.

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Mannequin Pussy : Perfect

A potent blend of vulnerability and defiance.

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Panopticon : …And Again Into the Light

Black metal/folk artist Austin Lunn delves into struggles for internal peace on his majestic new album.

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St. Vincent : Daddy’s Home

Annie Clark wraps her most personal record to date in an idealized polyester world.

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

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Fucked Up : Year of the Horse

The band’s new 90-minute composition is an absolute monster of a record.

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Colleen : The Tunnel and the Clearing

An intimate pop record that feels like a soothing balm.

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Sarah Neufeld : Detritus

The former Arcade Fire member and violinist pairs an emotionally driven approach with the tools of avant garde.

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CHAI : WINK

A joyful bedroom pop album that doubles as an act of self-care.

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An Autumn for Crippled Children : As the Morning Dawns We Close Our Eyes

The Dutch blackgaze group balance beauty with harshness on their streamlined ninth album.

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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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Grave Miasma : Abyss of Wrathful Deities

A classicist slab of blackened death metal, in the most brutal of ways.

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Pardoner : Came Down Different

The San Francisco band’s third album is their most fully realized batch of songs to date.

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Bare Wire Son : Off Black

A bleak and haunting document of WWI through slow-moving drones.

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Sufjan Stevens : Convocations

A lengthy yet deeply moving meditation on grief through five ambient sets.

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Tomas Nordmark : Exit Ghosts

An album that evokes frozen rivers and vast plains of snow.

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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.

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Flying Lotus : Yasuke

The producer delivers an exhilarating soundtrack to the new Netflix anime, for which he also serves as executive producer.