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Partnering with Sufjan Stevens on her perky debut album of freewheeling folk-pop, country-rock, and even sea shanties, the Catskills-based songwriter flits between genres with ease.

Inspired by the birth of her first child, the Danish artist’s fifth album also pulls heavily from poetry and literature to build on her gorgeous, piano-forward classical-pop sound.

The My Morning Jacket frontman chats about his meditative new psych-rock solo album Wowed Out and music’s capacity to heal.

Bridgers’ voice as a songwriter has only grown more resonant on her first solo LP in six years, characterized by a delicate dance of amorous love and crippling grief.

The Halloween composer-director’s latest effort is a synth-heavy metal album planned as a soundtrack to his first-ever graphic novel, though both endeavors stand on their own merits.

Jonathan Meiburg’s lyrical approach flits between apocalyptic soothsaying and naturalist poetry on his band’s ambitious and worldly eleventh album, which thrums with field recordings.

The songwriter’s earliest soul and jazz influences can be found swirling throughout her third album, which also expands into the realms of hypnotic electronic music and alt rock.

The noise rockers’ long-shelved follow-up to Electriclarryland arrives as a fascinating artifact of a band caught between self-sabotage and the lure of commercial pop accessibility.

Teetering between the influences of ’80s new wave and ’90s alt-rock, the pop star’s third album is a journey from jubilant lovesickness to a fatalistic collapse into romantic decay.

On his 20th album, the octogenarian pop-rock architect builds a time machine out of scuffed acoustic guitars, warm tape hiss, and the kind of indelible melodies that cast a long shadow.

By returning to the rustic environment that birthed their mid-career peak, the Danish post-punks rekindle their core artistic flame with a masterclass in controlled chaos.

Dave Grohl focuses on the objects in life that keep us grounded when times are just plain weird on the band’s 12th LP, which is less a total reinvention than a vital recalibration.

In our latest digital cover story, Lindsey Jordan discusses recovering from vocal surgery to find a new voice on her third album, Ricochet, as well as the music and films that inspired her along the way.

The pop-country songwriter understands the human weight of the American South’s emotionally rich tableau of high-speed heartbreak and low-light bars, as demonstrated on a resilient second album.

Ahead of the release of his highly collaborative new album Distracted, Stephen Bruner talks getting by in the digital age.

The sequel to the 2022 Album of the Year GRAMMY winner is another radical genre shape-shift for a pop star who refuses to settle for just another EDM album.

Creative director Mary Banas and photographer Lexie Alley examine the Tansy House aesthetic and various influences that slink out of Mitski’s eighth album like playful cats.

A heavier fraternal twin to 2024’s Light Verse, Sam Beam’s unlikely eighth album hums through the speakers like a quiet, sudden revelation.

The Manchester quartet’s second album sees them screaming personal and political crises into the void over a techno noise-rock kaleidoscope that arouses the cyber-punk apocalypse.

Arriving in celebration of the 20th anniversary of The Greatest, this EP excavates the past with a weary, newfound wisdom—like a ghostly transmission from a parallel timeline.