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The indie-rock icon’s first solo album in nearly 20 years applies her early material’s magical-realist melancholy to real-life grief with unexpected directness.

In celebrating 10 years of funky compositional invention and soulful emotion, Stephen Lee Bruner offers an extended look at his first major-chord masterpiece.

The songwriter and co-founder of the Black Country Music Association talks building community, compiling her debut album, Beyoncé’s country turn, and more.

Leaning into mellower vibes and a sound far less overproduced than their recent material, the electro-funk duo’s mature, sultry sixth LP comes off as a bit of a surprise.

The Oscar-winning filmmaker discusses his new animated investigation into the life of disappeared Brazilian jazz musician Francisco Tenório Júnior, co-directed by Javier Mariscal.

The former Against Me! vocalist returns to the business of blisteringly blunt and spare rock music with elements of her COVID-era folk efforts captured in what often feels like a rough haste.

On his eighth album, Roberto Carlos Lange reaches deeper within the self while tying the project further to electronic music as he manipulates it to suit the emotional lyrical output.

The alt-R&B innovator discusses his way with sensual, emotional songwriting ahead of the release of his third LP.

Documenting a pair of 1985 London shows, this long-bootlegged double-LP offers an early look at the playfulness and boundary-testing the no wave icons would soon perfect on EVOL.

Celebrating 50 years with a bonus rough mix of the LP, McCartney’s third album with his post-Beatles band captures a man looking to outpace his immediate past while borrowing from its glories.

Released posthumously with the production assistance of Tricky, the producer-toaster’s final statement is a collection of seamless collaborations and chic synthwave.

With her 2001 disco single going viral after soundtracking the bold finale to Saltburn, the songwriter explains how this newfound attention precedes a return to a love of dance music.

Backed with liner notes from Tim Kinsella, this career-spanning comp unites the project’s three studio albums of ragingly ornamented and searingly rarified post-punk with previously unissued tracks.

The member of the terminally cheerful Kids in the Hall comedy troupe talks venting his frustrations with Amazon’s censorship of the series’ revival with a new solo comedy show.

The Wire frontman’s 1997 turn toward drum ’n’ bass, techno, house, and industrial music is guided by the goal of atmospheric mood-shifting and a love story just beginning to build.

Balancing his Entergalactic OST’s wobbly clouds of synth with the banger hooks he’s known for, Cudi’s lengthy ninth LP has too many guests sounding as if they’re squeezing to get in.

The second installment in Light in the Attic’s archive series on Reed spotlights his devotional ambient-drone LP—the pensive yin to its infamous successor’s metallic yang.

Our roundup of the anniversary releases, box sets, and other collections that stood out last year.

The debut collaboration between the Buffalo emcee and the German trap producer is a darkly clouded, overstuffed release that eats like a huge holiday meal after a maudlin family funeral.

In collecting 57 solo and duo efforts into one (not really) cohesive whole, a multi-hued portrait of the Mars Volta/At the Drive-In cofounder as an enigmatic genius emerges.