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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.

With the help of producer Cate Le Bon, the South London quartet’s third album sands down their jagged post-punk edges into smooth, surreal pebbles of magical realism.

This concert album is a striking time capsule of a veteran rock group in complete control as a unit during their recent global tour, cutting stadium bombast with a gospel reverence.

The SNL, Wednesday, and Portlandia star takes us through his favorite driving spots, tasty taco eats, and an ordinary work day in the City of Angels.

Laura Burhenn’s fifth album strips the project down to its piano core as she revisits old songs from her discography through a more introspective lens.

The Denton folk-rockers’ second album since returning from a hiatus flits effortlessly between psychedelic rock, folk, and hazy jazz as Eric Pulido continues to steer the ship forward.

After recent big swings across the pop plate, Florence Welch’s gothic sixth album gets cerebral and probing as the songwriter proves herself to be more in touch with her emotions.

Despite finding inspiration in house music and the birth of his daughter, Kevin Parker’s fifth album is largely defined by a conflict between past and present.

Almqvist shares how The Hives Forever Forever The Hives bottles up the lightning-bolt energy of the veteran Swedish garage-rock band once again.

Arriving after her longest gap between solo records, Case’s eighth LP is heavy with atmospheric details and new perspective; it wonders yet never wanders.

On his epic triple album, the Wilco frontman displays the kind of resonant, rambling folk-rock he’s long been known for, both through personal missives and family-and-friends affairs.

The Swedish garage-rockers’ seventh album feels lean and mean from the jump, with their lovable braggadocio bursting at the seams on what feels like another fiery debut.

The gothic songwriter’s latest collection of bad-dream vignettes feels like a return to the mold she was cast in as she wrestles with the current state of her country through obscured lyrics.

In our latest digital cover story, Ben Schneider discusses searching the dark recesses of outer space for the beauty and mystery hardwired into the band’s lore-rich new album, The Cosmic Selector Vol. 1.

The British indie-folk songwriter’s fifth album is aided by a full-band even in its most personal moments, as Marten reflects on indelible scenes from childhood as seen through adult eyes.

Paired with familiar high-gloss minimalism courtesy of producer Pharrell Williams, Pusha T and Malice’s first album in 16 years stands up fairly well as an assured re-up of their rap powers.