FLOOD

The Philadelphia-based group take us deeper into the thrilling narrative conclusion of their third album of prog-metal experimentation, out now via Equal Vision.

Far more mournful than his solo debut from last year, the former Low member’s collaboration with the titular bluegrass band is drenched in sorrow, absence, longing, and dark devastation.

On their second LP, the Dublin trio weave through belligerent post-punk and quasi-industrial aesthetics, manipulating song structures and having fun with atonal soundscapes.

Worry Bead Records compiles tracks from Squirrel Flower, Remember Sports, 22° Halo, and more conjuring a wistful world of lo-fi elegance while raising funds for a very worthwhile cause.

On their third album, Chicago’s grungey power-pop outfit neatly balances present-day anxieties with wistful nostalgia while sagely ruminating on existential struggle and broader social themes.

With the Toronto punks releasing their fifth album Who Will Look After the Dogs? today, we grill lead guitarist Steve Sladkowski about the band’s back-to-basics approach.

The Fort Collins punks share the first track from their seventh album Nobody’s Going to Heaven just in time for May Day.

Arriving a decade after the formation of the Atlanta emo-punk trio, the 10 sophisticated, visceral songs on this debut feel like a release of pent-up energy.

Doing away with their blues-stomp/desert-rock hybrid in favor of something more mellow and downbeat, the Canadian duo’s sophomore LP is a collection of deep sighs and broken hearts.

The experimental metal band’s sixth album relishes in the unexpected, containing some of their most extreme black-metal moments as well as some of their most tenderly fragile.

The “post-glacier” goblin-punks discuss their new album Daydream Indignation, Portland, Oregon’s flourishing music scene, and manifesting friendship.

The NYC indie-folk duo’s sixth album is a wonderful rumination on the perceived limitations of songcraft, using its 11 tracks to demonstrate the infinite approaches to universal themes.

Vocalist Coco Kinnon fills us in on the journey to making the Nashville-based pop-punk trio’s debut album My Apologies to the Chef sound “100 percent” their own.

These nine shelved recordings remain resplendent explosions of emotion and wonder 34 years later, despite the then-nascent Boston shoegazers clearly striving to find their sound.

The tender pain of Jojo Orme’s post-punk debut mostly maintains the sinister nature of its dual inspiration—suffering brought upon by war and through fractured relationships—quite well.

Recorded in 2001, originally released in 2010, and newly remastered, there’s a bristling energy that runs through this EP that maximizes the weird terror of these 16 bursts of grindcore.

The Acid Bath vocalist offers a cryptic introduction to 7 Songs for Spiders, his first solo release in 15 years.

Written through an older and wiser lens, the NYC hardcore punks’ new EP contains the same kind of ebullience that the band possessed when they last released material 25 years ago.

More of an immersive art installation than an album, this 90-minute drone project is every bit as moving as its pop predecessor despite feeling deliberately difficult.

Carré Callaway’s friend and collaborator Roger O’Donnell of The Cure fame is featured in the new clip, which was co-directed by Callaway.