FLOOD

It’s the cumulative effect of the Austin rockers’ 11th LP that makes this album what it is: an interdimensional fever dream that reinvents the entire history of modern music.

Twenty-five records that have kept us sane while sheltering in place.

Our Associate Editor’s favorite pre-released singles, album deep cuts, and tracks by unfairly obscure artists from the past few weeks.

Our recommendations from the first month of a new decade.

Keely discusses the uncertainties that influenced the art-rock group’s tenth album.

By calling their ninth record “IX,” the increasingly cosmopolitan quartet highlight how long they’ve been around and, by implication, how far removed they are from 2002’s shadow-casting “Source Tags & Codes.” But “IX” comes closer to replicating Source Tags’ fractured romanticism than anything the group have done since.