On their third album this year, the New Orleans garage rockers embrace conflicting emotions and clashing sounds, balancing hard-charging rave-ups with exploratory tape experiments.

On its first live album, the New York trio recasts a quarter-century of rock songs for strings, piano, and acoustic guitar, highlighting the ache and vulnerability at the heart of its music.

So post-ironic it’s deadass, the Toronto songwriter’s debut renders a thoroughly modern affect with rare authenticity.

Too challenging to qualify as radio rock, the Los Angeles songwriter’s cloudy, lo-fi grunge is stuffed with ’90s references and opaque secrets.

With delirious melodic instincts, the Bronx rapper’s new tape evokes Young Money-era swag on a SoundCloud budget.

The Lisbon trio trades the laid-back feel of its earlier, more disco-indebted work for skeletal machine minimalism, twisted sequencer fugues, and lo-fi ambient that conceals more than it reveals.

On her debut album, the musician combines her family’s Jamaican mento legacy with her personal love of folk for a set of graceful, winningly direct songs.

Experimental artist Felicia Chen’s high-contrast compositions unite whispers and shrieks, intimate acoustics and inhuman distortion.

Unlike the composer’s typically massive, sprawling drones, these pieces for pipe organ—accompanied by guitarist Stephen O’Malley and cellist Lucy Railton—are finely filigreed miniatures.

On a new EP, the Ohio singer-songwriter writes with focus and immediacy, their lyrics blending a love of chaos with an eye toward long-term stability.

The perennially unserious duo’s embrace of AI is the least of the problems weighing down its latest album (and 55-track bonus compendium) of post-ironic club pop.

A newly unearthed live performance, originally intended for broadcast on NPR, showcases a unique and transitional moment for the free-jazz pianist’s ensemble.

Featuring heartbroken vocal performances and stripped of frills like basslines or reverb, the Manchester producer’s latest album of bruised electronica is his starkest and most forlorn yet.

The “Stop the Wedding!” singer’s vintage-styled new album combines stately pop classicism and exuberant ’70s pastiche.

The Disintegration Loops made the composer’s name synonymous with weighty meditations on memory and loss, but his latest album—calm, focused, tender—is a reminder of his fondness for beauty.