Featured New Album Releases

Guided by Voices

Tremblers & Goggles by Rank

GBV

Pop/Rock

Embracing prog rock complexity along with unbeatable pop melodies, the indie rock heroes continue a remarkable winning streak.

— Mark Deming

Imagine Dragons

Mercury: Acts 1 & 2

Interscope / Kid Ina Korner

Pop/Rock

Sprawling compilation set joining the band's fifth and sixth grief-focused albums and stand-alone hit single "Enemy" with JID.

— Neil Z. Yeung

Moor Mother

Jazz Codes

Anti-

Avant-Garde, Electronic, R&B

The guest-heavy companion album to 2021's Black Encyclopedia of the Air grew out of a book of poems about iconic blues and jazz artists.

— Paul Simpson

Gwenno

Tresor

Heavenly

Pop/Rock

The Welsh artist's third album is a contemplative, subdued take on the experimental pop of previous releases, though it still contains much mystery and beauty.

— Tim Sendra

Naima Bock

Giant Palm

Sub Pop

Pop/Rock

The former Goat Girl member's debut album blends folk, classical, jazz, and electronic influences into songs with an independent yet generous spirit.

— Heather Phares

Tedeschi Trucks Band

I Am the Moon: II. Ascension

Fantasy

Pop/Rock, Blues

The second installment in TTB's four-album I Am the Moon is more laid-back, with gorgeous songs that lean more on soul and modal blues.

— Thom Jurek

Burna Boy

Love, Damini

Spaceship

Reggae, Rap

The Nigerian Afro-fusion star continues his path to global dominance on a guest-heavy, but still personal sixth album.

— Timothy Monger

Neighbor Lady

For the Birds

Park the Van

Pop/Rock

Produced by Jason Kingsland (Belle and Sebastian, Lissie), the longing drawl of the group's second album is even more hauntingly vintage in character.

— Marcy Donelson

Paolo Nutini

Last Night in the Bittersweet

Atlantic

Pop/Rock

A gorgeously sprawling, deeply literate and personal album from the Scottish singer.

— Matt Collar

Momma

Household Name

Polyvinyl

Pop/Rock

Following a concept album, Etta Friedman and Allegra Weingarten refocus their riffy, ruminative indie rock on the everyday for their Polyvinyl debut.

— Marcy Donelson

Various Artists

Silberland, Vol. 1: The Psychedelic Side of Kosmische Musik (1972-1986)

Bureau B

Electronic, Avant-Garde, Pop/Rock

This compilation of early synthesizer music and Krautrock offers a perfect primer for anyone interested in digging a little deeper beyond the genre's best-known acts.

— Fred Thomas