An unpredictable lo-fi folk-pop gem with engaging melodies and quirky, sometimes dazzling arrangements.
The band's stunning, often harrowing fourth album eloquently expresses their deep-seated, righteous anger.
This collaboration between like-minded artists takes the singer to new realms -- trip-hop, noise rock -- while delivering plenty of French pop delights as well.
The London trio brings clarity and haunting emotion to their mercurial mix of post-punk, lo-fi, and shoegaze.
Arriving just months after the indie pop institution's 2022 effort, this album continues its stylistic dabbling and exploration of existence and aging.
The singer/songwriter examines the politics of relationships with razor-sharp lyrics and a vivid mix of punk, synth pop, and folk.
The U.K. band distills the essence of a wild and chaotic year with a live album of all-new material.
The trio bring their elegant, mysterious music down to earth with a fuller, richer sound and songs that savor the moment.
Recorded with producer Ali Chant, the Glasgow duo's spellbinding second album adds more color and emotion to its minimalist indie rock.
The band's first album recorded entirely in a professional studio delivers direct, imaginative songs about music's power to unite people.
The South African artist's second album is a powerful blend of art rock and avant-garde jazz, inspired by his practice as a spiritual healer.
The Swedish combo's second album is an elegant hybrid of retro-soul, light psychedelia, and breezy pop.
The U.K. art-pop combo sound fresh and revitalized on their guest-heavy, space-themed fifth album.
The Parisian indie combo comes into their own on their confident yet surprisingly poignant third record.
The Chicago trio's haunting, fractured fifth album marks the band's evolution from impressive to transcendent.
Featuring production by their brother/Knife bandmate Olof, Karin Dreijer's third album pares their music down to its most revealing essence.
The fourth solo album from the adaptable indie artist finds her fully embracing electronic production as the vehicle for her sharp-cornered pop.
Genevieve Artadi follows her playful Brainfeeder debut with a kaleidoscopic, highly disciplined progressive jazz-pop album.
An unusually focused and efficient album from the virtual group.
The studio debut from the Texas-raised artist, whose introspective, sweetly catchy songs recall the dreamy side of '90s alternative.
The singer/songwriter puts acoustic guitar at the forefront of songs filled with mesmerizing sounds and lyrics.
Taja Cheek follows her 2021 breakthrough with a dreamy, contradiction-riddled record reflecting on the heartbreak of being hurt by loved ones.
The Danish collective's moving third album offers warm yet complex meditations on what it means to be part of a family.
The singer/songwriter and producer reconciles her identity with her Chinese-Malaysian roots with songs that float gently but sink in deeply.
On her first album in ten years, this guitar virtuoso sounds positive and self-assured without losing the controlled frenzy that made her early work pop.
The project's third album connects the storytelling of British folk and the world-building of video games with striking, inspiring results.
The Spanish quartet upgrade from jangling garage rock to bubbling indie rock with vintage synths while upping their melodic craft in the bargain.
A poignant commentary on technology and identity, the singer/songwriter's debut album reveals striking new levels to their electro-rock.
Following in the novelty pop with politics footsteps of Go-Kart Mozart, this is another warped and wonderful transmission from the brain of Lawrence and friends.
The writer and DJ returns with her most introspective, emotionally vivid work, encompassing dreamy indie pop, post-punk, and blissful deep house.
The turn-of-the-'80s-inspired synth pop act seem to hit their stride on a catchy, anxious third LP that incorporates occasional live instruments.
Dazzling, ambitious third album from the anonymous South Korean emo/shoegaze musician.
The duo's first album made in California is typically bright and bubbly pop that balances familiar warmth with adventurous arrangements.
Ranging from '90s-inspired alt-pop to Delta blues homages, the singer/songwriter's ninth album balances polish and deeply felt emotion.
Recorded with an orchestra and without their drummer, the post-rock project's gorgeous, ambient-leaning eighth album is offered as a balm to turmoil.
The Warp debut from uncategorizable artist Jasper Marsalis is a vulnerable expression of raw truth.
The duo follows the success of Spare Ribs with hilarious, furious, and musically adventurous responses to a post-pandemic U.K.
The band's second post-reunion album is a brilliant evolution that sees them incorporating electronics, post-punk, and even big pop melodies into their shoegaze sound.
Completed by friends and family, Mark Linkous' fifth album is a heartbreaking, uplifting tribute to the way his music moved so many people.
The band confronts the lingering aftermath of abuse with fierce, surprising songs full of novelistic lyrics and teeth-rattling guitars.
The U.K. combo refines their still unclassifiable sound on this stormy follow-up.
Mason's nonconformist pop is elevated by a rousing sense of globalist uplift.
Fifth album from this New York ensemble is an especially dynamic set of their euphoric jazz/punk/kosmiche sound.
The duo respond to a world in flux with a tight collection of post-punk that expertly balances melody, noise, and a wry sense of humor.
Typical autumnal heartbreak, this time folding in elements of jazz, psychedelia, and electronic music while still sounding perfectly like themselves alone.
Designed as a soundtrack for a lost spaghetti Western, the band nimbly add strings and some country-rock along the way to another triumph.
Typically thrilling performances and insistently hooky songs from the long-running group, played here with extra verve -- and emotion.
Fifth album from prolific indie act with fuzzy melodies drawing from '80s college rock.
The duo's haunting, often hallucinatory third album combines volatile sounds and emotions with a mixtape-like flow.
Singer/songwriter Laetitia Tamko continues incorporating dance and pop influences on her third album.
The group's first album as a trio adds a shifting, shadowy mystique to their experimental electronic pop.
The Brooklyn duo's consistently gripping sixth album delivers skronky noise pop, subtle melodic gestures, deadpan wit, and surprising emotional depth.
North Carolina indie rockers craft a stunning, deeply moving portrait of life on America's margins.
The band's pop experimentalism comes to the fore on their 15th studio album, with help from producer Cate Le Bon.
An album of romantic sophisti-pop that sounds like a lost classic from the late '80s.
The noise institution explores various abstract ideas on this collection of deliberately concise surrealistic miniatures.
Building from a foundation of dreamy loops, this ever-evolving indie folk act turn in some of their most ornate production and ambitious songwriting to date.
Nat Ćmiel dives into shoegaze, grunge, and punk influences on their cathartic third album.
America's quintessential indie rock band embrace a new level of D.I.Y. with an album reflecting the mastery of their process.
The Japanese improvisational duo makes the most of its invigorating creative chemistry on its radiant, playful, and surprising debut.
Joy and purpose amid turbulence are conveyed throughout the Scottish trio's first album in five years.
The artist's third album for Warp distills their music into its catchiest incarnation while holding on to its essential mystery.
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