Even God has trouble figuring out other people in this audacious and thoughtful song cycle.
The group's first album in over a decade uses vintage soul as the foundation for its elegant anthems and elegies.
The singer/songwriter follows her Mercury Prize-winning debut with a more emotionally urgent, stylistically varied second album.
The Dutch singer/songwriter collaborates with producer Kenny Beats on this sunny, '70s and early-'80s-inspired set.
The Best Coast singer embraces a fearless honesty and twangy pop/rock sound on her debut solo album.
A hushed and deeply focused solo outing from this rusty-voiced songwriter recalls elements of his most celebrated earlier work.
Phoebe Bridgers, Julien Baker, and Lucy Dacus emphasize their unified voice on this bracingly immediate album.
The former Cat Stevens aligns his musical past and spiritual present on a moving and well-crafted album.
The former Containe and Pacific Ocean member offers up a gentle, impressionistic solo album.
After a few solo albums of gentle, lonely Americana, the Wand bandleader shifts course drastically in favor of greasy, layered guitar riffs and hard-rocking weirdness.
Field Music's David Brewis turns in a jazzy chamber-folk gem on his solo debut.
Producer Cate Le Bon applies a shadowy sheen of atmospheric synth pop to this singer/songwriter's malleable talents.
Adding string sections and spacey synths, this is a more lushly arranged, similarly beautiful take on the haunted folk of the singer's previous album.
Developed at a series of intimate concerts, the songwriter's first album in six years takes on profound subject matter with an experimental bent.
A literate, melancholic sophomore set from the Chicago-based indie pop project of Maria Jacobson.
The great songwriter becomes conscious of his mortality, fueling a powerful LP about making the most of our time on earth.
More deeply emotional and richer musically than previous work, the singer/songwriter takes a leap forward with a painfully honest, warmly melodic set of songs.
The intricately self-produced, disheartened follow-up to 2020's All That Emotion is an exercise in writing more candidly that pays off.
M.C. Taylor signs up for the fight to be happy and grateful on this exercise in the power of cautious optimism.
Philosophical and personal examinations of romantic relationships that expand the singer/songwriter and poet's stylistic palette.
A poignant and emotionally vulnerable collection with a pleasing old-timey feel.
The stellar songwriter and producer brings in a small army of talented friends for a dynamic, full-flavored contemplation of life.
An understated, gorgeously written set that plays almost like an anthology of the singer's various modes.
The singer, songwriter, and producer's first album in three years relishes in sonic and lyrical experimentation while retaining his persona.
Fluid outsider folk artist strays from synth experiments and creates a spare and haunting atmospheric mood heavy on environmental field recordings.
The Vashti Bunyan and Joni Mitchell disciple's follow-up to 2017's Not Even Happiness manages to raise the stakes in artistry.
A poignant 2020-penned album whose themes of grief and isolation are elevated by its lush musicianship and Bacharach and Nilsson inspirations.
A stark and captivating debut LP from the onetime National Youth Poet Laureate.
The songwriter takes on heavier themes surrounding change without sacrificing compact hooks, experimentation, or melodicism on her Anti- label debut.
Returning after a three-year break, this London sextet led by Archy Marshall observes then charts the inner and outer "spaces between."
The depressive pop superstar's ninth album finds her returning to the level of songwriting and atmosphere cultivation she achieved on her best work before it.
The Icelandic crooner's second LP and international breakthrough doubles down on the updated yet still anachronistic vocal-era stylings of her debut.
Interior art-pop ballads from the British singer/songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer formerly known as Blue Roses.
The pop craftsman who's unafraid to take chances leaps another step closer to a full-on synth pop reboot on this coldly intimate, deeply felt album.
The prolific singer/songwriter offers a distant sequel of sorts to his earlier highlight Transistor Radio.
The Kent singer/songwriter makes a quietly stunning debut of poignant and vulnerable piano pop.
In a sharp left turn, our indie anti-heroine follows the quasi-synth pop Laurel Hell with a quasi-country set that still can't find peace with love.
The former 10,000 Maniacs singer looks to the future with a heart full of love and courage.
A moving meditation on mortality and faith.
Based on Harvey's epic poem Orlam, her spellbinding tenth album contemplates the transition from childhood to adulthood with hallucinatory folk, rock, and electronics.
The eighth album from this former Go-Between is a heavy but beautiful reflection on family, aging, and wisdom gained as life goes on.
Whispery folk tunes and orchestral instrumentation create a smoldering atmosphere on the third solo album from the La Luz bandleader.
James Wallace (aka Skyway Man) delivers another endearing and offbeat set of celestial pop songs for the Psilocybin Age.
Ella Williams' melancholic third release is both cathartic and captivating.
Love, both human and divine, is examined in all its complexity and necessity in one of the songwriter's most affecting works.
The Norwegian singer/songwriter hits another career peak on this uplifting and philosophical set.
Tracked with Big Thief drummer James Krivchenia, Luke Temple, and others, the Londoner's intricate second LP processes the early part of the pandemic.
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