The Philly power pop recording project presents their most engaging, listenable set of songs yet, despite it also being their most lo-fi.
Damon McMahon's dense, challenging critique of American culture's need to conform is equal parts timely and timeless.
The Los Angeles singer pairs with Chicano Batman's Carlos Arévalo for her bold follow-up to Cha Cha Palace.
The self-titled fourth album from this Minneapolis duo is pure indie pop satisfaction from start to finish.
The twangy California outfit emerge from a long hiatus with an album that evokes the warm, psychedelic glow of the moon.
A return to the band's roots, their fourth album delivers some of their most subterranean-sounding experiments.
The Austin, Texas duo enlisted producer John Congleton to reinvigorate their '60s-indebted sound on a (psych/garage) rock-solid 16-track sophomore LP.
On their first album in 13 years, this experimental duo balances their signature sonic decay with more straightforward shoegaze dreaminess.
Transcendent instrumental suite played by a highly disciplined quartet of New York music scene veterans.
Infectious debut of a Chicago band who round up influences spanning Elvis, Morrissey, the Strokes, and new wave behind charismatic singer Wes Leavins.
Beautifully sad, warmly played and sung album about death and healing made with subtle country-rock and electronic accents.
Fusing elegantly fractured trip-hop with wicked riffs and aching vocals, the singer/songwriter heals from trauma and reinvents her music.
The singer/songwriter and director reinvent his surreally sensuous pop with mesmerizing songs that seem to stop time in its tracks.
The Detroit dream pop/slowcore duo's impressive debut is a soothing daze of patient rhythms, drifting guitars, and sighing vocals.
The minimalistic Chicago indie trio grows sharper, smarter, and stranger on a set of songs that's adventurous and immaculately produced.
The band's despondently beautiful fourth album pairs songs about a world falling apart with seductive sonics and a little bit of hope.
The Swedish indie pop combo's third LP is a wonder of radiant melodies and arrangements.
The resolutely independent artist's fourth album is a musically inventive, emotionally direct, razor-sharp triumph.
The band's second album sees them altering their shoegaze-Stereolab template to get more experimental as they add avant-garde, new age, and dance music elements.
The duo delve deeper into shoegaze's welcoming embrace while building out the arrangements using keyboards, noise, and even more space.
A labyrinthian dance-punk experience, with enough urgency that it flies by like a fever dream.
A synthy, '80s prog rock aesthetic marks the British duo's ninth album.
Joined by the likes of close collaborator Steve Lacy, Karriem Riggins, and Sir Dylan, the singer basks in Caribbean sunshine on her second RCA album.
A notably impassioned debut by a Chicago duo who alternate desperate ballads, midtempo earworms, and nihilistic rockers to moving effect.
The band deliver the usual dose of gnarly guitars, freak folk, and mystical biker psych, this time with some well-played hip-hop influences added in.
The Canadian ensemble's most explicitly political work is triumphant and uplifting rather than bleak and mournful.
The L.A. indie wunderkind enters her twenties with a heavy heart on an often infectious second album produced with Day Wave's Jackson Phillips.
Roberto Carlos Lange slows down and savors the moment with a sunny, seemingly effortless blend of psych rock, jazz, kosmische, and ambient pop.
Embracing shoegaze and slowcore, Peter Sagar returns to the guitar-based music of his youth on his impressive sixth album.
The Detroit-area supergroup turn from free-flowing drones to riff-heavy prog and hard rock on their third album in two years.
Still beaming in from an unknown galaxy, this cosmic indie songwriter turns in her most human-sounding set of songs.
Inspired by death, new motherhood, and creativity itself, the singer/songwriter and composer delivers flowing, affecting music filled with wonder.
The indie icon's winning solo debut offers some of her catchiest, most eclectic, and most revealing music.
The former Sonic Youth member delivers knife-edged beats and hypnotic character studies that feel like the essence of her entire body of work.
A mesmerizing sophomore LP that draws on the sonics of Mazzy Star, the Velvet Underground, Speedy Wunderground, noise rock, haunted folk, and more.
Sadier combines urgent calls for love and self-knowledge with experimental sonics that border on sacred, making for some of her most vital solo music.
The fourth album from the English electronic pop trio sets deep heartbreak into some of their most gorgeous songs yet.
The band add a pinch of melancholy and some soul music influence to a reliably punchy and joyful blast of mod indie pop.
The debut album from members of Electrelane and It Hugs Back is a sonically impressive entry in the always fascinating genre of cinematic psychedelia.
Phil Elverum's sprawling, noisy document of the peace he found while reassembling his life offers a deeply rewarding listening experience.
The New York group craft a philosophical tenth album about the passing of time that's also one of their most hooky and joyous.
The second album from this Oakland art-punk band turns up the danceability with the inclusion of a horn section and additional percussion.
Cutting down on collaborators but retaining an artful palette, the songwriter/producer's third album is an alluringly intimate and enigmatic outing.
The sax-and-drums duo's brazen, fiery debut album is a thrilling listen for those who love music that's as unpretentious as it is inventive.
On their fourth album, the band amps up the energy, sharpens the hooks, and delivers their clearest-sounding, most-exhilarating record to date.
The Los Angeles band introduce subtle electronic elements to their Stereolab-by-way-of-Van Dyke Parks baroque pop sound.
Tales of a dangerous past and uplifting survival told in classic punk troubadour style by the former Only Ones' leader.
The sixth album from this New Jersey indie band continues their arc of maturation while returning to the straightforward charm of their earliest days.
Ten ecstatic songs from New York popsmith Andrew Choi examining his work journey.
Drawing on industrial, grunge, ska, and more, Annie Clark expresses the terror and exhilaration of being alive with ferocious, candid songs.
Album eight hits a sweet spot with 17 bittersweet, grooving synth pop tracks that play out like an hour-long DJ set for the alienated.
The singer/songwriter reinvents her music with shifting, sophisticated songs that bring the heart's shadowy realms into the light.
On their first album in 16 years, these goth rock superpowers stir up echoes of the slow, sad beauty of their best-loved work.
The band's first album as a four-piece spans starry electronic ballads, pulsing new wave homages, and ecstatic motorics.
A remarkably assured set of bold-faced indie rock teaming with earworm melodies, darkly romantic lyrics, and thespian bluster.
The trio's sophomore outing is a mood-heavy trip that requires some attention for its nourishing payoff.
Sounding exactly as warm, sweet, and moving as they did decades earlier, the duo add maturity and grace to their minimal indie pop sound.
The noise rock figurehead continues to expand on his transcendent sonic dreamworld with help from members of Stereolab, My Bloody Valentine, and Negativland.
The band's urgent musings on how history happens make for some of their most moving and jaw-droppingly audacious music.
