The camera catches Buck Meek hanging onto a fence, illuminating the boundary between him and total darkness, which even his black suit seems to be blending into. On the cover of his new album The Mirr...

We caught up with Domenic Palermo to talk about nostalgia, Williams H. Gass’ The Tunnel, and other inspirations behind Nothing's new LP.

Rian Bobbitt-Chertock, the Oakland-based artist who makes music as Maria BC, remembers first encountering Marissa Nadler’s music about a decade ago, when Bury Your Name was released. In a newsletter p...

Mitski's eighth and longest album (at 35 minutes), Nothing's About to Happen to Be might be her boldest, most cohesive statement to date.

We caught up with hemlocke springs to talk about the trajectory of her debut album, realizing the viability of a musical career, and more.

Remember Sports is an indie rock band that formed in 2012 when its members were attending Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio. Having put out their first album (as Sports) on Bandcamp in 2014, they signed...

We caught up with Mandy, Indiana to talk about physicality, video game atmospheres, and other inspirations behind their new album URGH.

Have you actually tried it? In the lead-up to Ratboys’ new album, singer/guitarist Julia Steiner has outlined in one interview after another the therapeutic exercise that gives Singin’ to an Empty Cha...

We caught up with Softcult to talk about releasing a debut album the second time, self-producing, twin factor, and more.

Alec Duckart, the Pacific Northwest singer-songwriter who records as Searows, was looking for a title for his new album when he stumbled on just the right passage from Herman Mellville’s Moby-Dick:  “...

We caught up with Sassy 009 to talk about her musical upbringing, intrusive thoughts as a kind of daydreaming, and more.

If the evocative title of Victoryland’s label debut grabs your attention, I’m here to tell you that My Heart Is a Room With No Cameras In It totally earns it. The Brooklyn-based project of Julian McCa...

Rocky's energy may sometimes be misdirected, but it hardly wanes throughout his recklessly chaotic first album in eight years.

It’s remarkable that it took over a decade for Julianna Barwick and Mary Lattimore to make an album together. Two of the biggest figures in contemporary ambient music, the composers developed a friend...

Jenny on Holiday is the solo project of Jenny Hollingworth, who has been making whimsical, glimmering alt-pop as one half of Let’s Eat Grandma since she was 16. Although she and Rosa Walton wrote the ...

Secret Love might be Dry Cleaning's darkest or most optimistic album, blurring the line between harmlessness and real horror.

The question of what constitutes an EP did not go away in 2025. A certain artist who topped our EPs list several years ago and has managed to do so again – with a very different project – stirred up t...

Our list of the best songs of 2025, featuring Geese, Sabrina Carpenter, Wednesday, Bad Bunny, HAIM, and more.

Our list of the best album covers of 2025, featuring Jane Remover, Jefre Cantu-Ledesma, Momma, Deftones, and more.

With s h i n e, Tobias Jesso Jr. takes the crown for the most low-stakes comeback of the year.

We caught up with Sword II's Certain Zuko to talk about the influences behind Electric Hour, their upcoming tour, Guitar Hero, and more.

As you grow into adulthood, the young version of yourself becomes as mythical as the things that captured that person’s imagination. For Keaton Henson, who came up playing in hardcore and emo bands be...

More often stupefying than sedative, but more emotional than heady, Tranquilizer gives itself over to the slipperiness of time.

We caught up with Hatchie to talk about intimacy, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, and other inspirations behind her new album Liquorice.

EUSEXUA Afterglow doesn't dim so much as continue to ride the high of the original, which also arrives reimagined.

We caught up with Austra to talk abou Ray of Light, the five stages of grief, and other inspirations behind her new album Chin Up Buttercup.

We caught up with runo plum to talk about growing up in Minnesota, the heartbreak that inspired her debut album, and more.

We caught up with Westerman to talk about the Athens heat, Robby Müller's cinematography, and other inspirations behind his new album.

Stella Donnelly had to resist the urge to turn ‘Year of Trouble’, the piano ballad that anchors her new album Love and Fortune, into a Robyn-esque moment of dancefloor melancholy. She almost took it o...

Discover the best songs of October 2025, featuring tracks by Rosalía, Hatchie, Sugar, Westerman, Oklou, and more.

Backed by MJ Lenderman and Brad Cook, the Crutchfield sisters' return is as warm and easygoing as it is thorny and subtly miraculous.

Eliza McLamb is a singer-songwriter who grew up in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. She was a student at George Washington University when the pandemic forced her to move back to her childhood home, which...

Beneath its big, thumping beats, Deadbeat is a portrait of man spiraling that feels oddly vacuous, vast, and repetitive.

bar italia's approach on Some Like It Hot is still a predominantly cheeky, spiky, and infectious, but it finds the trio at a crossroads.

Douglas Dulgarian has a phrase for every piece of food that just doesn’t taste like it’s been sold: “Disney bread.” It comes up on ‘trainers’, an early standout from They Are Gutting a Body of Water’s...

We caught up with Jay Som to talk about Jimmy Eat World’s Bleed American, the O.C. soundtrack, and other inspirations behind her new album.

We caught up with Flock of Dimes to talk about the Yamaha FG75, Björk’s Vespertine, Altadena, and other inspirations behind her new album.

We caught up with bloodsports to talk about their earliest musical influences, moving to New York, making Anything Can Be a Hammer, and more.

The Antlers’ new album, Blight, widens the scope of Peter Silberman’s songwriting by reckoning with environmental catastrophe, taking cues from a range of science fiction media. But it begins in a hom...

Hannah Frances is a Vermont-based vocalist, songwriter, and dancer with roots from Chicago. Her fusion of avant-folk, progressive rock, and jazz can be traced all the way back to 2018’s White Buffalo,...

. There is a tight, smart, tender pop record hidden in there, but The Life of a Showgirl feels perfunctory and terminally front-loaded.

The title of Agriculture’s astounding new album is lifted from the statement that’s printed onto their T-shirts: “I love the spiritual sound of ecstatic black metal by the band Agriculture.” On the fo...

Getting Killed wastes no time pointing to the carnage all around while spending most of it in a fervid, ludicrous freefall.

We caught up with Scarlet Rae to talk about her earliest musical inspirations, her songwriting process, making No Heavy Goodbyes, and more.

Total Wife is the experimental shoegaze duo of composer/producer Luna Kupper and lyricist/vocalist Ash Richter, who have been friends since high school. Having formed the band in 2016, they moved from...

Singing with quietly blazing conviction, Joan Shelley delivers another album of easygoing, nuanced, endlessly hummable tunes.

Feeding off the gnarly, blazing energy of its predecessor, Bleeds is a relentless tangle of funny, tragic, beautiful stories.

We caught up with Asher White to talk about living in Providence, the gulf between conceptualizing and executing ideas, and more.