Vieux Farka Touré & Khruangbin — Ali

An accomplished musician in his own right, Vieux Farka Touré reimagines eight of his late father’s songs on one of the year’s hidden gems, Ali....

Marcus Mumford — (self-titled)

The Marcus Mumford of (self-titled) bears little resemblance to the version that exists on Mumford and Sons’ Sigh No More and Babel. Trading in raucous...

Death Cab For Cutie — Asphalt Meadows

With Asphalt Meadows, Death Cab For Cutie slaps together sounds and ideas from a few different eras in an attempt to weave Ben Gibbards’s emotive...

The Afghan Whigs — How Do You Burn?

With their first album in nearly five years, How Do You Burn? finds Greg Dulli and The Afghan Whigs wearing yet another musical costume pulled...

Two Door Cinema Club — Keep On Smiling

Two Door Cinema Club’s most popular songs have always pulled away from the band’s rock moorings and towards the waters of dance and electronica, but...

SOHN — Trust

As SOHN becomes more confident in his ability to sing and write taut, simple-but-effective songs, he drifts further away from his electronica-heavy roots. Tremors is...

Muse — Will of the People

Stepping away from the futuristic synth-driven epic Simulation Theory, Muse cobbles together a pastiche of their earlier styles to deliver an album filled with melodies...

Ingrid Andress — Good Person

Following her critically acclaimed debut Lady Like, singer-songwriter Ingrid Andress again plies her version of pop-country charm on sophomore effort Good Person. Without changing much...

Dirty Heads — Midnight Control

After a successful foray into the cinematic western-tinged music of 2019’s Super Moon, Dirty Heads fall back into more comfortable oceanside sounds on the predictable,...