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Florry
On its third album, the country-rock group rips through a set of free-spirited barnstormers with such ease and joy that even its tales of raw feelings and perpetual malaise feel uplifting.
Caveman Wakes Up
Friendship
On its fifth album of ramshackle Americana, the Philadelphia group finds revelation in the humdrum details of everyday life, turning weary non sequiturs into anthems for the downwardly mobile.
Quit to Play Chess
Cola Boyy
In a world that often refuses to see disabled people as all the things that disco represents—carefree, exuberant, sexy—the late California musician’s joyful final album is a necessary corrective.
Possession
Ty Segall
Wrapping up a run of mercurial stylistic gambits, the So Cal garage rocker settles into back-to-basics psych and stadium rock on a record packed with feel-good anthems.
DAISY
rusowsky
The most reclusive member of the Spanish collective Rusia-IDK shines on a debut that’s as freakishly fun as it is sincere.
Instant Holograms on Metal Film
StereolabThe Groop’s first album in 15 years sounds like the Platonic ideal of a Stereolab album: cerebral, slippery, playful, and defiant.I’m the Problem
Morgan WallenThe country star’s fourth album stretches out over an absurd and needless two hours. But there’s an alluring thread of paranoia and fatalism hidden among the filler.Pink Elephant
Arcade FireArcade Fire’s seventh album is a too-careful, too-canny exercise in restraint. It lacks the soul and spirit the band is known for.Even in Arcadia
Sleep TokenThe masked, anonymous UK quartet might be the biggest metal band in a generation—yet the group’s laborious, watered-down fusion of pop, rap, and djent amounts to very little.Sincerely,
Kali UchisThe singer-songwriter’s new album is a phantasmagoria of pleasure—the perfect complement to her talent for keeping her cool.EUSEXUA
FKA twigsBest New AlbumTwigs’ third album brings club music into her sensual, supernatural world. It’s a masterful pop-star moment for the artist.Los Thuthanaka
Los ThuthanakaBest New AlbumIn siblings Chuquimamani-Condori and Joshua Chuquimia Crampton’s dense, elaborate thicket of sound, traditional genres and ancestral wisdom coexist with digital ephemera and rapturous noise.
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