On their tight, focused 12th set, the onetime hardcore punks lean into goth-rock and post-punk hero worship.
The Swedish composer, singer, and keyboardist shifts musical focus to embrace dark indie pop without sacrificing her doomy Goth aesthetic.
Bolstered by cleaner production and confident playing, the London trio's poetic, mischievous, raucous, and heartbroken songs take on new life.
Produced with Aaron Dessner, Justin Vernon, and Andrew Watt, a love of keyboards and the '90s informed the tunesmith's tender, pensive eighth solo LP.
A haunting masterwork of sparse acoustic demos that became a career standout.
The saxophonist returns to the trio format on this meditative, powerful set with Jason Moran and guitarist Marvin Sewell.
The Swede's raw, searching, often devastating 11th solo LP was recorded live, with heavy reverb and delay seeming to symbolize its inner conflict.
An intimate homemade portrait combining field recordings and acoustic instrumentation with electroacoustic processing.
The trippy full-length solo debut of Penelope Isle's Jack Wolter is often delicate, overstimulating, and fascinatingly otherworldly at once.
An intimate, finely rendered sophomore album from the British folk-pop stylist.
The electronic composer's enigmatic sixth album is enchanting and transporting.
Performances on Mozart's own clavichord seem to take one into his creative process.
Thrilling amalgamation of indie pop and rock styles -- from C-86 to shoegaze to lo-fi -- delivered with equal amounts of deftness and energy.
Instead of the prog and experimental inclinations of much of their 2020s output, here these indie giants return to power pop.
The second album from this frenetic indie rock band arranges a spectrum of familiar influences into new, engaging shapes.
Burning live date featuring the pianist's harmonically adventurous mid-'60s quintet.
Vivid performances of little-known orchestral works from later in Reger's career.
This artist achieves drama and even lushness in Scarlatti without heavy pianism.
A world-weary but purposeful second album from the singular avant-R&B singer, songwriter, and producer.
The duo underwent a hard reset and emerged with an album that's more experimental while dialing up the violent dreaminess and even venturing to the dancefloor.
Heartbroken yet hopeful, the follow-up to the Grammy-nominated Weird Faith serves as the stripped-bare final installment of a breakup trilogy.
The L.A. singer/songwriter's emotional third record reflects a personal sea change.
Boston area psych rockers return with one of the more clearly rendered albums of their triple-guitar attack sound.
This double-length compiles four EPs cut in live session with a range of players and mixes them together.
James Chapman creates an enchanting soundtrack to a half-remembered dark horror-fantasy film.
A sprawling avant-jazz-funk work assembled from sessions with players including Pete Cosey, John Medeski, and Greg Fox.
The British rocker teams up with the Black Keys' Dan Auerbach for a fuzztone-soaked, T. Rex-inspired sixth album.
The Mexico-based Chilean singer/songwriter, a big band, and special guests use jazz, soul, ranchera and/bolero to reclaim the title for feminist manifesto.
This revamped and partially re-recorded version of a previous Go-Kart Mozart album adds new vocals, more instruments, and is pop at its best.
A collection of three of the singer/songwriter's best albums plus a wealth of bonus tracks: demos, acoustic versions, Beatles covers, and more.
The Texas punk band take sonic detours into midtempo indie rock, jangling melancholy pop, and more introspective territory with positive results.
The Old 97's frontman sings with courage and trepidation as he ponders a life without making music.
Spanning rave-inspired anthems to long, dark nights of the soul, the group's sixth album is among their finest.
The Nile Rodgers-approved "discodelic" vocal group turns up the heat with an even more dancefloor-oriented third album.
The band's fourth album is jazz- and MPB-influenced easy listening that's never boring, instead it wraps the listener in a soft cloud of sound.
First released in 1994 and unavailable until Warp reissued it 31 years later, Tom Jenkinson's first effort is filled with stomping acid hardcore.
A highly energized and pleasure-seeking third album from singer, songwriter, and violinist Brittney Parks.
A master class in smart, evocative 1970s-style soft rock from Wilco members John Stirratt and Pat Sansone.
The legendary group return with a deeply felt, heavily nostalgic record that blends sounds from all eras, and it sounds like no other band.
The U.K. group's sophomore effort follows in its predecessor's bedazzled footsteps, delivering lusty thespian rock to the masses with wit, warmth, and swagger.
The band's third album delivers high-intensity hardcore, but also churning grunge, hard rock swagger, and even a couple of melody-adjacent songs.
Jonny Slut-compiled survey of the 2000s hipster club scene from electroclash to blog-house, plus a disc of classic new wave and post-punk.
Superbly performed and recorded Pärt performances, released in 2025 to mark the composer's 90th birthday.
Ten songs from the outlaw icon's archive of unreleased 1970s recordings capture him in strong, subtle form.
A sonically and lyrically rich follow-up to the MOBO nominee's 2023 debut, this draws more from her Caribbean heritage.