While The Singer in My Band may not be the out-of-the-blue surprise that album was for many, it shares the feeling of a generational talent coming into his own. Someday, other people will sing these songs, but now it's Amos' turn

Alternating between club tracks and downtempo songs, mostly featuring guests, Distance in Static is a well-paced journey that expertly plays with tension and release

Their most fine-tuned and sonically rich album to date, with 12 more fantastically catchy and emotionally turbulent songs in the style they’ve been perfecting along the way

The firepower Matt Pike brought to Sleep's seminal recordings is noticeably absent, but rather than replace it, Cisneros and company chose to embrace a more celestial, perhaps age-appropriate approach to getting ripped

It's a true delight that Dexys Midnight Runners are back to reclaim their place in the pop music firmament and LOVE is nothing less than a late career highlight that pales not at all when held up to their early work

He's got a lot on his mind: loss, grief, growing up, and becoming a parent himself. Matching the prodigious musical ability that has been apparent all along is one of his best collections of songs to date

Overall, Gotta Get Out feels more like what used to be categorized as "alternative rock" - an unspecified amalgamation of anything that felt exciting and "other" in the 1990s - than the youthful, unfettered punk that marked their swift rise

Nearly a quarter-century after Turn on the Bright Lights, the lived experience Interpol brings to This Mirror Weighs a Ton lets them touch on heavy feelings lightly - and adds twists that keep their steady path from feeling too predictable

They never attempt to reinvent the wheel, but they spin the wheel they themselves invented in enough new directions to keep things interesting. Mainly, There Near finds the band keeping on doing the marvelous things they’ve been doing all along

The Gold album is a blast from the past that could work as a reset and propel the band to make more records as stripped-down, brutal, and real as this

Co-produced with frequent collaborators Ben Chapoteau-Katz and Andrew Lappin, along with appearances from other musicians including Cibo Matto's Yuka Honda, the album often feels dreamier and more nebulous than other L'Rain albums

A wonderful testament to following ideas and feelings wherever they lead

Thrasher is an emotional ride, one where you crack a wistful smile through the tears, and a welcome road for Flowers to travel as he takes another step into his past in order to grow in the future

The final track "You Could Have Died There on the Dancefloor" cuts off abruptly, ending the record at around the 30-minute mark and leaving the impression that they've got gas in the tank and a lot more to say, for now It Goes On is certainly enough

Temple Songs is quietly confident and infused with the strong poetic sense that marks all of Veirs' best work. That she no longer employs a producer to pull it all together is merely a sign of her growth and maturation as an artist

For anyone who's had to deal with a hard breakup, DOOMED! is easily Open Mike Eagle's most relatable work

Produced by Justin Meldal-Johnsen (Nine Inch Nails, Beck, St. Vincent), the resulting 11-song set is a louder, more irritated, more confrontational one

It's a mercurial group of songs indicative of the songwriters' strategy, but the album still finds through lines in its heartfelt songwriting and warm, dreamy textures

There's a lot to be said for capturing inspiration while it's still raw, especially when it sounds as inquisitive and invigorated as Music, Fashion, Film

It never resorts to heavy-handedness in conveying just how serious the days that it was made felt to Ford, and somehow transforms a life-shaking brush with a potentially fatal illness into something uplifting. At times, Ford even miraculously pulls joy and understanding from the horrors that inspired these songs