The record is important work, and Piss emerges as a lasting, forward-leaning voice that will inspire

At 31 tracks in 52 minutes, it plays less like an album than like an evening of channel-surfing in 1998, with the remote in the hands of someone who has had a great deal of sugar

Count-ins from the recording sessions, bits of conversation, or things that sound like a tape being loaded throughout the record. These little intentional details add a rawness to the recordings that mirror the emotional vulnerability in his songwriting and vocals

As they fine-tune their stylistic evolution, the perfect balance is yet to be discovered

Live at Carnegie Hall inevitably calls back to the great artists who have graced that stage before him, though the pensiveness of the recording is equally impactful, capturing Cameron Winter staying true to his nature

Wolf makes music to dance to alone, while no one watches, or in front of everyone. Mud encapsulates the hope of figuring it all out with time

Commendable for its thematic ambitions and instrumental sharpness

Under all the rowdiness, Cancel Me (I’m Tired) gets to a place that makes room for sincerity. Fat Dog may have an unmarked path ahead, though they are more than willing to call the shots

This is a sugar rush with real feeling underneath, and I’m happy to take the dose

Gilla Band have earned their place as forebears and game-changers within the scene. Pugnello keeps that momentum going

The album is more eerie in tone than its predecessors, like a distant alarm sounding, trying to amplify the sounds we cannot hear

This is an artist widening her frame without losing her bite. It’s confident, a little wistful, and often loud in all the right places

Thank You may not always know when to stop, but it knows exactly what kind of record it wants to be and, more often than not, it gets there

It’s only been 3 years since Yard but hearing Slow Pulp now feels different, like they have traded their thrifted clothes for a trendier fashion. In “Red Car” Massey sings “I need a new start,” and that’s what Melodie feels like, a new beginning, a reintroduction

A stripped-down return to his folk-inspired roots that sounds familiar

Amos hasn’t stopped being restless. For once, he’s just found a reason to stay in one place for a while

It captures the specific, suffocating feeling of living through collapse better than almost anything else I’ve heard this year

Just when you think you’ve figured out where Badu and the Alchemist are taking you, another song changes the pace, the mood, or the rules

The Linda Lindas are a force that keeps getting louder with Gotta Get Out

Thank You may not always know when to stop, but it knows exactly what kind of record it wants to be and, more often than not, it gets there