Ishmael Butler explores the cosmos within on a shadowy and uncharacteristically introspective new album

Patching in audio logos and advertising dialog without interrupting the dreamlike sampledelic flow, the Australian band’s new album summons nostalgia for the era of truly mass media

The London pop singer mines the pitfalls of young womanhood for dramedy on her sleeker, more polished second record, finding a sweet spot where goofy melodrama and emotional realism meet

Balances profound cynicism and genuine beauty as its ice-hearted stadium rock grows to darkly apocalyptic proportions

A deep longing aches at the core of the Indianapolis indie-pop group’s music, making good on the bittersweet promise of twee at its most heartfelt

The pop star’s fourth album explores the cracks between the hits, the climaxes, and the comedowns. When he steps off the dancefloor, he finds a looser and more liberated sound

Torn between Texas and Topanga but fully herself, the songwriter sounds at home in the outlaw country idiom on an intimate, searching new record produced by Shooter Jennings

The latest album from the Scottish band settles into pleasant but predictable folk-rock doldrums

The London band wastes a great title on a second album of garish agit-rave punk that’s larded with references and desperately short on ideas

With new songs that rank among his very best, the Geese frontman’s solo live album is an exquisite rendering of a had-to-be-there night and a work of real-time mythmaking

The pop singer’s dynamic but uneven third record provides a portrait of semi-reformed adulthood, powered mostly by her sheer charisma and impressive voice

The indie rock songwriter’s latest album is menacing and ambitious, overflowing with quotable lyrics and the feverish energy of something about to fall apart

You can check out but you’ll never leave the Detroit post-punks’ new concept album, which grimly parodies the United States’ ugliest realities as odious guests at a cursed hotel

Tinashe’s eighth album is her best and bravest yet: more ambitious, more focused, and effortlessly in touch with the zeitgeist. It’s the best pop album of the year

The Australian singer-songwriter surrenders to the idea of change, filling her warm, reassuring songs with poignant imagery and a greater sense of perspective

The retro R&B singer surrenders to the groove on a versatile and rhythmic new album that keeps the momentum going without ever really getting anywhere

The South African-born country singer’s latest album is a hell-and-back tale of addiction and redemption. But where other artists might opt for austerity, Peck goes all in on his usual pomp

Casting a wide collaborative net across the world of heavy music, the Portland musician captures a newfound sense of momentum, even optimism, in her doomy, downcast songwriting

The Midwest indie rock band returns with a new wave-influenced album that explores our innate desire to understand and be understood

Miley Cyrus has a distinctive voice, outsize charisma, and an infamous weird streak, but her short, uninspired new album sounds dated on arrival