Plants and Animals: Waltzed in From the Rumbling
After a four-year pause for reflection, the band is back as melodic, wistful, and alive with longing as ever.
Natasha Gatian
The Saint Johns: Dead of Night
The Saint Johns might not reinvent any wheels or blaze any trails, but there’s nothing wrong with making solid, country-inflected indie rock. Especially when this much talent and emotion goes into it.
The Anchoress: Confessions of a Romance Novelist
Like the medieval anchoresses from whom the artist takes her stage name, Davies carves out a niche for herself and steadfastly inhabits it.
All Them Witches: Dying Surfer Meets His Maker
For all its variety, this is a damn fine rock album, plain and simple.
Nigel Kennedy: The Four Seasons
This recording is endlessly surprising and sometimes delightful, cutting the Vivaldi classic to ribbons and reassembling it at will.
Okokon: Turkson Side
Okokon offers a layered exploration of electronic soundscapes.
British Sea Power: Sea of Brass
British Sea Power finds a way forward while pining for the past.
Swans: The Gate
Michael Gira’s lauded experimental rock group returns with an apocalyptic shriek.
Violence, Glee, Phantasmagoria: Gaiman’s ‘Neverwhere’
Readers familiar with Neil Gaiman’s dreamscapes will find new corners of Neverwhere in this new edition of the author’s seminal first novel.
Miracles of Modern Science: Mean Dreams
Mean Dreams is a thought experiment of an album, a set of possible answers to an unsolvable problem.
Elephant Revival: Sands of Now
Haunting and joyous, this is everything good folk music should be.
Roman à Clef: Abandonware
Roman à Clef quietly charms and shatters with this evocative debut album.