There are bands that come and go, and then there are those that carve their own unique path, leaving an indelible mark on the heart of listeners. Future Islands are unquestionably of the latter. On their seventh album, the Baltimore band continues to hone its robustly unique style seemingly removed from the tumble and churn of contemporary pop trends.

Opening with the country leanings of its title track before careening into the Tropicália-tinged "They Sold My Home To Build A Skyscraper”, on through to the hymnal, hopeful "Cover Up The Cover Up" and then coming full circle with the defiant "I’ll Keep Singing", Sadness Sets Me Free exalts the power of music to heal on a universal scale.

The songs on Polaroid Lovers feature co-writes with Daniel Tashian (producer of the album who previously collaborated with Kacey Musgraves on Golden Hour), Ruston Kelly, and Natalie Hemby. Conceived in a period of so much change, the album finds Jarosz, now 32, reflecting on her childhood, past loves, and previous versions of herself.

The Radiohead offshoot continues to venture further out there on its second release. With strings and psychedelia added to the mix, Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood’s ever-evolving side project is a kaleidoscopic, mind-altering pronouncement, and feels as dynamic now as their day job.

From the ashes of Swedish Death Metal progenitors Cromlech, Carnal Savagery return to take over the world with their most accomplished album to date. Into The Abysmal Void delivers 11 new corpse rousing songs filled with de-fleshing Gothenburg melody, writhing Death Metal groove and enough skull cracking brutality to reanimate the undead!

13 brand-new Static-X songs containing the final vocal performances & musical compositions of founding vocalist Wayne Static, along with the original Wisconsin Death Trip lineup featuring Tony Campos (bass), Koichi Fukuda (guitars) and Ken Jay (drums). Produced by the band’s current vocalist/guitarist Xer0 and mixed/mastered by long-time collaborator Ulrich Wild.

Given unprecedented access to the Smithsonian archive and encouraged to repurpose the source material, Matmos conure an album that illuminates the radical, inquisitive, and poetic aspects of the original recordings, extracting the latent moments of creative revelation on records intended primarily for the backroom shelves of universities and libraries.

This version of K-Poppers NCT 127’s Winter special single “Be There For Me” comprises a total of three songs, including the title track of the same name, “Home Alone”, and “White Lie”. Contents of the album include House Folding Pack, Booklet, Mini CD, Postcard, Standing Ornament and Photocard.

The Philadelphia punk legends' seventh album captures their distinctive live energy, resulting in a sound that's both rich, raw, and complementary to the group's increasingly prismatic songwriting approach. More than 15 years in, The Menzingers are still holding their listeners square in the immediate present with Some Of It Was True documenting that power in thrilling fashion.

Green Day is not your savior. But the spirit of rock n roll might be. And as the greatest punk band alive, they’re the loudest vessel we have… to give it a shot. The enduring power trio -- Billie Joe Armstrong, Tré Cool & Mike Dirnt -- are ready to flip off the famous, stupid and contagious, by putting a mirror to the present tense like only they can, with Saviors.

Saxon meet and exceed expectations on their 24th studio release, a superlative British Heavy Metal classic which strides the perfect line between confident, current power, and gloriously irreverent flexing of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal muscle which the band co-created. It’s the heavyweight’s most definitive statement in years.

On the surface, Little Rope's ten songs veer from spare to anthemic, catchy to deliberately hard-turning. It’s perhaps the most complex arrangements of any Sleater-Kinney record, and a lyrical and emotional compass pointed firmly in the direction of something both liberating and terrifying: the sense that only way to gain control is to let it go.

After years of escapist escapades, the bars on Quaranta are diaristic in a distinctly Danny Brown way. There’s no shortage of his typical blitzing verses over angular, mesmerizing production from some of his oldest collaborators including Quelle Chris, Paul White & SKYWLKR, but the Alchemist produced “Tantor” is just the kind of cold-steel contradistinction which he’s been celebrated throughout his career.

Marking Uchis’ striking return to Spanish-language music, Orquídeas features a superstar lineup with KAROL G, Peso Pluma, El Alfa, and JT. Inspired by the sensual allure of Colombia’s national flower, the orchid, Orquídeas traverses multiple Latin genres including reggaeton, dembow, bolero and salsa furthering Uchis’ connection to her Colombian roots.

Marking Uchis’ striking return to Spanish-language music, Orquídeas features a superstar lineup with KAROL G, Peso Pluma, El Alfa, and JT. Inspired by the sensual allure of Colombia’s national flower, the orchid, Orquídeas traverses multiple Latin genres including reggaeton, dembow, bolero and salsa furthering Uchis’ connection to her Colombian roots.

The metalcore heavyweights take their audience on a journey through the seasons of life and the rollercoaster of human existence. With songs that speak openly and honestly about anxiety, depression, self-belief, love and identity, The Beautiful Dark Life represents Atreyu's most universal and important songwriting to date.

More than 20 years in the making, i/o is Gabriel’s first album of new material since 2002’s Up. Twelve tracks of grace, gravity and great beauty that provide welcome confirmation of not only Peter’s ongoing ability to write stop-you-in-your-tracks songs but also of that thrilling voice, still perfectly, delightfully intact.

"The idea of retirement is nowhere in my comprehension," says Ann Wilson. Good thing, too, because the Heart frontwoman sounds way too fired up to quit on her excellent new solo album, Another Door— a powerful dispatch from a storied artist who's come back from the brink and still has a lot more living to do.