Kevin Martin finally follows up 2008’s apocalyptic London Zoo with more thumping end-times fare.

For Hard Believer, Fink‘s sixth album proper, he turns to live + electronics expert producer Billy Bush (Garbage, Beck, Foster the People) to bring dimension to his minimalist, sometimes predictable sound.

Don’t let that ethereal organ at the beginning of “Assembly” fool you. Elephant isn’t Beach House even though it sometimes seems like they may want to be.

Movement‘s self-titled EP is an affair with darkness which brings little of note to light.

Here’s J Mascis with another batch of understated and partly unplugged tunes for Sub Pop. Mascis surprised everyone with the intimacy of 2011’s Several Shades of Why.

Last Weekend follows very closely in the footsteps of other family dramedies, in which various family members who are not compatible with one another are squeezed together in literal and metaphorical claustrophobia.

Shockingly, The Rentals’ first LP in 15 years may also be their best. Lost in Alphaville finds a happy medium between the heavy fuzz and Moog synths of the group’s 1995 debut, Return of The Rentals, and 1999’s over-stuffed and too-ambitious left-turnSeven More Minutes.

When Grumbling Fur released their Furrier debut three years ago there was little indication that they would soon be topping Album of the Year lists (well, one list at least) and collaborating with internationally-beloved musical superstars (well, The Charlatans’ Tim Burgess at least).

What Basement Jaxx presented to the world 15 years ago beginning with their debut, Remedy, is what today’s high profile dance music artists are fervently trying to capture. Seven albums down the line, Junto verifies that the British duo is still the leader in sketching the blueprint for house music.