Twin Peaks offer a multipack approach on Sweet ‘17 Singles, gamboling from influence to influence at the drop of a guitar pick on this collection of singles released two each month in the second half of 2017.

Transangelic Exodus is a record just as dramatic as its title. It is Ezra Furman’s seventh album, his second on Bella Union, and his first under a new band name. Ezra Furman’s Boy-Friends are dead: enter The Visions.

Scottish indie rockers Franz Ferdinand exploded onto the music scene with their global hit “Take Me Out” in 2004. In the 14 years since, they’ve released three albums, lost some popularity, and even lost founding member and keyboardist/guitarist Nick McCarthy.

Having taken their longest break between albums, the unbound Los Angeles noise rockers No Age have leapt back from the void, while simultaneously filling one. Shifting from under Sub Pop’s banner to Drag City for their fifth full-length, Randy Randall and Dean Spunt have picked up where they left off and taken off running, dealing a dispatch of radiant energy that feels timely.

Even though his heyday was almost two decades ago, Craig David still possesses the same elements that made him great, proved him a cut above his contemporaries, and the forger of new paths.

There’s always been a fragile air to Nate Lacy’s songwriting, and it continues to underpin Mimicking Birds as they cement their place as the preeminent Pacific Northwest musical environmentalists. The natural world fascinates Lacy, sending him off to his own Walden, the results infiltrating lyrics at every turn.

If you’re not familiar with neo-classical composer Steve Reich’s music, you should be. Experimenting with melding classical and electronic music since the ‘70s, he is known as one of the founders of the minimalist movement along with other well-known avant-garde artists such as Philip Glass and Terry Riley.

Peter and David Brewis of Field Music have always been singular in their knack for jangling melodies, disjointed rhythms and interweaving vocals.

When floods destroyed Suburban Homes Studio-which is ran by Hookworms’ MJ and birthed the band’s two previous studio albums—it was hard to imagine a third Hookworms studio LP ever coming to fruition. Two years later, the Leeds outfit return with undoubtedly their best effort to date.