It’s fair to say that since 2012’s Silver Age, Bob Mould has been on quite a roll. 2014’s heavier, darker Beauty and Ruin upped the ante even further and now he’s back again with Patch the Sky.

Hutch Harris and crew could probably turn out new Thermals records every few years without much difficulty. It’s not a backhanded compliment; Thermals records are, by and large, pretty effortlessly consistent.

The Joy Formidable continue on their single-minded path toward sheer scale, this time around taking things a little more slowly in the studio. In fact, the band started by building a studio, The Red Brick, in their native Wales, then spent 12 months recording the album themselves.

Hats off to James for really stretching out and experimenting on their latest offering. They’ve been known for such daring before, on Wah-Wah, B-sides, and in their live performances.

Before he was old enough to drink, Cullen Omori was already responsible for some of the most irresistible glam rock this side of glitter paradise.

Throughout his career, Damien Jurado has proven to be a quite versatile, eclectic, and prolific songwriter. His songs excel thanks to his raw and reflective lyrics and unmistakable singing voice.

POLIÇA has never been one to paint pop music by numbers, and United Crushers is no exception. The follow-up to 2013’s critically acclaimed Shulamith, it continues along its predecessor’s path into the darkest electronic recesses of Channy Leaneagh’s psyche.

Underworld have always hid a decidedly punk aesthetic beneath their crunching electronics. While hardly as confrontational as the all-gobbing, safety-pin-punctured acts of the late 1970s, Karl Hyde and Rick Smith have tended to take a similar sneering look at the subcultures around them, never afraid to call out bullshit over their propulsive techno throbs.

Full Circle, the debut album from London-based trio, HÆLOS, is a lake at nighttime-you have no way of knowing how deep it is until you wade in. Once you plunge beneath the warm water’s surface, you realize this is a world you have rarely experienced before.