It looks like Breathe Owl Breathe have finally decided to grow up. Here, on album number six, the Michigan-based trio have replaced the idiosyncrasies of past records with a tonal consistency that runs throughout these 10 folk-pop strains.

Cupid Deluxe finds singer/songwriter/producer Dev Hynes back under the name Blood Orange, following his 2011 debut with this moniker, Coastal Grooves, and two albums as Lightspeed Champion. As Hynes has crossed professional paths for recordings over the past few years with The Chemical Brothers, Florence and the Machine, and Solange Knowles, to name a few, it’s almost surprising that there’s been time for his own material.

Carey Mercer and (revolving) crew return with a self-released batch of tunes. First things first: Mercer was diagnosed with throat cancer just after receiving the final mixes, and frankly it’s tough to put that out of your mind while listening.

Welsh songwriter Cate Le Bon returns, less than two years removed from her triumphant Cyrk. There’s a dreamy, gauzy feel in many of the record’s 10 tracks; Le Bon’s recent relocation to sunny California—Mug Museum was recorded in Los Angeles—could have a lot to do with it.

Upon the release of 2011’s Ravedeath, 1972, the plaudits extended to Tim Hecker seemed to know no end.

I don’t know if anyone aside from Death Cab for Cutie completists was really demanding a deluxe reissue of Transatlanticism, but here we are with one anyway, having entered the era in which nearly every record gets a reissue for every milestone.

If you’re a vinyl collector, as I suspect a good number of Under the Radar readers are, then the 12” release of Girls Names’ new EP will set you back $11: perfectly reasonable, until you consider that this only gets you one new track (“Third Uncle”) and a couple of needless B-side-worthy remixes.

The entirety of Connan Mockasin‘s second album, Caramel, sounds like it was recorded underwater—backwards. This is psychedelic pop at its boldest, and Mockasin puts his emphasis on the first half of that term.

The appeal of Unknown Mortal Orchestra—essentially the project of singer/songwriter Ruban Nielson—is largely his expertise as a chemist; on the LP II earlier this year he showed off his ability to use a range of sounds, styles, and influences as elements to cook up a very decent album.