Let’s face it, there’s nothing particularly subtle about Holy Fuck. From that firewall-jousting moniker to the stomach-crunching sounds emitting from their back catalogue, the Toronto ensemble have rarely been the type of band you can just ignore.

Preacher is adapted from the Vertigo Comics series of the same name. We might well be in a golden age of television adaptations of other properties: for instance, Game of Thrones, The Walking Dead, and, recently, The Magicians. While it’s hard to extrapolate from a pilot whether Preacher will eventually reach a similar critical or popular success as those franchises, it’s certainly off to a very strong start.

I was recently trying to describe LUH‘s excellent debut album, Spiritual Songs for Lovers to Sing, to a coworker, and he asked what kind of music the band plays. Even after several listens, I was a little baffled: “Rock, sort of… but with mostly electronic instrumentation? I think?”

Trashcan Sinatras are not what one might call prolific. After the eight-year gap between 1996’s long out-of-print A Happy Pocket and 2004’s career zenith Weightlifting, it took five years for 2009’s In the Music to emerge.

Welcome to Happiness doesn’t consistently deliver on the title, but it has its moments.

Crime Cutz, the latest from Holy Ghost!, is a four-track EP that strongly showcases the nu-disco side of the New York City indie dance duo. The title track fluctuates between a Giorgio Moroder synth-based ‘70s concoction and the ‘80s synth pop of Nu Shooz’s frothy smash, “I Can’t Wait,” whose durability has outlasted that of its creators.

Pervert Park is a rare and brutally honest exploration of one of society’s most detested elements.

Initially, the absorbing textures of Under the Sun seem to belie Mark Pritchard‘s standing as a dance music icon. Since the early ‘90s, the British-born, Australian-dwelling producer has played an instrumental part in bringing beats of all shapes and sizes to the masses.

We The People: The Market Basket Effect documents a rare case in American society where the will of its common people prevailed.