It’s not that Silver/Lead is a bad record. It’s not. But what is interesting about it—the atmospheric sounds and rhythms—are relegated to the background, if there at all, and then to only certain sections of songs.

Herein, Margaret Chardiet celebrates a decade of her solo noise/industrial project’s noxious squall with an album that seeks to facilitate the listener’s mind transcending their physical body.

Concrete Desert is an unexpected, yet welcome, collaboration by two esteemed veterans in their respective fields.

Beans may’ve receded to the recesses of memory during his half-decade hiatus, but don’t sleep on this triple album comeback coinciding with the release of his first novel, Die Tonight.

Recorded live over two days in London, In The Same Room is the glowing starter sparks of Domino Documents, Domino Records’ new imprint, its documentary-on-sound homage to music’s radio-era grainy golden years smartly dressed into impeccably produced live-cut studio recordings.

Expecting the unexpected can work in the favor of bands like Radiohead, U2, and R.E.M. They build up a reputation for trendy experimentalism that is met with enthusiastic anticipation by their fanbase.

It’s hard to figure out the duo of Alison Goldfrapp and Will Gregory, known simply as Goldfrapp. It’s also hard not to like them.

With Undertow, Michigan lifers Wolf Eyes turn in their best in a decade, scraping off past aural gunk to reveal an icy unease owing as much to Terje Rypdal and Ligeti as to their cornerstone industrial forebears.

For his new project, the ever-prolific Chaz Bundick, of Toro Y Moi fame, has teamed up with The Mattson 2, a duo of brothers that play freewheeling instrumental psych-rock.