The minimal acoustic music of My Bubba, the Scandinavian duo of roommates-turned-bandmates My Larsdotter and Guðbjörg (Bubba) Tómasdóttir, takes an even sparser turn on Big Bad Good.

As Hold/Still‘s penultimate track shakes off its bewildering, oddball electronics and settles into a sinister rhythmic strut, all vocalist Ben Shemie can do is croon the track’s title: “Nobody can save me now.”

Maybe hearing Lucius’ “Turn It Around” on that one Samsung commercial 50 times around when the Super Bowl was broadcast reminded you of what an out-of-this-world, bona fide jam it was, and just how little it had to do with smartphones or football.

Ten years and five full-lengths in, The Coathangers play midsized clubs, but their snotty denim-punk would still feel at home in your city’s finest DIY basements and other assorted ne’er-do-well hangouts.

Only a few months after releasing an album with his world music collective Fool’s Gold, lead singer Luke Top‘s is back with his solo debut Suspect Highs, a surprising step back from the vibrant howls of his best-known project.

The emergence of Teleman in 2014 felt like something to get excited about. The U.K. quartet’s stream of infectious early singles—including the sublime “Cristina”— pointed to something very special. Yet, while good, debut LP Breakfast was never able to capitalize on this early promise. In truth, it felt like a holding statement for something else.

There’s greater beauty in imagination than there is in information, and Cate Le Bon knows it. “Crab Day is an old holiday. Crab Day is a new holiday.

There is dream pop and then there is Starwalker. As you would expect from a band with that name—as you would expect from a collaboration between Bang Gang’s Barði Jóhannsson and Air’s Jean-Benoît Dunckel—this is music that seems to float on an elevated plane.

Now that budgets for films that reside in John Carpenter‘s wheelhouse have become all but extinct, the auteur behind iconic films like Halloween and Escape from New York has taken his side hustle as a film composer—and popularizer of the analog synth—into the spotlight.