By the release of Rainbow in 1999, Mariah Carey had charted a winning path to success on her own terms.

Twenty years is a long time in music, yet in the case of TV on the Radio it’s only enhanced their legacy.

Karate have been away for quite some time. Seventeen years is one hell of a hiatus.

Sweden’s Girl Scout have established themselves as musicians par excellence—not that surprising, given their jazz-student roots—but they’ve also mastered the art of crafting soaring, chiming indie anthems that feel vulnerable, and heartbreakingly beautiful.

Perverts is a quietly devastating body of work from a multi-instrumentalist and vocalist whose grasp of tone, pacing, and production lends almost unbearable emotional weight to what always promised to be an intense musical experience.

Los Angeles hardcore stalwarts Touché Amoré inject optimism into established themes on the band’s first release since 2020’s Lament.

Night Palace, Mount Eerie’s eleventh studio album and Phil Elverum’s first under that name since 2018’s Now Only, feels like a grand return to the wide-ranging and adventurous spirit of Elverum’s seminal 2001 classic as The Microphones, The Glow Pt. 2.

The Softies (duo of Rose Melberg and Jen Sbragia) are nestled in the comfort of best friendship and the unapologetic honesty it nurtures.

On Honey, Dan Snaith returns under his Caribou moniker with a sound that frequently recalls the energy and brightness of his Daphni project.