Lars Gotrich

After a few promising EPs of glammed-up garage-punk, the Chicago band is set to release Errors, its spastic and ridiculously fun debut full-length.

The North Texas trio reaches across humankind with a body-rattling, desert-swept heft. Watch a gorgeous black-and-white video for The Angelus' brooding and beautiful track.

Chuck Johnson's best known for his hypnotic, yet lyrical solo guitar work, but for his new record, Balsams, Johnson meditates on the lush ambiance of the pedal steel.

The Holy Circle makes dark synth-pop that's velvet to the touch, and a sonic saw blade to the core.

Downtown Boys makes it clear from the outset of Cost Of Living, the Providence punk band's debut for Sub Pop: "A wall is a wall / A wall is just a wall / And nothing more at all."

The emo band imagines a Japanese character missing home while temporarily living in small-town Central Illinois.

Johnny Jewel and crew play the dreamy, codeine-soaked synth-pop song in front of the Black Lodge's red curtains.

The U.K. producer fully falls into the ambient goo on these two new tracks, as alien synths whisper and stir to a close encounter of another kind.

This is spastic dance music for rock 'n' roll deviants, a mad dogpile of shredded Pere Ubu nerves and a little bit of Sonny Sharrock skronk-punk.

As Birmingham punks revved up by the hot-damn hallelujah of Southern rock, the band confronts white privilege and the normalization of sociopolitical power with sharp yet loving critique.

With this gloriously fun mash-up of Osbourne's "Crazy Train" and Earth, Wind & Fire's guaranteed-to-get-you-the-dancefloor jam "September," the Prince of Darkness goes off the rails on a disco train.

As Mellow Diamond, Leppin builds elegantly somber songs from a pedal board of effects and loops. American God was written and recorded during a fraught election and its fallout.

The antagonistic Portland noise musician turns to the deepest recesses of dreams for a darkly shimmering set of ambient music.

Perry's new album will feature "Chained To The Rhythm" and the Migos collaboration "Bon Appétit."

This is truly visual music, and a rare case in which one enhances the other.

Jane Weaver takes her psychedelic-pop song "Did You See Butterflies?" to a remote part of Finland with 16mm film.

Five years past the much-beloved Threads, Now, Now returns as a duo. Hear the heart-throbbing pop song with a karaoke-bar blast radius.

"Beginning Of Winter" is built around delay guitar loop that feels like it's always been and always will be.

For a band built on short doses, the debut album Need To Feel Your Love is Sheer Mag's chance to spit a little polish on its boots, but just enough to keep the scuff.

The eight-minute "Folder" finds the nook between Joy Division and NEU!, Søren Gade howling over a frenetic, repetitive riff that can shake the bones out of your body.