If the past six months have taught us anything, it’s that life can change on a dime.
Soon after telling her father and mother, both of them died, within two months of one another.
singer Adrianne Lenker roars) is easily the most joyous, uninhibited thing the group has done.
Angel Olsen, ‘Big Time’.Jagjaguwar
Eve takes a bite of the apple.
1 in the U.K. blew the cobwebs off a moribund genre dominated by corpo-rock and tired retro revivalists.
In the epic journey that follows, Rosalia refuses to be pinned down.
Big Thief, ‘Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You’.4AD
When it’s just Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood with jazz drummer Tom Skinner, basically.
(If there’s any justice,“Is your muffin buttered?
“will go down in rhetorical-question history.)
FKA twigs, ‘Caprisongs’.Atlantic
Fontaines D.C., ‘Skinty Fia’.Partisan Records
Leikeli47, ‘Shape Up’.RCA
Mitski, ‘Laurel Hell’.Dead Oceans
Pusha T, ‘It’s Almost Dry’.G.O.O.D. Music
Rosalía, ‘Motomami’.Columbia
The Smile, ‘A Light for Attracting Attention’.XL Recordings
Wet Leg, ‘Wet Leg’.Domino Record Co
