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Death Cab For Cutie  I Built You A Tower

I Built You a Tower doesn’t stand as a tower on its own within the Death Cab catalogue, but it offers enough memorable moments to give both longtime fans and newcomers something to enjoy Spill Magazine

Lizzo  Bitch

The piano on “A Toast” is the sound of someone who has stopped trying to convince the room. The rest of the record is the sound of someone who has not, quite, decided whether to trust that yet Beats Per Minute

Widowspeak  Roses Rouge Ecomix

The band's seventh album traffics in the nostalgic, atmospheric indie-pop it does best Paste Magazine

Vince Staples  Cry Baby

After a run of similar-sounding introspective records molded primarily by Def Jam’s concerns about keeping him hip hop, Cry Baby marks a breakaway from the norm for Vince Staples. It may not be punk, precisely, but it certainly rhymes Spectrum Culture

Bleachers  Everyone For Ten Minutes

Everyone for Ten Minutes is enjoyable if you’ve ever grooved along to “Rosalita” or “Pink Houses.” However, Antonoff struggles to improve on what he’s already done, by himself or otherwise Spectrum Culture

Violet Grohl  Be Sweet To Me

If Violet Grohl can solidify a band and push herself a little, she should become an exciting artist to watch Spectrum Culture

Death Cab For Cutie  I Built You A Tower

No sensible person wishes anyone else to go through heartbreak, but if it leads to Death Cab for Cutie album number 12, let the pain and poetry commence God Is In The TV

Vince Staples  Cry Baby

Cry Baby is Vince Staples' most focused and concentrated work in recent memory. Not one to miss as the uncomfortable truths ring out like war cries The Skinny

Widowspeak  Roses Rouge Ecomix

If it’s not a return to their earliest sound, it does capture a carefree attitude. It’s far from the sound of a band at a crossroads, this is some of the most urgent music of their career The Line Of Best Fit

of Montreal  Aethermead

Kevin Barnes’ 20th album is, once again, inspired by a breakup, but the drab music lacks the personality and vision of their best work Pitchfork

Modest Mouse   An Eraser And A Maze

There’s enough here to suggest they’ve got another all-timer in them, and they’re pretty darn close to pulling it off No Ripcord

Death Cab For Cutie  I Built You A Tower

A record about coming to terms with the end of a relationship. It’s not about finding happiness or total resolution—hopefully, Gibbard finds this in his near future. Until then, I hope he and his bandmates can enjoy a well-earned victory lap after producing their best work in two decades No Ripcord

Death Cab For Cutie  I Built You A Tower

Latest album from Ben Gibbard and co harks back to the band's glory days and is a welcome return to form musicOMH

Widowspeak  Roses Rouge Ecomix

The duo’s seventh album is a paean to romance, filled with ethereal indie-rock songs where love and daydreaming are an escape from the daily grind Pitchfork

Tara Clerkin Trio  Somewhere Good

The result is a sense of dreamlike disorientation, terrible events unfolding in a state of divine, fragile calm. Print edition only Mojo