Laura Snapes
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Alynda Lee Segarra tells NPR her new song is about "people of color claiming their space and their right to exist." It's dedicated to the protesters at Standing Rock and Peñuelas, Puerto Rico.
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With her softly echoing guitar and slight strings, Byrne channels some ancient wavelength, then suddenly sticks a pin in the universal.
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Frontwoman Cosima Jaala tries and fails to leave someone in a proggy freakout of a song about feeling all kinds of different ways at once.
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To celebrate new reissues of his work, friends, fans and peers share favorite songs and memories of the musician whose influence on American Primitive Guitar has grown to monumental heights.
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These 11 tracks creep up on you, as Mitski Miyawaki's coiled melodies suddenly explode into cavernous freak-outs or build to a crescendo of unbearable catharsis.
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The Scottish pop band has fun on Every Open Eye, but its disco ball is tiled with galvanized steel. The whole album fizzes with jolting, unapologetic electricity.