From promoter: ” Her best album yet.” – Rolling Stone Saint Cloud is an intimate journey through the places she’s been, filled with the people she’s loved.” Label: Merge Records Start w/ 2, 3, 4 FCC: Clean RIYL: Lucinda Williams, Angel Olsen, Big Thief, Courtney Barnett

From promoter: “Liverpool indie rock band Circa Waves illustrate the jarring, yet fascinating close proximity between immense sadness and happiness on their fourth studio album, Sad Happy. The two-part album features fourteen tracks that are equally split into happy and sad sides.” Label: PIAS Start w/ 1, 6, 8 FCC: 3, 4 RIYL: Sam Fender, Blossoms, Viola Beach

From promoter: “Nandi Rose is on her own again, and on ​The Caretaker​, the singer, songwriter and producer declares her fearlessness. ​The record ​is a statement of intent in high resolution, a deliberate move from the obscured, muted mystery of her previous work. An eleven-song journey through mind, memory and home, ​The Caretaker ​finds Rose astutely […]

From promoter: “Sorry’s 925 is an album to escape to. Together, best friends Asha Lorenz and Louis O’Bryen weave a dreamscape in which idyllic and hellish scenes intermingle, making you question what is real and what is make believe. Sleazy riffs rub up alongside hip-hop inspired beats, with tracks regularly flipping between neon-lit night time adventures […]

From promoter: “A collaboration between Sufjan and his stepfather Lowell in the spirit of music by Giorgio Moroder, Vangelis, Tangerine Dream, New Order and more 50% of proceeds go to COVID-19 food focused charities Label: Asthmatic Kitty Start w/ 2, 7, 16, 17, 18 FCC: Clean RIYL: Grizzly Bear, Fleet Foxes, Perfume Genius

From promoter:”New York based artist Porches mixes his rock-tuned synth-pop sound with new experimental productions to impart a more amorphous sound on his new album Ricky Music. The project from the DIY artist casts a personal, yet emotionally open feeling with 11 cracked-glass tracks.” Label: Domino Start w/ 1, 2, 11 FCC: 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10 […]

From promoter: “New York natives Hana and JJ are inspired by everything from Young Marble Giants to The Violent Femmes to Iggy Pop, Overcoats rooted this next chapter in electric guitar and punk energy culled from nearly two years on the road.” Label: Loma Vista Start w/ 2, 3, 6, 7 FCC: Clean RIYL: Sylvan Esso, Tegan & […]

From promoter: “The soul/R&B musician returns to country roots w/ help from Justin Vernon of Bon Iver, John Prine, Jenny Lewis & more!” Label: Joyful Noise Start w/ 1, 2, 6, 10 FCC: Clean RIYL: Ann Peebles, Mavis Staple

From promoter: “Anne Burch‘s If You’re Dreaming​ was tracked with producer Sam Evian in his home studio in the Catskill mountains of upstate New York. With recurring themes of isolation, weariness and longing, her songs deliver an emotional arc with a delicate but uncompromising execution. Burch’s intrinsically catchy songwriting dials down the urgency of her debut […]

From promoter: “As an artist Yves Tumor melds restraint and chaos, sometimes identified as making experimental noise but moving through ambient, dream-pop, and 90’s R&B sounds with fluidity and grace, grounded by searingly personal and evocative lyricism.” Label: Warp Records Start w/ 4, 5, 7 FCC: Clean RIYL: serpentwithfeet, Oneohtrix Point Never, Blood Orange

From promoter: While he’s perhaps best known for his own remarkable output—nine acclaimed studio albums that have prompted Rolling Stone to hail him a “folk hero” and The Guardian to praise him as “a maverick auteur who draws upon blues, folk, country and art-rock, and is equally adept within each genre”—Ward may be equally celebrated […]

From promoter: “GIRL SKIN‘s gentle folk songs benefit enormously from their soft chamber-pop bent, which helps an ambitious, sweeping quality to Sid Simons’ softly contemplative lyrics.” Label: Jullian Start w/ 1, 4, 8 FCC: Clean RIYL: Oasis, The Flaming Lips, The Style Council, Elliott Smith

From promoter: “This is the artist’s third LP, following 2018’s downtempo dream pop album Us. Influenced by music curated by her Honduran parents, Rodriguez was later on inspired by avant-pop artists like Bjork and Imogen Heap.” Label: Terrible Start w/ 2, 4, 7 FCC: 8 RIYL: Jay Som, Hatchie, Kilo Kish

From promoter: “Rising indie pop band Peach Pit put unique spins on their boisterous and heart-breakingly relatable sound on their latest release, You and Your Friends. ” Label: Columbia Start w/ 2, 4, 9 FCC: 1, 5, 10, 11 RIYL: Kid Bloom, Wallows, Vundabar

From promoter: “Alt-pop trio COIN releases their new album Dreamland today! The project brings to life COIN‘s most sonically adventurous yet emotionally direct songs to date, but also hold a memory map of all the places the globe-trotting band has travelled in the making of this album.” Label: AWAL Start w/ 1, 2, 4, 6, 9 FCC: Clean […]

From promoter: “Christine and the Queens has created an electrifying and passionate new project called La vita nuova. The French singer-songwriter, Héloïse Adelaïde Letissier, engages with the themes of strength and extreme vulnerability in the new release while adapting to a new life of fame.” Label: Because/Capitol Start w/ 1, 2, 5 FCC: 3 RIYL: Shura, MUNA, Caroline Polachek

From promoter: “Suddenly is the most surprising and unpredictable Caribou album to date. Though it retains the trademark Caribou warmth and technicolor, this album is littered with swerves and left turns. Songs drop out and morph into something else entirely just as they’re hitting their stride, samples chopped up beyond all recognition burst out of nowhere.” […]

From promoter: “Coming three years after their last project, Real Estate dives even further into their hook laden indie rock on The Main Thing. The New Jersey band’s bright guitar lines are set against emotionally nuanced lyrics and complex arrangements. What emerges is a superb collection of interrogative songs chock full of depth, charming quirks, […]

From promoter: As Boy Romeo, John Steiner makes power pop as joyful as it is ruthlessly efficient. The Chicago-via-Sacramento singer-songwriter’s music has the sweetness of something you might hear in a Broadway musical while erring towards the economy of what you might hear on A Hard Day’s Night Label: Self-Released Start w/ 2, 3, 5, 9 FCC: Clean […]

From promoter: “Franc Moody‘s sound is contemporary funk, awash with electronic inspiration, human touches, and throbbing grooves and via the tight-knit warehouse rave scene of London to where they are today, Franc Moody has been releasing music since 2016.” Label: Juicebox Start w/ 1, 2, 3, 8, 10 FCC: Clean RIYL: Hot Chip, Francis & The Lights, Chromeo

From promoter: Gooey, dreamy indie pop! Label: Self-Released Start w/ 1, 3, 4 FCC: Clean RIYL: Dayglow, COIN, Skylar Spence

From promoter: The second album from singer-songwriter Sophie Allison is piercing and unpredictable. In contrast to its bigger and brighter sound, the mood is grimmer, the emotional truths darker. Label: Loma Vista Start w/ 2, 6, 8 FCC: Clean (edits available on Subsonic) RIYL: Snail Mail, Tomberlin, Mitski, Jay Som

From promoter: “On his sophomore album, Full Hand, Indiana musician Kevin Krauter tackles complicated emotional states and ideas through elliptical songwriting that is at once poetic and truthful. “A lot of the lyrics touch on how I was raised religiously, touch on me understanding my sexuality more and more in recent years,” Label: Bayonet Records Start […]

From promoter: “Addictive and alluring, Room With a View showcases the band’s knack for making songs that sound straight from the jukebox. Capturing all the restlessness of late nights and ambiguous interactions, Spendtime Palace preserves the magic of dusty desert bars and the characters they draw.” Label: Park the Van Start w/ 1, 2, 4 FCC: Clean RIYL: Boy […]

From promoter: This young band of twenty-somethings are students of soul, including guitarist Blake Rhein, who moonlights doing research for The Numero Group. Even with that background, and an aesthetic steeped in the golden, strings-infused dreaminess of early ‘70s soul, the Indications are planted firmly in the present, with the urgency of this moment in […]