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The Hard Quartet  The Hard Quartet

For the Hard Quartet, everything came together quickly. Now they need time to take it all apart Spectrum Culture

Godspeed You! Black Emperor  No?Title as of 13 February 2024 28,340 Dead

Post-rockers GY!BE make wondrous noise (again) but water it down with vague commentary Spectrum Culture

Being Dead  EELS

As a whole, EELS may not reach the energetic frenzy of last year’s When Horses Would Run, but it more than makes up for it in the sheer breadth of shade and color Being Dead infuses into its 44-minute runtime Under The Radar

Chat Pile  Cool World

On an album that paints a panoramic view of human suffering, the Oklahoma City group sometimes sacrifices ferocity as it expands its muscular sludge-metal sound Pitchfork

Godspeed You! Black Emperor  No?Title as of 13 February 2024 28,340 Dead

Gifted with a uniquely poetic emotion that combines deep mourning with strength and willpower Beats Per Minute

Charli XCX  Brat and it’s completely different but still brat

She’s working through her feelings alongside the evolution of the album, which is as good a side project as any. Brat lives on in a shapeshifting form Northern Transmissions

The Linda Lindas  No Obligation

Self-proclaimed “studio geeks,” the Linda Lindas’ experience and vision is already paying dividends, and No Obligation will one day serve as a touchstone in what seems to be an evolving and promising drive Northern Transmissions

Charli XCX  Brat and it’s completely different but still brat

The sheer existence of this album is cause for celebration—it’s a re-interpretation with plenty of Party Girl bangers and dispatches from a raucous summer, taking its source material and widens its scope through maximalism and anti-celebrity reckoning Paste Magazine

Charli XCX  Brat and it’s completely different but still brat

Four months after kickstarting a cultural phenomenon with her sixth album, the British pop icon invites friends and big-name acts to give it a new lease of life NME

A Place to Bury Strangers  Synthesizer

The effects rig does a lot to carry Synthesizer, much as it has every other A Place to Bury Strangers album. For the first time in a while, though, the songs are starting to keep pace with the gear Spectrum Culture

The Linda Lindas  No Obligation

The Linda Lindas certainly are not at the nastier end of Epitaph’s catalogue, but there’s something about this band rejecting the myth we all carry, of having to pretend we’ve got it all together, that remains incredibly powerful Spectrum Culture

Goat  Goat

Refusing to be pinned down, this is a band that constantly dances along the edge of the void, inviting listeners to step just a little closer. Don’t just listen to Goat. Get yourself lost in it. Go on God Is In The TV

Charli XCX  Brat and it’s completely different but still brat

Quick on the heels of her blockbuster album BRAT, the pop star offers a remix album that is anything but obligatory. Like its sister album, it is unexpected, unfiltered, uncomfortably messy, and dizzyingly fun Pitchfork

Geordie Greep  The New Sound

‘The New Sound’ deftly extracts the unserious bombast of black midi and places it in a grotesque but engrossing atmosphere Clash

Leon Bridges  Leon

The soul singer looks backward on his fourth album, a wistful nostalgia trip that wraps its ’70s-inspired sound in sumptuous, heavily stylized production Pitchfork