Staff Picks: Best New Music

all genres

	Sigur Ros Kveikur A glorious return, but perhaps not the one we were expecting...		Dark Tranquillity Construct Dark Tranquility continue to cultivate their signature sound.
	Daft Punk Random Access Memories One of the best electronic albums I've ever heard, and Daft Punk's magnum opus.		The Dillinger Escape Plan One of Us Is the Killer As lethal as ever.
	Vampire Weekend Modern Vampires of the City Modern Vampires indeed.		Bibio Silver Wilkinson Summery.
	Streetlight Manifesto The Hands That Thieve The hype train has officially pulled into the station…		Laura Stevenson Wheel No one is ever gonna take my life from me; I lay it down, a ghost is born.
	Frank Turner Tape Deck Heart Frank Turner would appear to be equal parts shower and grower		Ghostface Killah Twelve Reasons to Die Soulful, abrasive, and grimy as hell, Twelve Reasons to Die is the essence of Hip Hop
	Trvth Black Horse Plague ...and henceforth life will continue to blossom, only to eventually face the hands of death...		Kurt Vile Wakin on a Pretty Daze Psychedelic subtleties...
	James Blake Overgrown James Blake v2.0		Killswitch Engage Disarm the Descent Jesse Leach's return to Killswitch Engage seems to have spawned a rebirth in the band, as KSE delivers some of it's most vicious and cathartic material in years. Killswitch Engage sounds hungry again on Disarm The Descen
	Nails Abandon All Life Don your Entombed patch laden denim jacket and get pissed.		Justin Timberlake The 20/20 Experience Well? How do you like it?
	David Bowie The Next Day Still rocking at sixty-six.		The Men New Moon now with 90% more antagonistically pleasant piano
	Waxahatchee Cerulean Salt and you will breathe depleted, but much better off without me		The Drones I See Seaweed I See Seaweed seethes with fierce intensity.
	Darkthrone The Underground Resistance Darkthrone show that it's still possible to rock out with your cock out in 2013.		Paysage d'Hiver Das Tor The winter eternal
	Shai Hulud Reach Beyond the Sun Misanthropy perfected.		Sadistik Flowers For My Father Purity of thought seldom heard or felt through music as a vessel