Staff Picks: Best New Music

all genres

	Taylor Swift Folklore A woman that has not run out of fearless shifts		The Lawrence Arms Skeleton Coast Very average, with some charm.
	Havukruunu Uinuos Syömein Sota Havukruunu's most ambitious and most epic output yet. A massive riff-fest.		The Chicks Gaslighter After a 14 year wait, the holy trinity of country music return to inspire and astound all over again.
	Paysage d'Hiver Im Wald My very own summer record		Phoebe Bridgers Punisher Phoebe Bridgers' strengths are on full display here. But her weaknesses are starting to show as well.
	Protest the Hero Palimpsest Both a fresh start and a culmination.		Jessie Ware What's Your Pleasure? To live my life fearlessly.
	Run the Jewels RTJ4 I am in love with you. It's my only grace.		Emily Keener I Do Not Have To Be Good Comforting in its patient, often plodding sense of pace, the warmth of its live production and the soft beauty in Keener’s voice. But also deeply doubtful of the world it’s born into.
	Carly Rae Jepsen Dedicated Side B Better than Dedicated. On par with Emotion.		Jeff Rosenstock NO DREAM NO DREAM is the sound of memories being made in the middle of rough times, mistakes being admitted to and forgiven, and relishing in the joy we find in each other. In other words, it's a Jeff Rosenstock record.
	Jess Williamson Sorceress Growing old and making sense of it all, Jess Williamson has crafted an immensely personal piece with much wider-reaching implications.		Paradise Lost Obsidian "As pure as driven snow."
	Hayley Williams Petals For Armor Set to Simmer Between the Temperature Extremes of the Music's Chill and the Lyrics' Heat		Dance Gavin Dance Afterburner No
	Elder (USA-MA) Omens A dramatic alteration with familiar construction		Ulcerate Stare Into Death and Be Still This abyss did more than gaze back into me. It spoke...
	The Smith Street Band Don't Waste Your Anger Maybe this is the thing that I never get through		Fiona Apple Fetch The Bolt Cutters One of those pieces of art that words cant quite do justice, Fiona Apple has crafted an instant classic.
	Nine Inch Nails Ghosts VI: Locusts Night and day coincide.		Childish Gambino 03.15.20 "To be beautiful is to be hunted".
	Empty Country Empty Country "I spent a decade playin' chicken with oblivion".		Heaven Shall Burn Of Truth and Sacrifice Ambitious reaffirmation of Heaven Shall Burn.