Staff Picks: Best New Music

all genres

	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.
	Alkaline Trio E.P. A solid and worthwhile nine minutes that further cements Alkaline Trio’s creative resurgence		Hot Mulligan You'll Be Fine Magnum opus? No. High art? No. Really good emo-tinged pop-punk? Yup.
	Aseul Slow Dance Slow Dancing the worries away		Honey Harper Starmaker Are you ready for cosmic dream country?
	Grimes Miss Anthropocene Always down when I'm not up, guess it's just my rotten luck.		Katie Pruitt Expectations Country music's saving grace
	Psychotic Waltz The God-Shaped Void Psychotic Waltz isn’t returning to a genre saturated with sound-alikes; they’re returning to a sound some have tried to emulate, but none have managed to reproduce.		Denzel Curry and Kenny Beats Unlocked I kick that funky shit until my casket close
	Spanish Love Songs Brave Faces Everyone Hey man, I just wanna survive		Yuri Gagarin The Outskirts of Reality Cruising through cosmos at the speed of sound…