| 4.5 superb |
| Adrianne Lenker Songs |
| Adrianne Lenker Abysskiss |
| Alvvays Blue Rev |
| Angie McMahon Salt |
| Bell Witch Longing |
| relentless, soul-crushing; drones on for an eternity without being boring |
| Big Thief Capacity |
| Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago |
| Bright Eyes I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning |
| Cate Le Bon Pompeii |
| Daughter His Young Heart |
| Daughter Stereo Mind Game |
| Dodsrit Mortal Coil |
| Dodsrit Dödsrit |
| Dr. Dog We All Belong |
| Dr. Dog Fate |
| Ellende Todbringer |
| Ellis Born Again |
| Ex:Re Ex:Re |
| Feed Me Jack Anatolia |
| Flowing Tears and Withered Flowers Joy Parade |
| Fontaines D.C. Skinty Fia |
| Grateful Dead Blues for Allah |
| Great Grandpa Four of Arrows |
| Gregory Alan Isakov The Weatherman |
| Haley Heynderickx Seed of a Seed |
| Hannah Frances Nested In Tangles |
| lots to digest here. raw poetic lyrics, lovely intricate fingerpicking, lots of dissonance, jazzy time signatures, and a powerful voice. exactly what i needed to hear this autumn. |
| Hannah Frances Keeper of the Shepherd |
| Harakiri for the Sky Arson |
| Hop Along Painted Shut |
| Hop Along Bark Your Head Off, Dog |
| John-Allison Weiss Was Right All Along |
| Julia Jacklin Crushing |
| Katatonia Dead End Kings |
| Katatonia Dance of December Souls |
| Lana Del Rey Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd |
| Lucy Dacus Home Video |
| Mansions Dig Up the Dead |
| Mazzy Star She Hangs Brightly |
| Messa Close |
| Mgla Exercises in Futility |
| Mgla Age of Excuse |
| Miya Folick Strange Darling |
| Miya Folick Give It to Me |
| Nicole Dollanganger Married in Mount Airy |
| nouns Still |
| Now, Now Threads |
| Numenorean Adore |
| Peach Pit You and Your Friends |
| moving in a more pop direction, while still keeping their quirky bro charm. more in the vein of wallows, but with more interesting guitar work courtesy of chris. |
| Phoebe Bridgers Stranger in the Alps |
| Pinegrove 11:11 |
| Purity Ring Womb |
| more subdued, just as mysterious and intriguing. less in-your-face pop than the last two - it's the little details that suck you in this time. the music tells a beautiful story here; this is their best by far. |
| Ragana You Take Nothing |
| Ragana We Know that the Heavens Are Empty |
| Ratboys Printer's Devil |
| Sadness Circle of Veins |
| Sharon Van Etten Are We There |
| Sharon Van Etten We’ve Been Going About This All Wrong |
| Snail Mail Lush |
| Stella Donnelly Beware of the Dogs |
| Summer Peaks Saturday |
| Taake Hordalands Doedskvad |
| The Chambers Brothers The Time Has Come |
| The Tallest Man on Earth Sometimes The Blues Is Just A Passing Bird |
| The Tallest Man on Earth The Wild Hunt |
| The World Is a Beautiful Place... Whenever, If Ever |
| Tomberlin Projections |
| True Widow True Widow |
| Tubelord Feed Me a Box of Words |
| Tubelord Our First American Friends |
| Waxahatchee Saint Cloud |
| Widowspeak The Jacket |
| Wye Oak Shriek |
| Wye Oak The Louder I Call, the Faster It Runs |
| Yann Tiersen Le Fabuleux Destin D'Amelie Poulain |