Staff Picks: Best New Music

all genres

	Olivia Rodrigo You Seem Pretty Sad For A Girl So In Love The incredibly satisfying sound of potential being fully realized.		Converge Hum of Hurt No leftovers here; 2 for 2.
	Death Cab for Cutie I Built You A Tower Death Cab have released their best album in over 20 years and boy is it a beautiful thing.		Modest Mouse An Eraser and a Maze Sometime I'll be dead and gone / Sooner than I hope, but I hope I'm wrong
	August Burns Red Season of Surrender I’ll admit, after the last couple of records, I wondered if August Burns Red had settled into a predictable groove. Season of Surrender completely shatters that doubt. This is hands-down the best, most focused album th		Manchester Orchestra Union Chapel (London, England) Amplified in the silence
	Funebrarum Beckoning the Void of Eternal Silence Ever wonder what it would be like to get hit by an 18-wheeler? Well, this is it.		Static Dress Injury Episode Instant Post-Hardcore Classic
	Elder (USA-MA) Through Zero More ambitious than ever.		Boards of Canada Inferno A world worth inhabiting.
	Hammock The Second Coming Was A Moonrise The stars came tumbling down		Dimmu Borgir Grand Serpent Rising Another 2026 comeback for the ages!
	Kevin Morby Little Wide Open Heaven is a place on Earth		Genesis Owusu Redstar Wu and the Worldwide Scourge A diverse and political hip-hop album....but it's so much more than that.
	A Forest of Stars Stack Overflow In Corpse Pile Interface A haunting black metal cinema.		Panopticon Det Hjemsøkte Hjertet The Laurentian Trilogy roars, soars, and sings to a close with another discography highlight from Panopticon.
	Darkthrone Pre-Historic Metal Getting old. Real old.		Darko (US) Oni 2 My favorite band is a side project
	American Football American Football (LP4) Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.		Friko Something Worth Waiting For Tomorrow We'll Fly
	WU LYF A Wave That Will Never Break We are so back!		Immolation Descent "On and on, more death awaits."
	The Twilight Sad It's The Long Goodbye The Sound of a Long Goodbye		Neurosis An Undying Love for a Burning World A comeback for the ages.