A titanic work that runs just under 40 minutes and is frightening in its originality

Chock full of attitude, fun and menace, Shygirl’s latest establishes a new, larger-than-life persona in addition to her trademark, detached cold-as-ice clubgirl.

Frustratingly limited to an expensive vinyl set, Rhino’s reissue of Elvis Costello’s third album is nonetheless a superlative package.

Rafael Machuca pivoted from tax lawyer to record label exec, and if the funky sounds of Colombia inspired that radical career shift, the least it will do is inspire you to dance.

Full of emotional catharsis as always, but more dynamic and nuanced than prior Told Slant albums.

If music is how we cope with the fate we are handed, Ólafur has given us a beautiful structure for handling this difficult, heartbreaking year.

Playing with Water marks the moment when it turns scary. Something irreparable has been torn; you could listen to Mike Cooper albums casually until now.

Brings Americana to the black metal sound in aesthetic, lyrics and musical execution.

To listen to Nina Simone in 2020 is not just to peer through a window into an America that once was, but to also see a reflection of the America that is today, and to see how the two overlap.

A remarkably lively look at the act of dying.