…features two brand new songs, alongside “New Desire,” as well as a rework with John Glacier and remixes from various artists including Jacques Greene, Nosaj Thing, Lil Silva and Oscar Farrell.
Arlo Parks has long made a home in vulnerability and poetic lyricism, and on Ambiguous Desire, she doubles down on that instinct with confidence. The album is full of psychedelic textures, punchy basslines, and dreamy vocals that blur together into something hypnotic but anthemic.
While the coherence of the record sometimes lends itself to monotony, the darker sonic undercurrent, coupled with a newly found more intricate and explorative sonority, has a sensation of quiet and dreamlike absorption.
Across the whole record, Parks’ vocals are…
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Los Angeles garage punk rockers Death Valley Girls have always mixed elements of irreverence, revolution, and compassion in their music, but their 6th album, Welcome to Earth, is an especially community-minded one. It follows the loss of bandleader Bonnie Bloomgarden’s home and belongings in the Southern California wildfires of early 2025, which she escaped thanks to a ride and a place to stay from her landlord, an offer she accepted while leaving even her phone and her car behind. Although they can sometimes be hard to discern on the noisy, group-sung LP, some of the collaborators here include former member Laura Kelsey, fellow garage punker Seth Bogart (Hunx & His Punx), Grammy-nominated jazz vocalist Gretchen Parlato, and a children’s chorus.
The Lone Star State is a hell of a long way from the City of Angels. Anyone familiar with U.S. geography knows this, but no one understands the lengths of that journey quite like 
Anytime is a good time for a new John Prine album. 
On their sixteenth studio album, 
A quiet celebration. A legendary return. Paul Simon brings his critically acclaimed and GRAMMY-nominated 
The 2020s have been a decade marked by loss. We’ve lost faith and trust in institutions that were already slowly collapsing. A whole generation lost out on formative experiences without the turbulent disruption of the pandemic. And in the music world, we’ve largely lost the kind of artists who could emerge organically without the noxious influence of algorithms or million-dollar spends. It’s a miracle, then, whenever a legitimate gain comes along, and for the music industry in particular, someone who could both draw from the traditions of American rock and bring them to newer, deeper, unexpected places. Although his success was partly engineered by a digital marketing agency, Cameron Winter has proven to be a vital addition to this increasingly endangered species of performers…
Greta Van Fleet remain the most consistently successful standard bearers for The New Rock’N’Roll. While the mania that greeted them at the tail end of the 2010s has abated, the Michigan band’s three albums to date have still all breached the US Top 10, a feat that Rival Sons, The Struts, Dirty Honey and the rest can only dream of.
Having unexpectedly passed away in late 2025, the first posthumous album from 
Search for Dalarna, Sweden, on Google Maps, and the red pin pops up in what looks like the middle of nowhere. Around the red pin are many towns that, apparently, are so small that Google doesn’t have a picture for them. Dalarna is a province (culturally) and a county (administratively), and the two don’t necessarily have the same boundaries. But somewhere in this mostly rural area, Kristian Matsson grew up in the 1980s and ’90s.
A man from the future is an audio/musical biography of computer pioneer and codebreaker Alan Turing written by Pet Shop Boys with Turing biographer Professor Andrew Hodges.
On her previous album, 2024’s 
How to persuade men to open up about their feelings has long been an issue that has perplexed mental health professionals, an intractable problem leading to a range of outside-the-box solutions: men’s sheds, cycling groups, even, you suspect, the repeated commissioning of Mortimer and Whitehouse’s Gone Fishing. After hearing Do Not Dare To Dream, however, any future campaigns should think about signing up Teenage Fanclub as musical figureheads. Their thirteenth album might have been recorded in an isolated environment – the current quintet of Norman Blake, Raymond McGinley, Euros Childs, Francis Macdonald and David McGowan gathering on the Scottish island of Great Bernera – but it’s far from remote, its songs of sadness, alienation and creeping…
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Ever since Lucas Debargue took fourth prize at the 2015 international Tchaikovsky competition, he’s refused to be pigeonholed. His distinctive journey brings him now to George Gershwin, complementing the piano concerto and preludes with beguiling original explorations of the composer’s songs in the form of a dozen études. His supple account of ‘Rhapsody in Blue’ is based on Gershwin’s solo piano arrangement, to which he adds his own partly improvised cadenzas. Like everything here, it comes up fresh as a daisy.