Shiver sees Sigur Rós frontman Jónsi trying to find beauty in a glitch-pop style that’s been reserved for freakish fun, like searching for a diamond in a ballpit.

Art-folk diety Sufjan Stevens returns with the next installment of his pantheon of mainline studio albums.

Jai and A.K. Paul's new label has dropped its biggest collection of tracks to date, a pick-and-mix mingling various flavours of synth-funk and alternative R&B.

Many indie rock bands are quick to pull the ‘…with a twist!’ card, but Porridge Radio’s incorporation of noise and art-rock hands us a compelling case.

Jazz drummer Moses Boyd tributes the sounds he grew up hearing in his home city of London, from the stoic smithery of grime beats to the heartsore climate of underground dance music.

On his most impressive release to date, the Baltimore synth wizard hitches together something that’s equally striking from a distance, and impressively detailed with time and closer inspection.

After putting the whole world onto his bassy beats with 99.9%, BUBBA attempts to circumvent the sophomore slump with a more focused R&B direction.

20 years on, American Football’s 1999 debut is still the definitive musical high school journal, written with nimble guitars and bossa nova drums.

Wu-Tang Clan’s most freakish member animalised his music to create some of the most carnal and forward-thinking rap material ever conceived.

Fresh-faced from a tumultuous 2018, hip-hop’s biggest boy band come to terms with that period, finding power in lyrical maturity and audial simplicity as their creative muse.

Eight years into his career, Chi-town’s activistic gospel-rapper finally drops his first studio album.

The sheer oneness of Iceland has made it a very fertile land for creatives, and few individual pieces of work have proven this more successfully than Sigur Rós’ Ágætis byrjun.

In what is his first proper album without A$AP Yams, Rocky demonstrates why he has risen in the same trajectory as his boxer namesake.

Slint’s second and final album just so happens to be a defining touchstone for any post-rock, math-rock and post-hardcore band that follows them.

Memphis horrorcore clique Three 6 Mafia put the city on the map using low-grade studio equipment to create grimy, haunted hip-hop.

Tyler’s new record has a bewitching sense of mystery and alternative-dimensionality to it all, and finally shows that he’s not a rapper - he’s a creator.