Now she returns with the noisier, more experimental 8 Tips for Full Catastrophe Living, a concept album meant to accompany our slow transition into the apocalypse.

For fans of Big Thief, Poor Creature, The New Eves, early minimalist post rock, and the psychedelic energy subconsciously emanating from traditional Western folk music, Dizzy Magic by Syko Friend uses looping song structures to freely improvise in a tightly emotionally pointed setting.

For fans of Bjork, Beach House, and Black Country, New Road, Hagen by Titanic immerses us in the apocalypse with their impossibly polished brand of neoclassical, experimental pop music.

For fans of American Football, Slint, Nick Drake, slowcore, and the tragic soul trapped inside an indifferent country music industry, God’s Gonna Give You a Million Dollars by Shallowater paints an eerily familiar, deeply depressive mosaic, capturing the zeitgeist in an unlikely union of traditional Americana and experimental rock.

For fans of Manaleek, War Room, post punk revival, and that magical mix of sincerity and surrealism that only an experimental punk project could provide, Tell Me Life’s Funny by Evangelism puts an expansive instrumental lineup to work by inviting us into a passionate, flamboyant, yet fundamentally stagnant world not too dissimilar from our own.

For fans of Boris, Sentries, My Wife’s an Angel, crossover hardcore punk, and that voice in the back of your head screaming at the top of its lungs, Strawberry by Prayer Group combines industrial, punk, and sludge to create the ultimate soundtrack to contemporary rage.

For fans of YHWH Nailgun, Chat Pile, hardcore punk energy in strange packaging, and a noisy aesthetic sensibility to meet a noisy moment, Gucked Up by Guck crafts a mosaic of heavy music to vent an extreme level of frustration.

For fans of JPEGMAFIA, Lil Ugly Mane, sound collage, and diary entries from the apocalypse, EVERYTHING BURNS! by Nakama. matches the schizophrenic psyche of our time with an instantly individual style of heavy hip hop.

For fans of Shearling, Julie Christmas, concept albums, and the rare prequel which actually meets or exceeds high expectations, Pt. 1 by Mildred adds depth to an already epic post hardcore love story by revealing its nihilistic underpinnings.

For fans of Cardiacs, Artificial Go, surrealist art of all kinds, and meeting the world’s negativity with a defiant whimsy, Business & Pleasure by Gumby’s Junk brings their unique brand of operatic post punk into a firmly bizarre, psychedelic environment.

For fans of Nine Inch Nails, Mamaleek, heavy electronic dance music, and an increasingly unserious existence in an increasingly serious crisis, Say Calm by Wreck and Reference stakes out a unique territory in heavy music to convey the crushing emptiness of a world with no future.

For fans of early Black Country, New Road, Unwound, the absolute deconstruction of shoegaze, and the thrill of a super villain origin story, the prophetically titled Mr Beast Death 2030 by the artist of the same name uses dissonant post hardcore to tell the story of slowly giving in to the cruelty of our environment.

For fans of Neurosis, City of Caterpillar, the more aggressive side of atmospheric black metal, and the realization that you live under the thumb of a death cult, Under a Gilded Sun by Malevich takes outrage at injustice to harrowing spiritual heights.

For fans of Slint, The Velvet Underground, constant, uncontrollable dissociation, and a lifetime of fumbled small talk, All It Takes for Evil to Prosper by Debris Bardot welcomes us into a life of alienation with their unique style of slowcore americana.

For fans of Saetia, Cime, math rock, and the metabolization of suffering into something meaningful, something worth experiencing, Corales EP by Corales shines a spotlight on the latent jazz influence hiding within emo to create a sound simultaneously warm, tender, and intense.

For fans of Tom Waits, Flooding, the more abrasive side of slowcore, and the abrupt realization of the gradual passage of time, Cleaning out the Empty Administration Building by R.J.F. observes life from the window of a bullet train, taking calm, collected notes as the station vanishes into the background.

For fans of Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Melt-Banana, musique concrete, all things avant garde, and birdwatching, The Birds of Marsville by Friendly Rich provides a wonderfully weird field guide to all manner of fantastical flying beasts.

For fans of Swans, Caroline, ritual ambient, and the sum total of the energies of all living things, Kin by Fletcher Tucker provides an accompaniment to nature, skirting typical desires to encapsulate, augment, or supplant our environment and instead humbly functioning inside.

For fans of Peter Brötzman, Boris, grindcore, and the imminent end of the world in the most embarrassing way possible, Enter the Misanthropocene by Abhorent Expanse unleashes humanity’s most disgusting, self-serving impulses into an abstract, bizarre sonic landscape.

For fans of Stereolab, Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp, anticolonial action, and the use of joyous celebration to resist oppression, Land Back by The Myrrors deploys their blisteringly heavy brand of krautrock to rally us to the dance floor of liberation.