For fans of The Beach Boys, Love, Asher White, power pop, and psychedelia as a fun foil to the drudgery of everyday life, Ingen vår i år by Hayeminol brings their accessible approach to a wide array of maximalist, baroque-adjacent sounds.

For fans of Talk Talk, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Brian Eno, Krautrock, and grand finales of all shapes and sizes, The Ending Orchestra by Bozoru Bear takes us on a walk through the apocalypse, observing our surroundings with deep emotional nuance and serious philosophical restraint.

For fans of Mamaleek, Cime, Yowie, the Canterbury scene, and the appreciation of a single creative spirit which moves across all people in all time, BodeNote by Perfect presents the vanguard of outsider rock, crafting something so incomprehensibly strange as to instantly demand conversation on its own terms.

For fans of Modest Mouse, Jeff Buckley, Portishead, that one problematic band and all its side projects which lots of people are looking to replace in their libraries (it’s Radiohead), and long walks in the sleet-covered snow, Visitor by Yea Big hits that rare balance of progressive, understated indie rock which packs an enormous emotional punch into its narrow dynamic range.

For fans of Slint, American Football, Explosions in the Sky, the atmosphere of those classic slacker rock records, and that sinking pit in your stomach when you no longer recognize your hometown, Shaking Hand by Shaking Hand takes an experimental, guitar-driven approach to the analysis of unstoppable change.

For fans of The Cure, This Heat, Women, the more spacy, minimal strains of industrial rock, and that eternal siren song calling us to return to nature, Dwa Wymiary by BZDET predicts a spiritual apocalypse with a unique, unnerving take on the ever-popular gothic rock sound.

For fans of My Bloody Valentine, Lil Ugly Mane, Smashing Pumpkins, internet bedroom noise rock, and the use of mass quantities of noise to drown out the pain, Canyon Flourish Town by Waterproof Goldstar stretches shoegaze to its limits, producing a sound so maximalist and distorted as to border on the edge of rock music entirely.

For fans of Show Me the Body, Moreru, My Wife’s an Angel, sludge metal, and the viral spread of trauma into all corners of the soul, Cloth Mother by PIGPEN takes aim at those demons which haunt our relationships and fires off blisteringly intense rounds of hardcore chaos.

For fans of Cap’n Jazz, Mineral, Frail Body, first-wave emo, and that anxious middle section of the hero’s journey, Ressociation by Joybun begs for divine revelation while languishing in a sea of doubt.

For fans of Asleep Country, Faust, The Caretaker, free jazz, and misreading random goings-on as pure tragedy, Pandemonium by Martinez/Roach forces us into an anxious, melancholic headspace through a portal of intense, immersive sound collage.

For fans of Tortoise, Gastr Del Sol, Sigur Rós, ambient Americana, and the conscious decision to cherish every moment we share with loved ones, III by Pullman looks back on decades of groundbreaking music and creative community with a warm, fuzzy take on instrumental post rock.

For fans of Jeffrey Lewis, Daniel Johnston, The Velvet Underground, old-school slowcore, and ending up in conversations with strangers about shows you’ll never watch, Repetition by Kill-Kennie presents an anti folk slice of life depicting a stagnant speaker with no clear path ahead.

For fans of Molchat Doma, Cime, Deafheaven, krautrock, and the anxious preparation for the worst case scenario, Bruxismo en la familia by El Café Atómico conducts horrific slasher tales through the wiring of their unique, hypnotic brand of post punk.

For fans of Duster, Have a Nice Life, Cindy Lee, early post rock, and the willingness to grapple with and make sense of the deepest, darkest feelings of depression, Some of Us Stay, Some of Us Go by Atomiste takes an instrumental slowcore approach to describe an urgently dangerous mental health crisis.

For fans of Black Dresses, Suicide, Melt-Banana, industrial hip hop, and reflecting chaotic energy back into the world, Thirteen Tales of Depravity by Stice recounts stories of dead-end escapism in the form of a driving, energizing electropunk album.

For fans of Geordie Greep, Decapitation in the Food Court, Cisnienie, the current wave of unhinged noise rock, and that gut feeling that something has gone horribly wrong, Going to Hell by Godzilla Nether Portal grasps desperately for meaning in a sea of suffering with its snarled hands of symphonic post hardcore.

For fans of Cardiacs, They Might Be Giants, Husker Du, the Elephant 6 Collective, and the death of the so-called American Dream, Is Lemons by Gavin Caine brings a baroque flamboyance to 80s college rock to add depth to the famously jaded narratives of the forerunners of mass-market alternative rock.

For fans of MF DOOM, Injury Reserve, Armand Hammer, vaporwave, and that absurd space halfway between here and psychedelia, DRAYMOND BROWN by THEFOODLORD and Konart1st takes a glitchy approach to classic samples to form a hip hop sound equal parts traditional and transcendent.

For fans of Geese, Algernon Cadwallader, Mogwai, the more emo-tinged side of the Windmill Scene, and the desperation to feel something in the midst of a numb depression, Many Other Things by Fargo crafts love songs which burn with the desire for all ends of the romantic spectrum, from heartbreak to passion to tenderness to chaos.

For fans of Oneohtrix Point Never, 23WA, Schpongle, and syncretic gnostic mysticism, the channeled electronica of O Great Epiphany! Pt 2: Echoes in the Kundalini Maze by IHP is like a power-drill to the third eye, a surgical operation of auditory trepanation.