In their new album The 10000 Things: PRAISE SONGS for the iRiligious, Swift takes the role of mediator between the past and future, combining rich traditional spirituals and Work Songs with crisp and futuristic electronic elements to create a totally original sound.

Deep within In the Merry Month of May by Tony Conrad and Jennifer Walshe, American folk traditions still animate the improvised sonic chaos, but their manifestation as continuous, free-flowing panic attacks reveals the future that this culture was always moving towards.

Rather than suffer from otosclerosis, Bazelaire reads these sounds as a form of music made uniquely for them, with heartbeats serving as a compelling, organic rhythmic staple and tinnitus providing complex harmonies, gliding gracefully between tension and release.

The Leaves Are Falling / The Seeds Are Being Planted by Coral Cat takes heavy influence from Animal Collective’s cyclical structures and organic rhythms, massaging these deeply psychedelic elements into an aesthetic otherwise defined wholly by glitch pop and hyper pop.

However, the new album An Error Has Occurred by psych rock mainstays The Janitors takes us on a bad trip that violates all of these expectations, unflinchingly staring down evil head-on, despite the discomfort that follows.

After losing her husband to the wild, frigid slopes of Mount Everest, Tamil folk music experimentalist Sushma Soma entered a deep, dark period of grieving that culminated in The Mountain Has the Last Say, a heartbreaking tale of the most difficult kind of stoic acceptance.

Distorted soul samples place us in a heavy headspace, forcing us to examine time poorly spent and imagine a world where we used every moment to the fullest.

This record is rooted in but not restrained by the typical Power Electronics sound, taking a more dynamic approach by incorporating influences from other industrial and experimental music genres. With these carefully constructed tracks navigating between stillness and explosive movements, Cute strikes a delicate balance between expansive atmospheric soundscapes, and extreme gut-churning chaos.

This jazzy, kraut-inspired, psychedelic album embeds intense solos and vocal performances into an underlying bed of traditional percussion and strong countermelodies, setting dramatic, busy scenes that generally resolve peacefully.

By beginning and ending each track at the same ambient point, Female Gaze designed the songs to be played in any order, representing the meaninglessness of day and night, morning and evening, week and weekend in this homebound state.

From traditional to experimental, from sluggish to quick, from blackened to death, this week’s best metal albums have something to offer for everyone!

With all of the annoyingly sterile new wave and goth rock out there, Tongue in the Mind’s debut self-titled EP goes far beyond a mere breath of fresh air.

Thoughts explode into shrapnel, each stanza appearing as a distinct obsession with its own melodic motif before quickly falling off track as the speaker locates a new source of anxiety.

Glitch pop collective Pet Wife with their new record Foam Set explores love as the fulfillment of an essential lack, as an interaction that requires an uncomfortable amount of vulnerability, always teetering on the edge of codependence.

When confronted with the horrifying mundanity of Weezer’s post-hiatus stage presence and the crowds that accumulate to watch it, however, this kid flew headfirst into an existential crisis that lead to the creation of Weezer’s Blue Album under the name Trashdog.

The Japanese psychedelic rock underground has been on the radar of the international music scene for decades, but few groups in the community have been as prolific as Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O..

An increasingly common byproduct of this sound, tinnitus, wreaks havoc on many people’s ability to produce or enjoy music, but experimental artist Lola de la Mata turned her own symptoms into auditory art on her new album Oceans on Azimuth.

After losing her mother, Quebec avant-folk artist Myriam Gendron started work on Mayday, a collection of songs that eloquently retell the story of her long, cyclical recovery process.

Suddenly, a chaotic, jubilant big band busts down the door, accepting the refined, individual artistic voice into an unstoppable chorus of pure energy, pure ecstasy as the group unifies in a call to the divine.

Unaddressed, intense emotions hit a bottleneck and spew out in the shape of Back to Shilmarine by HAAL, a gritty post rock album that revels in the tension of misunderstood and awkward feelings.