Back with a new lineup, fresh sound, new writers, and new influences, Black Country, New Road marks their triumphant return to the studio with Forever Howlong, a simultaneously natural progression and radical departure from the band’s beloved past work.

On the new experimental release IOX by LA Timpa, demons visciously haunt every attempt at straightforward indie pop, with the record’s unique mixing style placing the singer in the far background as ominous, atmospheric noise dominates the center.

Psychedelic yet energetic, noisy yet pointed, anxiety-inducing yet endlessly fun, the experimental Latin grooves on the self-titled LP by Los Thuthanaka convert sounds in our everyday lives into a horrifying yet fascinating sonic funhouse.

The new experimental hip hop record Only Dust Remains by Backxwash begins at this confluence of internal and environmental negativity, examining this self-perpetuating cycle and beginning the excruciating climb out of this emotional pit.

Best conceptualized as two distinct musical statements released concurrently, this record uses two clearly demarcated styles to tell two separate stories.

London post rockers The Orchestra (For Now) pick up on this pandemic of anxiety on their explosive debut EP Plan 75, a dense, orchestral work with an extreme emotional range.

From your seat in the theater, you watch as the orchestra tunes up, playing a few notes to establish the sound of the room and set the tone for the evening. And then… that’s it.

These peaks represent that iconic moment of reveal in a body horror film, the instant when we realize how much worse things are than we possibly could have imagined, when our sense of security shatters into a million pieces as we imagine ourselves decimated in such a way.

Abstract hip hop artist PremRock forces us to ask hard questions on his new record Did You Enjoy Your Time Here…?, an album pointed not towards those whose will has been forcibly compromised, but instead towards those who seemingly possess no will at all.

Straining to break free from that suffocating existence, New Orleans sludgy experimentalists Guts Club forge towards collective liberation on their new album Please Come Back To The Farm.

Übers Jahr by Schatterau meditates on the rigid nature of time through a series of tracks which find their backbones in hypnotic tape loops, each of which captures a moment in the seasonal transition.

While experimental rock continues down its trend of increasingly dark, dissonant sounds inspired by no wave, New York noise rock outfit YHWH Nailgun counter with their own brand of chaos, a sound no less experimental yet decidedly unafraid of the light.

Seeking Darkness by Huremic, a separate alias designated for more experimental releases that don’t gel perfectly with the Parannoul brand, takes the most abstract, post-rock-influenced moments of a record like To See the Next Part of the Dream and expands them to the extreme.

However, today’s culture differs in several key ways from that of the last major recession, and the strange, hypnotic hip hop of Bridge of Sand. by Bridge of Sand. exaggerates these changes to the point of absurdity.

On The Snunchback of Notre Bung by Prosthetic Bung, rabid, riffy vocals and completely abstract guitar work unite with a relentless rhythm section and jazzy woodwinds to welcome us into this band’s enigmatic, haunting environment.

The playful, energetic, yet deeply contemplative Americana sound of Disaster Artist shines through on their new record Today, telling a coming-of-age story with a unique perspective.

The new dark ambient record Turnar by Hekla provides the resulting soundtrack, our mind’s attempt at filling the silence with an adequate representation of the vastness of the structure.

Combining free jazz experimentation with indie rock accessibility, Monde UFO’s unique psychedelic sound on Flamingo Tower introduces the absurd from within a trojan horse of aesthetic familiarity.

Continuing the development of their psychedelic, noisy, yet undeniably traditional country sound, Oldstar combines charming, approachable vocals with wildly dynamic instrumentals whose highs feature a massive distorted guitar sound.

Fusing traditional Iranian folk instrumentation with Finnish compositional techniques and aesthetics, experimental duo Gnäw capture the essence of the desert with the temperature of the boreal on Gnäw II.