Bjork Vulnicura StringsNever one to do things timidly, with Vulnicura Bj? rk delivers a breakup album that doesn't just express sadness it immerses listeners in the total devastation of heartbreak. Starting with the album cover's wound vulva imagery, she explores the tightly linked emotional and physical pain the end of a relationship brings with an intensity that has been missing from her music for too long. As expertly as she wedded feelings and concepts on Med? lla,

Scaling the heights of hubris on "Dr

Released: 2014-12-15

Melody Gardot

Rage Against the Machine

Porches stands as the most active and successful alias of the style-shifting Manhattan musician to date

Potential seems like a 2010s update of Moby's Play

he seems to have (at least momentarily) laid aside his R&B/hip-hop aspirations in pursuit of a late-'60s/early-'70s folk-rock aesthetic

Released: 2019-03-29

Pennsylvania

Boy From School

WHITE LIGHT/WHITE HEAT

an album that landed on Billboard's Heatseekers chart and made some high-profile best-of-2015 lists