The Best New Music According to Critics

Rosalía's Lux arrives as a bravely orchestrated statement, folding pop bravura into liturgical drama and staking a claim on grand, operatic territory....

Hayley Williams's Ego Death At A Bachelorette Party arrives as a bruised, bravado-filled statement that critics largely hail as a career-affirming rei...

Anna von Hausswolff's ICONOCLASTS arrives as a cathedral-sized statement that pivots her ritualistic gloom into widescreen, sax-lined drama. Across si...

Deftones's private music arrives as a purposeful reunion that balances bruising heft with intimate lyricism, and across professional reviews it largel...

CMAT's EURO-COUNTRY arrives as a theatrical, fiercely witty consolidation of persona and politics, an album critics call both outrageously entertainin...

Agriculture's The Spiritual Sound arrives as a confrontational, often luminous statement that marries ecstatic black-metal fury with delicate shoegaze...