This week’s best albums
– Boyfrndz’s debut LP is a melodic beast of drum and guitar syncopation, backed by six-string bass.
– UK guitarist Matt Stevens delivers a new work that combines the progressiveness of his band work with the acoustic beauty of his solo albums.
– S. Carey’s latest offering finds him fully coming into his own as a solo artist.
– Together as Inventions, members of Explosions in the Sky and Eluvium craft glistening fuzz and ambient whispers that evoke their other bands.
Honorable mentions
Cex: Shamaneater (Automation)
Nostalghia: Chrysalis
Pyrrhon: The Mother of Virtues (Relapse)
White Hinterland: Baby (Dead Oceans)