This week’s best albums
– Mogwai takes a sizable step forward in sound, releasing a matured eighth LP that utilizes vintage synth sounds and displays a new technical prowess.
– Nearly 25 years in, Reverend Horton Heat delivers another diverse and lively album, the band’s first for Victory Records.
– Together as Step Brothers, Alchemist (Gangrene) and Evidence (Dilated Peoples) paint a street-scape that comes to life in stark, paranoid flashes rather than extravagant gestures of madness.
Honorable mentions
Against Me!: Transgender Dysphoria Blues (Total Treble)
Indian: From All Purity (Relapse)
Murmur: s/t (Season of Mist)
Tempel: On the Steps of the Temple (Prosthetic)