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Miracle’s darkly elegant music takes the sounds of the ’80s and reshapes them into strange and thrillingnew forms.

Fine China return after thirteen years with some of their best songs to date. Elegant, wistful pop of the finest sort.

MagentaMantaLoveTree is a sprawling, uneven album that’s by turns fascinating and frustrating, impassioned and inconsistent.

Raison d’être’s dark ambience may begin in the shadows, but it’s never content to stay there.

This “children fairytale book concept album” is full of enchanting, beguiling music.

Heart-breaking music about death; dreamy electronica from shoegaze giants; inspired ’80s pop; plaintive, old-timey folk/country; and goofy country-punk.

18 minutes of retro-futuristic pop perfection.

The dream pop trio creates the sweetest sounding existential angst you’re ever likely to hear.

Nabihah Iqbal ultimately sounds like nobody so much as herself.

An impressive debut that feels both nostalgic and original; exquisitely composed dreampop; and super funky future funk.

This remarkably strong debut is filled with simple-yet-affecting tales of love at its best and worst, all wrapped in gorgeous pop arrangements.

Angela Klimek’s lovely debut conjures up a magical, enchanting view of winter thanks to vast ambient drones and textures.

Thangorodrim’s Tolkien-inspired “dungeon synth” can get cheesy at times, but the epic fantasy vision is winsome in its own way.

For fans of thoughtful, atmospheric indie-rock, Starsabout’s debut full-length is the real deal.

This ambient reimagining breaks down Vangelis’ original score and weaves it back together in new, intriguing ways.

Some of Makeup & Vanity Set’s most ambient and surreal work in some time.

Arguably the most difficult Perturbator release to date — but also one of the most intriguing.

These instrumentals make you realize how limited the term “hip-hop” has come to be understood.

Tholen’s first album in four years finds him pondering marriage, being an artist, and the mysteries of God’s divine will.

These songs move in directions that are more interesting than the simple “shoegaze + metal” equation implies.