Moon Music is only 10 songs, but it’s a lot, and that’s the idea — the pop-rock album comes as a social, psychological, and metaphysical cold-plunge. It’s pop’s biggest optimists fighting the blues and highlighting the power of music while gently and subtly distilling that spirit of weathering any storm.

In contrast to his debut which featured instrumentals written and performed solely by the artist himself, For Cryin’ Out Loud! sees Finneas expand his creative horizons to a classic studio/band environment, resulting in his most uplifting and raw body of work to date.

With 13 tracks featuring Bridge’s signature storytelling and a unique blend of organic genre alchemy, Leon is his most poignant, powerful, and personal work to date. He takes fans on a trip through the heart of Ft. Worth he knows best, the things he holds dear, and the people and places that shaped him.

Cutouts brings a more complicated listen than the band’s previous two releases. Filled with looping textures and the sort of repeat spins Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood are used to with their main group of Radiohead, the album strikes a balance between orchestrated opulence and prog-like trickiness.

At roughly 45 minutes, the two compositions that make up this album are as confounding as they are engaging in their scope, melding the 70's prog leanings of Tangerine Dream with the deathly intent of Morbid Angel. Blood Incantation are leaving the notion of genre behind and writing a new language for extreme music itself.

On their fourth full length, Fever 333 still perches outside genre definition, balancing hardcore, metalcore and hip-hop -- each shifting between tracks. In the two years since Wrong Generation dropped, they’ve got even angrier, more vicious in their determination to address social injustice, with this renewed fire bleeding through every song.

New York-based death metal greats Undeath emerge from festering slime with their new album, More Insane. The 10 tracks, imbued with death metal's immortal soul, feast on the rotten flesh of brutality, complexity, and depravity while bringing inimitable energy, pit-friendly hooks, and work-hardened ethos.

For over a decade, Drug Church have been building a very strong case that they’re the best loud guitar band in the game; their fifth full-length Prude–a 28-minute blast of aggression, melody, irreverence, and genuine heart–feels like the undeniable proof.

Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit follow up with a second volume of live recordings from their annual residency at The Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, TN. Featuring favorites from Weathervanes and Reunions as well as "The Last Song I Will Write" and a cover of Tom Petty's "Room at the Top".

Got A Story to Tell delivers a pushes genre while exhibiting a magnetic coolness and swagger. The relaxed quality of the musicianship coupled with Josh Lane's heart-wrenching voice gives the album a maturity that carries the listener through many facets of the soul spectrum. From the heavy groove of "Lucid Girl" to the '70s swing of "Live for You".