Buckle up for M.I.A.’s surprisingly moving Christian album, a bass-driven, gospel-infused testament to personal salvation.

The English singer reunites with an old collaborator and digs deeper into his South Asian musical inheritance, but his fifth album of R&B-laced pop feels only slightly more realized.

The pioneering alt-country band returns with its first album in 30 years—a set of cryptic, languid dirges that feels defiantly out-of-time.

On a collaborative record where slurred Mandarin intersects with stuttering synths, the Chengdu rapper and his mentor interrogate the disconnect between social life and our internal worlds.