Retro but never dusty, the rapper’s brilliantly bugged-out new tape sounds like a New York that hardly exists anymore.

The Australian singer-songwriter’s latest album sounds at first like a chipper fusion of post-punk and dream pop. But the lyrics tell a story of an unhinged narrator and her desperate obsession.

From nu-metal to Madchester and beyond, the Austin metal trio’s ambitious fourth album brings all their disparate influences under one roof.

For its second record, the Chicago band adds sprawling arrangements to its homespun sound, reaching for the theatrical maximalism of its millennial indie-rock forebears.