On its second album, the Icelandic folk-rock quintet looking inward and attempting to render that most rocky and scarred of landscapes, the human psyche.
The L.A. quartet's rich, synth-driven songs and anthemic choruses remind us that pop music, at its most elegantly executed, is still an artform after all.
The English trio's seventh album serves up colossal hard rock anthems destined to flood the airwaves, even as it addresses institutionalized conformity.
On their full-length debut, Rhode Island duo Malportado Kids dance against the machine with music tailor-made for protesting and partying at the same time.