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Along with having a vocalist whose whine echoes the most grating moments of Judas Priest, the instrumentation of “Beautiful Distraction” is so loosely put together that it probably could have been composed in a half hour.

Notwithstanding how nearly every track mirrors and embodies the tracklist from “NFR!”, “Chemtrails” attempts to strip back its sound to be as acoustic as possible, or rather as instrumentally stale as possible.

Though “Medicine at Midnight” is a summer album released during the winter, it is also as perfectly middling as any Foo Fighters fan or non-fan could ask for.

For the most part, Grimes is completely absent from these songs, aside from the surprisingly fleeting instances where her singing is spliced in, sometimes as the only melody to the song.

“Nightmares of the Decomposed,” by American death metal band Six Feet Under, might be one of the funniest listening experiences I’ve steeled myself through in quite a while.

Deerhoof ’s most recent record, “Future Teenage Cave Artists,” is almost a return to form for the band, calling back to the psychedelic influences that made their midcareer albums so iconic.

Minimalist, awash in choruses of sunsets, Emily Keener’s newest record, “I Do Not Have To Be Good,” is an indie folk paradise. Paradise is a loose term; beneath the surface of its sonics is a lackadaisical rebellion for freedom.

With “The Deadbeat Bang of Heartbreak City,” it’s as if Beach Slang just completely re-recorded The Stooges’ “Fun House” (1970) but rearranged the lyrics and threw out all the lasting value of the original.

The songwriting tight, and the melodies eccentric, “All or Nothing” is a seminal excuse for what makes the genre accessible yet invigorating.

For a relatively young band, Konvent already molded a place for themselves to fit among other doom bands, while simultaneously holding high the mature evolution their music has made so quickly.

Typecaste come off as a band who could write the same 2-minute hardcore beat for a full-length record and their fanbase would gush all over it.