When the focus is there on Reality Awaits, it works. When it’s absent, it feels like a meandering jam session as they try to figure out their next move.

Decades is a fitting entry in the band’s catalog to celebrate this achievement; it’s equal parts heavy and silly, channeling the Scranton, PA five-piece’s penchant for the macabre throughout its twelve songs.

Dear God demonstrates the mercurial nature of Taylor Momsen as she desperately tries to find light in the darkness, while often letting that same darkness encompass her like a warm blanket. This album is the two-faced nature of depression, personified through music.

Throughout its eleven songs, Charli XCX seems to be working against everything we’ve ever known about her, and the result is more museum art piece than Top 40 radio hit. I think that’s the point.

The Good Ole American Saturday Night, the twelfth album from the Boston-based ska punk band, is an eruption of good vibes and calls for hopefulness in these disparate times.

Looking to challenge themselves even further after the release of their seventh studio album, 2021’s What It Means To Fall Apart, the band has created a three-part album that they’ve been steadily releasing over the course of a year.

This isn’t a band that’s reinventing the wheel; rather, they’re taking the build specifications of said wheel and constructing it in the best way humanly possible.

Sungazer traces the many frailties of the human condition over its forty-five-minute run time, and it’s a great reintroduction of the band to the public consciousness after a decade-long absence.