"An absorbing modern shoegaze classic" - Louder writes in review of 'The Great Dismal', adding the new Nothing record is "an intense and unflinching album which embraces life’s chaotic absurdity and weighs heavily long after its final riffs fade to black". Dark singer/songwriter Emma Ruth Rundle and crushingly heavy sludge metal band Thou "feed off each other in a way where they create something none of them could have done on their own" - Brooklyn Vegan writes about their collaborative new album 'May Our Chambers Be Full'.

Nothing released a leaned back and mighty 'Famine Asylum'; Aquiles Navarro & Tcheser Holmes dropped a great afro-beat jazzy 'Pueblo'; Chelsea Wolfe released a creepy cover of 'In Heaven' from David Lynch's classic 1977 film 'Eraserhead'; Cass McCombs assembled a powerful front with Angel Olsen, Bob Weir, and Noam Chomsky to send a 'Don’t (Just) Vote' message; Zack de la Rocha remixed Outkast's 'Bombs Over Baghdad', adding a rock-rap riff to it; Portrayal of Guilt melt post hardcore with black metal on 'It's Already Over'.

Production collective Quakers released 'Double Jointed', an ironic take on racism with; Broadcast celebrated the birthday of late Trish Keenan with a release of a simple a lovely song 'Where Are You?'; punks Stick To Your Guns released 'Hasta la Victoria', with powerful lyrics, and a Viktor Jara quote; Deerhoof made a covers album mixing snippets of songs by Voivod, Velvet Underground, Sun Ra, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Beach Boys, Morricone and many more - 'Love-Lore 2' is one of those; Zulu goes from metal ripper to afro-funk 'Now They Are Through With Me'; Dutch-Ghanian singer-songwriter Nana Adjoa deals with nationalism in democracy in 'National Song'; shoegazers Nothing emanate being lost in 'Bernie Sanders'.

Nothing released 'Say Less', powerful, pounding shoe-gaze new single; new Flaming Lips album is made for people wanting some more of psychedelia light, but 'Assassins of Youth' is a stand-out song in any cosmos; singer-songwriter Krystle Warren made a powerful statement about the struggle for Black equality with a cover of Kermit the Frog's 'Bein’ Green'; Off The Meds may eventually take some wrong steps along the way, but for now they're playing good, slightly dark club music - 'Karlaplan'; (fellow Swedes) Dark Tranquility play what they know best on 'Phantom Days' - melodic death metal; Delta Spirit released a new album, with a happy Americana 'It Ain't Easy' as a stand-out song.