This round of songs still shimmer and poppily slide along for summertime listening - but the lyrics hit home. 'Dreamland' is an apt title for the album - a hazy forest of sounds that sharpen and fade thru stories of former friends, regrets, and snippets of memories that are gone before you can fully grasp them.

On this record we find Lianne paring down the dense production and sonic ambition of her earlier records and letting the songs sit center stage. With this new self-titled effort we have an artist delivering an album length autopsy on a failed relationship with unflinching honesty: the good, the bad, the carnal and thank god, the funky.

'The Waterfall II' winds up standing strong not only as a companion to 'The Waterfall,' but among the rest of the My Morning Jacket library, and will serve as an excellent soundtrack to our remaining summer evenings.

Margo Price doesn't easily fit in to the Nashville music machine, but it hasn't stopped her from carving out a name for herself in a highly competitive country/Americana music scene.

The Beths pour their energy into 10 songs that touch on coming of age and reflect on leaving home following the band's breakout in 2018.

The album was recorded at Pachyderm Studios in Cannon Falls, MN, and at the late Ed Ackerson's Flowers Studio in their native Minneapolis. It sounds like the 'hawks may have used some of Ed's toys on the track, "Homecoming," which features Gary Louris' guitar, hints of psychedelia and a sunny Laurel Canyon vibe.

Throughout the record, HAIM navigate heartbreak, the wobbly uncertainty of personal growth, and the vast lands of loneliness - coming together for each other, and for us. The instrumentation is full of enticing restraint, grasping listeners with sharp arrangements that stay with you even after the record has ended.

'Rough and Rowdy Ways' is Dylan's first album of new material in 8 years, and easily one of his strongest releases of the 21st century.

Phoebe Bridgers delivers a gorgeous sophomore studio effort that's packed with raw emotion, honestly, angst, and humor.

Ahead of their times at all times, Run The Jewels deliver anthems for 2020 filled with hair raising passages and an allstar list of collaborators from 2 Chainz, Pharrell Williams, Zack De La Rocha and Mavis Staples.