The Mobile, Alabama six-piece's third Dave Cobb-produced album is their most spiritually grounded yet. Recorded between Cobb's Savannah studio and historic RCA Studio A in Nashville, Grateful moves from the gospel-charged stomp of 'Demons In Your Choir' through the churning 'People Hatin'' to the tender 'If I Didn't Know You.' Eleven songs equally at home in dance halls and church steeples.

Staples' first Loma Vista album is 35 minutes of tightly coiled West Coast rap - spare, unsettling, and precisely engineered. Boom-bap beats underpin candid reckoning with fame, survival, and visibility. His third consecutive album to refine a vision with the confidence of someone with nothing left to prove and every reason to keep going.

Gibbard and company's first ANTI- Records release finds them in strong form. Produced by John Congleton in Los Angeles, I Built You A Tower is compact and emotionally direct - 38 minutes confronting grief and impermanence without flinching. 'Riptides' and 'Punching the Flowers' demonstrate the band's undiminished gift for melodic architecture.

Brock and company's eighth album - first independent release in over two decades via their own Glacial Pace label - returns to their Pacific Northwest experimental instincts after. Knotted philosophy, jerky rhythms, and psychedelic sprawl intact, lead singles 'Look How Far...' and 'Picking Dragons' Pockets' suggest a band energized by new freedom.

Union Made finds Ketch Secor at his most musically generous, featuring Molly Tuttle, Del McCoury, Luke Combs, Ziggy Marley, and Turnpike Troubadours' Evan Felker among others. As old-time, bluegrass, and Americana go, this feels as wide as America itself.

Amy Lee and Will Hunt return after five years with Evanescence's sixth studio album. Lee describes it as 'over three years in the making' and a personal sanctuary from 'a chaotic, surreal, violent time.' Lead single 'Who Will You Follow' heralds a World Tour already selling out arenas.

Horan's fourth solo album is his most personal, written about his girlfriend and inspired by the dinner party where they met. The 12-track set features no collaborations - just Horan's voice, his instinct for melody, and a sound that bridges folk-pop warmth with contemporary production. A career high.

The DC-born, London-based singer's newest deepens the promise of his acclaimed debut Come Around and Love Me. Ngonda's Motown-trained soul sensibility is even more refined here, his voice drawing comparisons to a young Marvin Gaye. The Daptone house band provides the impeccable analog foundation his songwriting demands. Definitive confirmation of major talent.

Lancaster metalcore veterans return to Fearless Records - the label that released their early catalog - with a record that rewards the reunion. Produced by Carson Slovak and Grant McFarland, Season of Surrender pairs technical precision and melodic intelligence with renewed urgency. Jake Luhrs' vocals and JB Brubaker's guitar work are as formidable as ever.