Look to the East, Look to the West (Merge Records). Review by Bob Pomeroy.

The mysterious Orville Peck is a modern cowboy marvel, a rare and legendary masked man with a dusty guitar and a lonesome coyote howl.

Coriky is three musicians crumpling up their resumes, throwing them to the floor, and showing you exactly what they can do.

Everybody’s Insecure (Bar/None). Review by Bob Pomeroy.

(I Can’t Get No) Stevie Jackson (Banchory Records). Review by Carl F Gauze.

Song Islands Vol. 2 (PW Elverum & Son). Review by Matthew Moyer.

Let Me Come Home (4AD). Review by Jeff Schweers.

Christmas, Thanks For Nothing EP (Moshi Moshi ). Review by Matthew Moyer.

Measures. Review by Jeff Schweers.

Skin Collision Past. Review by Jeff Schweers.

Are You My Mother? (File Under Music). Review by Sean Slone.

Sondre Lerche soothes Orlando with his broad-palette approach to folk music – but don’t even think about catnapping during his set.

Two Sunsets (Domino). Review by Matthew Moyer.

Popular Songs (Matador Records). Review by Laura Pontillo.

Musical duos have become their own genre, much in the same way the Beatles helped define the bass, drums, guitars rock quartet. Matthew Moyer looks inside the husband/wife duo of Lullatone to explore the seriousness of toy instruments and just how much babies love Busta Rhymes.

Cut (Affairs of the Heart). Review by Matthew Moyer.

Bricolage (Slumberland). Review by Carl F Gauze.

Replica Sun Machine (Wall of Sound). Review by Bob Pomeroy.

The Hazards of Love (Capitol). Review by Matt Parish.