To engage with the sprawling, twenty-eight-track behemoth that is Rellyo Bambini’s "Cloned & Upgraded, Insert Soul Here (Rebirth Edition)" is to willingly plug your neural pathways into a mainframe that is rapidly overheating. Most artists treat albums like curated dinner parties; Bambini has thrown a rave in a server farm where the dress code is 'Cyberpunk Baroque' and the appetizers are flavored like anxious...

Trick Shooter Social Club's "Television," isn't some shiny, manufactured anthem. It's a scratched-up record, the kind you pull out after a long day where everything tasted like cardboard and feels the same kind of worn in and comfortable. This Chicago outfit, led by Larry Liss and Steve Simoncic, they’ve bottled that feeling into a song about quiet corners and the kind of love that...