Leanne Macomber wrote these songs over seven years and Joel Ford polished them. Ejecta's debut is her diary in '80s synth-pop, best when it is saddest.
Mac DeMarco made his first full album alone, on eight tracks of tape in a Montreal apartment, and dropped the slowed-down croon. It became his breakout.
TOPS spent 2016 in a house in Glendale and made their third album there, while Penny and Carriere's long relationship ran its course. It's a sharper record for it.
Uniform made their second album without a drummer: bombs for kick drums, gunshots for snares, and eight songs about people who can't stop.
