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The San Francisco band's garage-pop progressively unravels as a beautiful duo frolics on the beach.

Liza Anne cracks open the cage of anxiety she says she's lived in for most of her life with a seething, slow burn of a track.

From a musician at home in revolution, here is an album about the quiet insurgence of maturity.

Tagaq, an Inuk throat singer, marries modern pop with deeply-vested tradition to gobsmacking effect. The songs on her new album, Retribution, encompass terror, rage, ecstasy and bone-leeching sadness.

On her sixth album, the Norwegian singer Jenny Hval aims for impact, surrounding her vulnerable voice with spiky, disarming instrumentation that bolsters the intensity and intimacy of her songs.

The folk and bluegrass artist takes a big, bold step, writing darker, more mature material. With stylized images of her bare skin, the video reads like an exploration beyond previous comfort zones.

The L.A. trio's second album is a stalwartly positive collection of punky garage-pop songs, born of dire circumstances.

Norwegian singer-songwriter says her new single and video is "an homage...to early women's rights activists, neglected or underestimated when we praise our heroes and heroines through history."

The Spanish garage-pop band's debut is the sound of youthful energy, beginners' confidence and a group settling into exactly what it wanted to be all along.

A dreamy black and white video for the prettiest and most vulnerable song off the feminist punk band's last album, Time To Go Home.