This is a fretful and ferocious record, lyrically much preoccupied with things having ended or appearing about to end, but musically much more blaze of glory than any kind of funeral pyre. Producer Andrew Watt helps the grunge stalwarts with what he did for The Rolling Stones last year: roll years back while avoiding parody.

Orchestras documents two inspired concert-hall engagements arranged by Michael Gibbs. Sweeping orchestration evoking landmark film scores and Gil Evans alike move nimbly within and around the trio’s telepathic rapport, and Frisell’s shimmering trademark tone melds gorgeously with symphonic strings and brass.

No need to fix what isn’t broken. For a decade plus, Cloud Nothings have delivered catchy, energetic songs without getting stale or repetitive. There’s something to be said for their ability to continue delivering hook-filled records with intelligent and heart-rending lyrics; and their latest installment, Final Summer, keeps that streak alive.

Based on the 2018 Broadway musical adaptation of the 2004 film. Features songs from the movie’s stars including Reneé Rapp as Regina George, Angourie Rice as Cady Heron, Auli’i Cravalho as Janis ‘Imi’ike, Avantika as Karen Shetty, and more. Includes “Not My Fault” by Rapp and rap superstar Megan Thee Stallion.

On Coup de Grace, Connie Sgarbossa’s most private and innermost thoughts are funneled through the lives of fictional characters within a noir-inspired world. Sgarbossa’s hold nothing back attitude combined with the band’s intensely dark blend of sasscore, punk, mathcore and metalcore, makes for profound and devastating listening.

Cometh The Storm is an absolute monster of an album, a ten-ton aural leviathan, a thundering colossus in audio form, the sonic equivalent of an end-times harbinger of death from the second the listener hits 'play' and is walloped into consciousness to the last dying strains of the final track as everything fades to black.