10 New Albums You Should Listen to Now: Alchemical Sisters, Fine, Shabazz Palaces, and More

So insular is Fine Glindvad Jensen’s musical realm that one ends up reaching for increasingly tortured anachronisms just to map its periphery: Lana if she fronted the Warm Inventions, Hope Sandoval if she made Honeymoon, a Bond girl who’s also Julee Cruise. That’s not to say Jazz Dreams is unwelcoming; the second solo album from the Copenhagen artist known mononymously as Fine is plush, cozy even, steeped in paisley folk and jangle pop. But spend enough time in this incense-scented, velvet-upholstered lounge, and you may begin to see strange shadows crawling up the walls.Listen on Apple MusicListen on SpotifyListen on TidalListen on Amazon MusicListen/Buy at BandcampBuy at Rough TradeRyan Hemsworth: Numbskull [Topshelf]Longtime producer for the indie rock stars Ryan Hemsworth returns with his first solo album in nearly a decade to remind us what his own songwriting sounds like free from others’ ideas. Turns out, it’s caustic electropop, filtered through grainy fuzz, pop vocal hooks that could scale a mountain, and the type of slamming bass notes that could work just as well in EDM or synthpunk. Hemsworth doesn’t have anything to prove, though, which allows him to tap a few guest fe...