Listening back to Yves Tumor’s breakthrough album, 2016’s Serpent Music, it’s hard to believe that four years later they’d be releasing Heaven to a Tortured Mind. Serpent Music was full of harsh noise and drones, counterbalanced by lush and spiritual beat loops, and while these sounds are definitely in the DNA of Heaven to a Tortured Mind, on this album they reconstruct them into mutant rock music. But while Yves Tumor the rock star is maybe unexpected, it’s a confident and assured transformation that’s resulted in one of the best collections of songs this year.

Elsewhere this week, Yaeji drops her debut mixtape, What We Drew; Empress Of is back with the self-referential I’m Your Empress Of; and Headie One teams up with Fred Again for the GANG mixtape, with help from Jamie xx, Sampha, FKA twigs, and more. Take a listen below.

EMPRESS OF, I’M YOUR EMPRESS OF

EVERYTHING IS RECORDED, FRIDAY FOREVER

HEADIE ONE X FRED AGAIN, GANG

MINOR SCIENCE, SECOND LANGUAGE

PURITY RING, WOMB

THUNDERCAT, IT IS WHAT IT IS

TOPS, I FEEL ALIVE

YAEJI, WHAT WE DREW

YVES TUMOR, HEAVEN TO A TORTURED MIND