BANDITOS RIGHT ON
Like an Americana kaleidoscope, each twist and turn on Banditos’ third album creates another colorful shape, all bound together by a psychedelic strut. With Mary Beth Richardson’s electro-magnetic vocal out front, brawny garage rock and bluesy soul meet spaghetti Western, buzzy funk and more. (Available May 20.)
LANEY JONES STORIES UP HIGH
Applying a delicate shimmer to a landscape of gloomy indie pop, Laney Jones’ Stories Up High is both dreamy and downcast, and delivered with a defiant shrug. Spacious arrangements and soul-punk vocals are at turns inspired and inconsolable, filling Jones’s first album in six years with rainy-day grooves. (Available May 20.)
HIGH VALLEY WAY BACK
Canadian transplants High Valley continue their new- country evolution on Way Back, offering a bright set of pick-me-up pickup-truck jams. Adding a big injection of EDM to their bluegrass foundation and faithful brand of positivity, it’s family friendly Music Row pop on a Rocky Mountain high. (Available May 20.)
WILDEYES SHUT UP AND DANCE
Nashville trio Wildeyes shift gears for Shut Up and Dance, infusing their second album with more of the feral energy their name suggests. Lacing dreamy alternative rock and beat-laden pop propulsion into a hazy, ethereal Americana soundscape, theirs is a musical land untamed and unconquered. (Available May 20.)