Barragán

It's been four years since NYC-based trio Blonde Redhead released their last album, Penny Sparkle. If a first listen of Barragán is anything to go by, the band have spent that time sharpening their tools for a more brutal, experimental songwriting tact, trading in their ethereal synth pop for a sparse and savage atmosphere instead.

Still retaining a strange, subtly engulfing sound, guitarist/vocalist Amedeo Pace, drummer Simone Pace and guitarist/vocalist Kazu Makino's ninth studio album was produced, engineered, and mixed by Drew Brown (Beck, Radiohead, The Books, Lower Dens), and features the distorted disco of Dripping, the desolate, Sonic Youth inspired No More Honey and closes on the nightmarish Seven Two.