These songs may not have been in my top picks but they still deserve notice in their own right.

Sleepy trip-hop, atmospheric indie-electronic, religious experimental folk, harrowing post-punk/EBM, mournful folk & experimental electronic rock.

Incendiary hip-hop, soaring shoegaze, aggressive indie-rock, poignant synth-wave, thought-provoking emo & atmospheric rock.

Soulful hip-hop, lo-fi psychedelia, ambient dub, soaring electronic pop, abstract electronica, and otherworldly neo-folk.

Ominous ambience, funky hip-hop, pan-global instrumentals, crushing electronica, elegant post-punk, and forlorn post-rock.

If a song like this played on the radio today, it would result in outrage from multiple points on the cultural spectrum — though for different reasons.

I can’t imagine food alternatives really stacking up to the simple-yet-sublime pleasures of freshly picked strawberries.

Daredevil isn’t just a hero’s origin story; it also chronicles the tragic, sobering evolution of a supervillain.

Stripped of his usual pomp, Sufjan’s latest explores his relationship with his troubled mother with grace, compassion, and brutal honesty.

Makeup & Vanity Set’s Matthew Pusti discusses his new album’s origins, its accompanying short film, the legacy of the ’80s, and much more.

Blog networks can be powerful tools, but they’re only as good as the support they offer their bloggers, and there’s plenty of room for improvement there.

Using Craft’s custom fields, you can build a very flexible system for managing your site’s assets.

Post-punk shoegaze, confessional ballads, solo piano, psychedelic pop, and more. Oh, and Weird Al as well.

Acoustic folk, emo done right, soulful electronic pop, twee, ’80s synth ballads, hip-hop, and more.

Swirling shoegaze, Christian psych-rock, dark ambient and industrial, ’80s-style disco pop, and more.

It’s a landmark album, but more importantly, it’s a beautiful album, and time has done nothing to change that.

Time seems to stand still whenever Low’s debut album is playing; listening to it is as much an act of meditation as anything else.

I might want to live an epic life of greatness, but I’m not sure I can. Furthermore, I’m not even sure that I’m supposed to want to live such a life.

All I can think is that I’ve waited two decades for this moment… and it is everything I could’ve hoped for.

Reflections on Opus’ first 15 years, plus a reading list of some of Opus’ best articles, reviews, and interviews to date.