INDIGO DE SOUZA All of This Will End (Saddle Creek) — All of This Will End, the third album from Asheville, North Carolina resident Indigo De Souza, is effusive in its caustic cacophonies. De Souza is relentlessly candid in her lyrics, making every track come across like a secret she felt compelled to bark out in the middle of a crowded room of strangers, the details landing with equal parts shock and thrill. De Souza artfully merges the music to the seismic shiver of her words, starting from a foundation of scalded acoustic songwriting and building a structure of buzzy rock up from it. “You Can Be Mean” carries the spirit of nineteen-nineties of alternative rock, like a more laid back Veruca Salt. “Always” snaps together punk fury and semi-industrial static, and “Wasting Your Time” is thrillingly gnarled. The sheen of De Souza’s art aligns with some of the most towering of her contemporaries. For example, “The Water” feels like it could slide into the boygenius strategy binder of whip-smart winning plays. The album is a proper extension of the raw and wondrous creativity of De Souza. The above tracks are only the beginning. Check the following, too: “Time Back,” “Not My Body,” and the powerhouse closer “Younger & Dumber.”

THE NATIONAL First Two Pages of Frankenstein (4AD) — Nine albums and more than twenty years into their recording career, the National keeps finding ways to give a goose to their trademark glum assessments of the shuffling disappointments of life. First Two Pages of Frankenstein slots in nicely with the rest of the band’s output, distinguished mostly by the procession of guests who nicely lend their own distinct glows. Sufjan Stevens brings his forlorn elegance to album opener “Once Upon a Poolside,” and compulsive collaborator Phoebe Bridgers flashes her uncanny trick of standing out while simultaneously blending in on both “This Isn’t Helping” and “Your Mind Is Not Your Friend.” Most of the advance hullabaloo was about the presence of Taylor Swift, checking out the day job of her Folklore and Evermore producing partner Aaron Dessner, especially because she joined in on the songwriting of the track in question, “The Alcott.” All of those are dandy, but there’s plenty of proof that National can also get by without that little bit of help from their friends. Cuts like “New Order T-Shirt” show that all is right in the indie rock universe when Matt Berninger is plying his distinctive baritone on lyrics such as “I keep what I can of you/ Split-second glimpses and snapshots and sounds/ You in my New Order T-Shirt/ Holding a cat and a glass of beer.” Take these things National: “Eucalyptus,” “Tropic Morning News,” “Alien,” “Ice Machines,” and “Send for Me”