Cymbals Eat Guitars

This Staten Island crew used to draw equally from shoegaze and post-hardcore until its gritty, grandiose 2014 album LOSE skewed toward those latter tendencies and added an ear for snappy pop melodies along the way. Its most recent release, 2016's Pretty Years, is full-on rock 'n' roll, with sax solos à la Springsteen and scratchy electric keyboard straight from a ’70s Bowie tune.