Clockwise from top left: Aurora, Billy Strings, Honeyblood, Bon Iver, Sum-41, Tool, Opeth, 100 gecs, Subhumans and Lizzo. Welcome back to RIFF’s year-end album roundup! If you’re joining us just now, start with part one. Our album review staff is pretty musically diverse, which might explain why Opeth, Bon…

Glasgow’s Honeyblood started as a duo in 2012, but after two albums, founding member Stina Tweeddale has taken the reins on In Plain Sight.  She collaborated with producer John Congleton, who has worked with both contemporaries Angel Olsen and St. Vincent, a pair of artists who share Tweeddale’s talent for…