Clockwise from top left: Ethel Cain, Balmorhea, Shaun Ross, The Parrots, Tom McGuire & The Brassholes, and Sorry. Let RIFF pick your playlist! This week’s highlights include a gleefully creepy Midwestern gothic tune by Ethel Cain, Balmorhea’s beautifully hypnotic sound and Sorry’s two-minute smoke break. *** Sorry, “Cigarette Packet” — At only…

Every week, there’s a plethora of new music at our fingertips. Artists on platforms such as Spotify and Bandcamp are plentiful, and the radio offers a steady deluge of new singles, but who has time to sort through all that? RIFF does! We pooled our resources to find some of the best…