There’s genre-agnostic, and then there’s genre-defiant. Maverick saxophonist and composer Colin Stetson makes music that eschews boundaries, whether working as a sideperson to folks like Lou Reed, Bon Iver, and Arcade Fire, or reimagining Polish composer Henryk Górecki’s challenging Symphony No. 3. He advanced his own name writing haunting scores to left-of-center films and TV shows like Hereditary, The Menu, Uzumaki, and Color Out of Space – all of which feed into last year’s The love it took to leave you, a two-disc magnum opus of emotional atmosphere. God knows how it works live, but it’ll definitely be worth finding out. – Michael Toland