Rolling Stone’s Kevin O’Donnell breaks down two of the year’s best indie records in this week’s New Music Report: the Low Anthem’s Oh My God, Charlie Darwin and the Dirty Projectors’ Bitte Orca. What do the bands have in common? They’re both Ivy League-educated and RS Breaking artists (Dirty Projectors are featured in the new issue, as well as here).

Providence-based the Low Anthem fill their second album with folk and Americana tracks stocked with plenty of harmonium and banjos. “The Horizon Is A Beltway” is a standout on Oh My God, Charlie Darwin, which earned a three-star review. Dirty Projectors, whose mastermind Dave Longstreth oversaw an album of quirky, shape-shifting tracks that draw from R&B, classical music and prog-rock. Watch the video above to check out the disc’s highpoint, the catchy “Stillness of the Night.”

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