Where has all the music gone?

I feel like I'm drowning in mediocre music lately.  Ray LaMontagne's Supernova, She & Him's Volume 3, the new Flyleaf's Between the Stars.  It just seems like I've been filling my iTunes with 3-star tracks.  SO, I am eager for something new and different and transcendent.

But, I recently started grad school, and I have taken on a media fast for financial…