Meek Mill Meek Mill owes his entire career to fortunate circumstances: as in, he regularly talks a big game online about how he’s one of the “top dogs” of the industry, but it’s difficult to accurately pinpoint exactly where he currently stands within hip-hop…
The War on Drugs has always been indebted to the sounds of rock’s yesteryear, but here only recall the better works in their own discography. Despite the out-of-time quality of their music, the origins of The War on Drugs — the studio project of…
Projector relies too heavily on sonic referencing, but is a highly listenable debut that holds promise for a more singular future for Geese. Fresh out of their senior year of high school, Geese comes ripping onto the scene with their buzzy debut Projector, a post-punk…
Pins & Needles is a star-making turn for Hemby, the rare gimmick-free studio debut that simply rips. You probably know a lot of Natalie Hemby songs, even if you don’t know that they are Natalie Hemby songs. To call her either a game collaborator or…
Trying Not to Think About It is a mature, introspective pop album, and definitive proof that JoJo is here to stay. JoJo’s 2020 album Good to Know wasn’t a comeback, exactly — her real comeback was 2016’s Mad Love, her first studio album released since…
Expensive Pain proves that absent external conflict motivating him, Meek Mill is only able to operate on unappealing auto-pilot. Meek Mill owes his entire career to fortunate circumstances: as in, he regularly talks a big game online about how he’s one of the “top dogs”…
Punk is a jumbled, inconsistent mess, and the latest misstep from a once-great artist to now regularly makes them. What does one expect from Young Thug in 2021? Since his arrival onto the contemporary hip-hop landscape nearly a decade ago, he’s managed to accomplish nearly…
Let Me Do One More isn’t quite as sonically succinct as past Illuminati Hotties records, but it’s rich in its emotional contours and progressions. Producer and sound engineer extraordinaire Sarah Tudzin is back with her second full-length album, and third release as Illuminati Hotties, Let…
You Get It All is Carll’s best work since his debut, every track here an outright winner. An artist whose rapturous reception in his early career seemed to sit uneasy with him, Hayes Carll has often struggled to release albums with coherent points of view…
Notable about Lil Wayne and Rich the Kid’s collab on Trust Fund Babies is just how much fun they’re having here in a natural, impromptu kind of way. The prospect of a collaborative effort from Lil Wayne and Rich the Kid is not a low-stakes project.…