Fear of the Dawn finds Jack White as singular, strange, and knavish as ever, course correcting his recent musical missteps and settling into a pleasant and…
B.I.B.L.E. is evidence that the past year’s features king is only grinding for superstardom, sanding down any Brooklyn drill edges in favor of bland studio…
We’ve all been told not to look at the sun before. We’ll go blind, they said; they told us in explicit detail the permanent damage…
Contrary to popular belief — or, at least, contrary to the ongoing narrative at the time — Person Pitch was not Panda Bear’s first solo…
Mainstream Sellout finds MGK in accidental self-parody territory, failing to even deliver any slick pop punk hooks to soften this massive disappointment. Remember all those…
BabyTron is the rap hero we need, and MEGATRON continues his remarkable run. When all hope seemed lost for scam rap, the ShittyBoyz came to…
Vortex is as viscerally bracing as Noe’s previous efforts, but here also cut through with a new, impressive level of restraint. It’s become somewhat typical…
7220 skews quite commercial, but a persistent emotional core and littered lyrical Durk-isms make for an appealing record even in this imperfect form. To say that…
The only thing Better than You proves is that DaBaby and YoungBoy are better at putting out mid-tier music than most. The title of DaBaby…
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 doesn’t offer much for either the fetish crowd or kids looking for unencumbered adventure spectacle. Ever since bursting onto the scene in…
By all accounts, Raekwon’s Only Built 4 Cuban Linx… Pt. II should have been a complete failure. Delayed for almost four years (routinely a tell-tale…
Time Skiffs is the ideal type of reunion album. Catching up with old acquaintances, no matter how close they once were, can be a daunting proposition.…
Yeat is a welcomingly singular, eccentric addition to the hip hop world, but 2 Alivë is an overlong, humdrum affair that diminishes as the rapper’s novelty…
A smoothly stitched assemblage of narrative and documentary modes, Wood and Water rides a sedate wavelength to effortless but earned poignancy. The most endearing moments of Jonas…
On Dope Don’t Sell Itself, the king of 2010s features feels more than a little dusty, ironically shown up by every feature on the record. …
Train Again is yet another bold, precise, and transcendental work from Peter Tscherkassky. As InRO contributor Brendan Nagle once observed, the image — 24 of them…
While nowadays regulated to the lowly status of a legacy act, mainly trotted out whenever some late-night comedian wants to make some forced joke about…
Rock Bottom Riser is a work which regrettably shoehorns haptic political messaging into its otherwise incredible footage. Located somewhere in the Pacific Ocean — a body…
SICK! lacks any real sense of cohesion, making it an album that seems content with doing as little as possible. Over the past half-decade, Earl…
Antidawn may feel uneventful to the uninitiated, but for those who listen deeper, the rewards are rich. The defining characteristic of William Bevan’s 5-track Antidawn…
“Swimming in lakes and ponds one also drinks out of, and finding that everything that one sees is intimately linked to one’s body movements, constituted…