Ultrapop finds The Armed in peak form, cohering an onslaught of sound and influence into something of a new package for the mysterious group. Detroit…
Second Line continues Dawn Richard’s transitional phase, bridging a streamlined sound with her avant-garde style. Though well-received upon release, Diddy – Dirty Money’s Last Train to…
…jook ’til i die is evaboy’s grandest work, directing his nostalgia-bred sounds toward the future rather than indulging in rehash. As it currently continues to…
Course in Fable is Ryley Walker’s second superb effort of 2021, vastly different than his first but no less affecting. After a massively successful independent…
Nurture is album of human reckoning, mining personal darkness and coming out of the other side almost wholesome. Despite a multi-year creative drought, work with…
BROCKHAMPTON When Kevin Abstract pensively observed that “It’s kinda sick and I was born in 1996 and 1999 the only year that I remember,” on…
Don’t call it a comeback. Even though it was described in the press as such, the May 29, 1984 release of Tina Turner’s album Private…
Giddens and Turrisi’s latest collab is an intimate, interior record that beautifully blurs its sonic lines. Rhiannon Giddens may not be the only musician who…
Freedom. is a platitude-heavy onslaught of alternately generic and sympathy-seeking songwriting that makes for a wholly embarrassing EP. Offering a second helping of solipsistic pop…
Sweep It Into Space is more self-aware tinkering than substantial reinvention, but it affirms that the rockers suitably understand their own strengths. At this point,…
Gojira’s latest record is their least brutal, but also arguably their most cohesive, mature effort to date. Five years after they released 2016’s Magma, French…
Lovato has clearly evolved as a person and seeks to lyrically contend with her traumas, but her music hasn’t done much growing. It’s often said…
Rhiannon Giddens & Francesco Turrisi Rhiannon Giddens may not be the only musician who recorded an album during lockdown, but she may be one of…
In the opening scene of the music video for “What Have You Done for Me Lately,” the first single released from Janet Jackson’s 1986 blockbuster…
“Here is my music. It is all I have to tell you how I feel. Know that your love keeps my love strong.” This message…
Slime Language II boasts grace notes here and there, but is largely a disorganized, overlong effort from the talented team. What’s changed for YSL (Young Stoner…
Lei Line Eon reflects a satusfying compromise between the demands of dance-pop and the new worlds Iglooghost has imagined beyond. Since the release of Neō Wax…
Taylor’s Version is an unnecessary work, but one that remains fascinating in the way an older, more experienced Swift slightly reshapes these songs of innocence. “I…
This new release from Godspeed You! Black Emperor signals a return to the ideological and politically-fueled sounds of their earlier ventures. Godspeed You! Black Emperor,…
Superwolves once again brings together two seasoned musicians for a lonesome, but fruitful collaboration. Superwolves is the convergence of two massively prolific careers, 16 years…