Entering Heaven Alive is Jack White’s most symphonic release in roughly a decade, while also a contender for his least compelling. Jack White’s in love; or,…
Sabrina Carpenter Sabrina Carpenter’s newest album, Emails I Can’t Send, has a lot of emotions to unpack and not enough tools to do it with.…
Surrender is a sophomore success that finds Rogers settling into herself as a person and as an artist. Maggie Rogers, fresh off a new master’s degree…
Emails I Can’t Send is a sonically unfocused record that lacks successful production choices, but it also delivers one of the year’s top pop singles. Sabrina…
You Still Here, Ho? is more of the same for Flo Milli, but that same is littered with small pockets of joy and Milli’s reliably dexterous…
The liner notes for The Chicks’ third album, Home, included a photo of a marquee with giant block letters declaring, “We are changing the way…
Special is an undeniably imbalanced record, but it’s saved by the strength of its intimate back-half and b-sides. “Hiii, motherfucker, did you miss me?” begins…
Kingmaker is Neilson’s finest record yet, and a strong argument that she might herself be the current king of country music. Kingmaker, the sixth studio…
The confident, even brazen, Red & White is further proof that Lil Uzi Vert has the uncanny ability to stay one step ahead of us…
Wormrot’s latest is an agonizing and extraordinary blend of grindcore, black metal, and screamo, coupled with surprising emotional complexity. After their blistering 2016 album Voices,…
Jack in the Box is a nostalgic, joyous riff on classic hip hop sounds, and a blueprint for how to go solo with swagger. Hot…
Lizzo “Hiii, motherfucker, did you miss me?” begins the first song on Lizzo’s newest album, Special. And, honestly, given that a lot of big-name artists…
Renaissance doesn’t rise to the heights of more personal records like Beyoncé and Lemonade, but it’s complex deep house influence still makes a persuasive case for the…
Take it Like a Man isn’t a flawless record, but it has the swagger and the confidence of an artist who knows she’s struck a…
X isn’t close to a successful record, but it does prove that Ken Carson has tapped into an enticing sound that could lead to a more…
With Emotional Creature, Beach Bunny bucks the trend of TikTok music vapidity and delivers an impressive, sincere indie rock record. With Emotional Creature, Beach Bunny’s second…
Beyoncé Dropping just over a month after Drizzy’s divisive, house music-inflected megamix, listening through Beyoncé’s sinuous dance record might provoke commentary like the text that…
Spirit of Ecstasy is a difficult and deliberately provocative work of avant-garde experimentalism, but is further proof of Imperial Triumphant’s ability to back up even…
Curtis Mayfield’s soundtrack for Super Fly, Gordon Parks Jr.’s 1972 debut feature and one of the most popular and best known films of the blaxploitation…
Honestly, Nevermind is Drake’s best record in a half-decade, a monumental work of pop music-making and a welcome disruption of his grab-bag approach to album construction.…