Dance Fever doesn’t deliver much danciness, but it does reflect an appealingly intimate pivot for Welch and co. After a four-year gap, Florence +…
Clocking in a bit overlong and failing to reach Flume’s previous artistic peak, Palaces is nonetheless a breezy, catchy listening experience. The latest artist…
Wilco For a while, it seemed like nothing ever came easy for Wilco. Early classics like Being There and Summerteeth bore the marks of…
Jack Harlow “Back when I was a young man / I liked them girls that was in the Abercrombie / I likеd them girls that…
Jack Harlow’s sophomore effort is a tedious affair to work through, built upon a disappointing collection of stock hip hop beats and routine bars.…
The Smile’s debut record may arrive with smaller stakes than its respective members’ flagship projects, but it compensates with a welcome agility and looseness…
Get on Board is a unique party record, a boisterous celebration of the folk-blues tradition that hoots and hollers with roiling joy. To hear Ry…
A Bit of Previous executes a fine balance of evolution and reminiscence, revisiting the sounds of their early career from an appealingly more aged perspective.…
No Fear of Time is a breezy, concise record that proves Bey and Kweli are still lively performers, even if it doesn’t do much to…
On the occasion of Paul McCartney’s 80th birthday, I decided to burden myself with the unforgiving task of writing about the Beatles. After trying…
Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers is a thorny record of exorcised interiority that finds Kendrick Lamar contending with his own ugliness and cultural…
Headful of Sugar finds Sunflower Bean leaning even further into trend-chasing and poptimist orthodoxy. When Tame Impala infused the indie music scene with its retro-futurist…
Despite a decade-long hiatus, 12th of June picks up right where Lovett’s sound left off, for better and worse. A full decade removed from…
Describing music as lulling you to sleep usually isn’t complimentary, but for the hushed, meditative world of Hypnos, it’s high praise. Hypnos is R&B singer-songwriter…
The highs on Harry’s House hit, but the record as a whole is sadly lacking in the charming crooner’s usual energy. One of the most compelling…
Kendrick Lamar Kendrick Lamar is not your savior; he’s not your messiah, not your go-to source for everyday wisdom, and he’s certainly not an…
Face the Sun is a progression for Seventeen, an altogether grander, more cohesive record that proves a wonderful addition to their stellar discography. Thirteen-member boy…
We is a considerable improvement on Arcade Fire’s dumpster of a past decade, predictably failing to reach the band’s heights but effective in spurts at…