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.…
Clocking in at 84 minutes, Once Twice Melody retains Beach Houses’ incredible knack for wistful pop melody. While any number of their contemporaries have stumbled and faded, or…
Despite being a contractually obligated record, Laurel Hell nonetheless proves successful in landing its messaging. Following a genuine attempt to quit music altogether, Mitski returns with Laurel…
Spoon Though we are emerging from Q1 2022 on shaky ground globally speaking, this recent past has already been canonized as a banner micro-era elsewhere…
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…
Love Sux finds Avril Lavigne blending her punk and bubblegum influences to the best effect in ages. When Let Go, Avril Lavigne’s debut album, was released…
Zeal & Ardor continues the band’s streak of novel genre blending, even if their deficiencies of meaningful innovation are clearer than ever. Metal outfit Zeal &…
Over 20 years on, I Am Shelby Lynne’s reissue reasserts the record a lynchpin in the artist’s catalog, and produces bonus material that matches the…
Requiem maintains Korn’s reliable floor, even as the record feels notably too safe. A remarkably consistent band, all things considered, Korn is still with us in…
Avril Lavigne When Let Go, Avril Lavigne’s debut album, was released twenty years ago, it arrived with the force of an earthquake. The artist was…
Donda 2 is an essential Ye album even in its likely unfinished form, taking his curative, experimental approach to record-making to its most thrilling extreme…
Big Thief’s latest is yet another impressively cogent, boundary-shattering work from indie rock’s preeminent musicians. After double-dipping in 2019 with U.F.O.F. and Two Hands, Big…
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. …
Welcome to the Block Party is a buoyant, confident riff on the ’90s country-pop aesthetic. There’s nothing subtle about the title of Welcome to the Block…
Slut Pop is a dull novelty record about sex without much to offer beyond shock value and a desperate bid for naughtiness. In the past…
Kanye West A new Ye record means yet another round of gleeful denouncements from an increasingly frail, corporate press apparatus, solemn assurances that this time…
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…
The Weeknd might not be loved by all, but he knows how to ride a trend, and Dawn FM continues that streak. These days, Abel…
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…
Caprisongs signals FKA Twigs’ transition into something brighter and fun-minded, and hints at something grander to come. After the melodramatic heights of 2019’s Magdalene, it’s…