Ellie Goulding’s latest sees her transition from pure chart persona to an assured pop artist. In the five years since her last album, the excellent…
Lana Del Rey The prospect of a book of poetry from Lana Del Rey might seem, to anyone familiar with the songs that made her…
Deftones have somehow managed to remain relevant since they first emerged out of the nu-metal explosion of the late 1990s and early 2000s, but to…
After a nine-year absence, Bright Eyes returns with Down in the Weeds, Where the World Once Was, the group’s ninth LP and a shining reminder…
Protomartyr’s main draw has always been frontman Joe Casey. With all due respect to Greg Ahee’s wonderfully oblique guitarwork, Casey’s gruff sneer and erudite lyrics…
Electro-pop duo Sylvan Esso returns with their third LP, Free Love, an expression of both the joyous heights and dark depths that love can bring.…
Deftones Deftones have somehow managed to remain relevant since they first emerged out of the nu-metal explosion of the late 1990s and early 2000s, but…
Set My Heart on Fire Immediately finds Perfume Genius making both his body and heart vulnerable, creating a profound intimacy from his preoccupations with fragility. Michael…
Waxahatchee’s latest succeeds according to her familiar attention to emotional precision and in pivoting to a more Americana-leaning sound. After 2017’s dark and brooding Out…
Tame Impala’s latest does nothing to change the narrative that Parker’s emulation of other bands borders on unintentional parody. Kevin Parker is often praised for…
NO DREAM represents a thinning of Rosenstock’s post-2016 ethos. Jeff Rosenstock has spent the past decade or so getting flustered and yelling at a lot of…
Tame Impala Kevin Parker is often praised for his ability to take a sound that audiences are familiar with and contort it into something that’s…
“It has been quite a journey / From my driveway to my front door / It has been quite a journey.” Lil Wayne floats this…
What is there to say about DaBaby that hasn’t been articulated since he took the world by storm in 2019? He is a rapper of…
It must be hard being Marshall Bruce Mathers III, or so he’d like you to believe. According to him, and everyone who has defended him…
Alfredo, the latest collaboration between rapper Freddie Gibbs and legendary producer The Alchemist, is an absolutely ferocious album. Although the duo don’t have an extensive…
Four years ago, self-anointed King of the Teens Lil Yachty released the polarizing Lil Boat mixtape, and seemingly overnight (or, one could say, over “One…
Lil Wayne “It has been quite a journey / From my driveway to my front door / It has been quite a journey.” Lil Wayne…
Miss Anthropocene is the type of pop eccentricity that only an artist like Grimes could conceive of. Not since Bjork’s 1997 watershed Homogenic has a weird pop artist…
Translation is an unimaginative record of lazy appropriation and weak production. To put it as eloquently as possible: the Black Eyed Peas are stupid. That’s not…
Jessie Ware’s latest does exactly what pop should do — it innovates and bears beautiful reassurance. Jessie Ware nearly called it quits after 2017’s Glasshouse,…