After Hours still revels in The Weeknd’s familiar hedonistic lyrical content, but also evinces an unexpected artistic progression. 2020For the better part of the last decade,…
Fiona Apple’s Fetch the Bolt Cutters might be her greatest yet: a confrontation of trauma and exhibition of musical excellence. Eight largely reclusive years later and Fiona…
Notes on a Conditional Form is a marathon of an album and the latest evidence of The 1975’s status as a singles band. With Notes…
I Disagree is a ferocious pop album and a defiant, artistic declaration of autonomy. Just who even is Poppy? There are a few floating ideas, vague…
Grimes Not since Bjork’s 1997 watershed Homogenic has a weird pop artist cast a masterpiece in the mold of Miss Anthropocene: a fusion of progressive sonics, compelling…
Built to Spill’s latest is a celebration of Daniel Johnston that regrettably undermines the best of both parties. The ethical conundrum that surrounds Daniel Johnston’s…
Ghostpoet’s latest is a moody, atmospheric haunted house of an album that represents another step in his artistic evolution. Ghostpoet has always been a serious artist; both thematically…
Shutting Down Here represents a clear advancement of O’Rourke’s familiar ideas and is one of richest sonic achievements. In a recent interview, Jim O’Rourke called his…
Charity albums don’t have to sacrifice quality, and Mall Grab’s Don’t Keep the Fire Burning is evidence. Mark Newlands wants to punch you in the face…
Mestarin kynsi is Oranssi Pazuzu’s grandest achievement, a cohesive nightmare symphony of mystical dread. Located somewhere near the depths of the Mariana Trench and dragged thousands…
Honey Harper Honey Harper isn’t yet a big name. But if you’ve had any exposure to the musician, you’ll know of his reputation as the…
Honey Harper’s Starmaker offers a delicate, otherworldly reimagining of country music. Honey Harper isn’t yet a big name. But if you’ve had any exposure to the musician,…
After recent collaborative albums, Punisher shows Phoebe Bridgers to be a complex and preternaturally formed artist in her own right. At this point, Phoebe Bridgers…
Yves Tumor’s latest realizes an androgynous vision of rock ‘n roll and continues their morphology as an artist. It’s hard to imagine an artist reinventing…
Heavy Light sets the bleak landscape of contemporary society to the sounds of bubblegum pop. Meg Remy understands human struggle. On Heavy Light, the newest U.S.…
Songs for Our Daughter is another in a run of lyrically-precise, sonically-varied Laura Marling efforts. Songs for Our Daughter, Laura Marling’s seventh LP, finds the folk…
KiCk i is lame and tame — a pop-forward album of limited imagination and experimentation. It’s been a busy last few years for Alejandra Ghersi. In-between…
Phoebe Bridgers At this point, Phoebe Bridgers seems unstoppable. While Punisher is only her second solo studio album, she’s been busy since her 2017 debut…
City on Lock is a warm-up round for the heights City Girls are sure to ascend to. City Girls are a hyper-feminine performance, and a bit…
The Deluxe edition of Eternal Atake adds a wrinkle of inequity to the album’s two halves, but it remains an fascinating document of Uzi’s evolution as…
An album a decade-plus in the making, A Written Testimony is Jay Electronica’s thumping autobiography and manifesto. For most of the past decade, Jay Electronica has been…