BROCKHAMPTON When Kevin Abstract pensively observed that “It’s kinda sick and I was born in 1996 and 1999 the only year that I remember,”…
Giddens and Turrisi’s latest collab is an intimate, interior record that beautifully blurs its sonic lines. Rhiannon Giddens may not be the only musician…
Freedom. is a platitude-heavy onslaught of alternately generic and sympathy-seeking songwriting that makes for a wholly embarrassing EP. Offering a second helping of solipsistic…
Sweep It Into Space is more self-aware tinkering than substantial reinvention, but it affirms that the rockers suitably understand their own strengths. At this…
Gojira’s latest record is their least brutal, but also arguably their most cohesive, mature effort to date. Five years after they released 2016’s Magma,…
Lovato has clearly evolved as a person and seeks to lyrically contend with her traumas, but her music hasn’t done much growing. It’s often…
Rhiannon Giddens & Francesco Turrisi Rhiannon Giddens may not be the only musician who recorded an album during lockdown, but she may be one…
Slime Language II boasts grace notes here and there, but is largely a disorganized, overlong effort from the talented team. What’s changed for YSL (Young…
Lei Line Eon reflects a satusfying compromise between the demands of dance-pop and the new worlds Iglooghost has imagined beyond. Since the release of Neō…
Taylor’s Version is an unnecessary work, but one that remains fascinating in the way an older, more experienced Swift slightly reshapes these songs of innocence.…
This new release from Godspeed You! Black Emperor signals a return to the ideological and politically-fueled sounds of their earlier ventures. Godspeed You! Black…
Superwolves once again brings together two seasoned musicians for a lonesome, but fruitful collaboration. Superwolves is the convergence of two massively prolific careers, 16…
Young Stoner Life Records What’s changed for YSL (Young Stoner Life) Records since their last compilation album, Slime Language, was released in late 2018?…
DEACON doesn’t match the memorable, eerie energy of soil, but is still mostly successful as an articulation of serpentwithfeet’s new, breezy era (interlude?) of…
The Moon and Stars is a masterful, singular effort and career apogee for Valerie June. As Miles Davis once said, “Sometimes it takes you…
Green to Gold represents a mostly successful sonic and lyrical calming of the storm for The Antlers. Seven years after their last album, The…
Haram reflects an impressive collab between the disparate sonics of Armand Hammer and The Alchemist, even if it’s not a peak for either party.…
Playground in a Lake is an album of dull noodling and banal soap-boxing, offering little to digest with any measure of seriousness. Clark’s Playground…