Expensive Pain proves that absent external conflict motivating him, Meek Mill is only able to operate on unappealing auto-pilot. Meek Mill owes his entire career to…
Punk is a jumbled, inconsistent mess, and the latest misstep from a once-great artist to now regularly makes them. What does one expect from Young Thug…
Let Me Do One More isn’t quite as sonically succinct as past Illuminati Hotties records, but it’s rich in its emotional contours and progressions. Producer and…
You Get It All is Carll’s best work since his debut, every track here an outright winner. An artist whose rapturous reception in his early career…
Notable about Lil Wayne and Rich the Kid’s collab on Trust Fund Babies is just how much fun they’re having here in a natural, impromptu kind of…
The latest live recording of A Love Supreme is a revelation, with Coltrane blowing the standards to smithereens. For decades, the only known live recording of…
Young Thug What does one expect from Young Thug in 2021? Since his arrival onto the contemporary hip-hop landscape nearly a decade ago, he’s managed…
These Things Happen Too is a dud of an album, full of performative soul-bearing and rife with G-Eazy’s insecurity about his rap credentials. By the time…
G-Eazy By the time Macklemore (and Ryan Lewis) got around to making their second, career-killing album, This Unruly Mess I’ve Made, it had already been…
Despite venturing into LP-length territory for the first time, Doma sees Rikhter as forceful and focused as ever. The R Label Group — a boutique music distribution…
HEY WHAT proves that even down a bandmember, Low is still one of the best at perpetual, successful reinvention. Fresh off of another lineup change, Low…
Renewal perfectly articulates Billy Strings’ wunderkind facility with both traditional and progressive bluegrass bona fides. Bluegrass remains the most doggedly conservative — from a formalist perspective,…
Certified Lover Boy finds Drake is simply going through the motions, an album that sounds just like his last couple, but with even less of…
The Servant is another stunning piece of evidence that Shelby Lynne can do pretty much anything as a singer and record-maker. Following the genre-bursting bravura of…
In the Meantime is a bit overstuffed with filler, but Alessia Cara’s latest makes for a pleasant background companion in our present reality. Alessia Cara made…
Texis is a little too uniform, but is proof that Sleigh Bells understands their own strengths, even if it doesn’t do much to further their sound.…
29: Written in Stone is the best mainstream country album of the year and feels like the moment where Carly Pearce has come into her own…
Drake Drake — the artist, the brand, the living meme — goes through the motions these days. Why? Because he knows that he’ll be handsomely…
Sincerely, Kentrell is a senselessly assembled product, not without artistry, but lacking in a coherent vision. “YB better.” This simple phrase has become a rallying cry…
A Beginner’s Mind is an impressive collaborative work, one that beautifully reclaims the sounds and emotional heft of Stevens’ mid-aughts folk efforts. As our collective nostalgia…
The Yearbook immediately situates Baby Queen at the fore of contemporary pop. Baby Queen (real name Arabella Latham) debuted in the pop music scene in 2020…