Mississippi Son is Charlie Musselwhite’s crowning achievement, the kind of rarified synergy of craft and content that only the most veteran practitioners can accomplish. Toward…
Tape is a full-circle moment for Griffin, harkening back to her first album while demonstrating how her craft has lost none of its initial potency…
Khaza is an imperfect album that requires you get on its wavelength, but in leaning more into his pop sensibilities that before, Gates at least…
Horsegirl’s debut doesn’t quite distinguish itself from the influences it so enthusiastically sources, but there’s plenty here to suggest bigger and better things going…
Big Time feels like a the start of a new era for Angel Olsen, an reinvention record that realizes the sound it seems she…
Hard is pleasant, lightweight bit of pop that feels grander than the sums of its modest parts. Hard is Swedish synthpop artist Tove Styrke’s first…
Chicamacomico is another sturdy and workmanlike collection from an act that’s been awfully great for nearly two decades. With Turnpike Troubadours still in an…
Cruel Country can occasionally lapse into tedious shapelessness, but it’s low-key, easygoing charms feel largely organic and earned. For a while, it seemed like…
Shape Up’s boasts a catchy, assured first half, but ultimately suffers from too much bloat and poor sequencing. There’s a solid EP worth of…
Preacher’s Daughter suggests fascinating and unpredictable future stardom for Ethel Cain. Ethel Cain arrived right on time, America currently enraptured with the style and…
Dance Fever doesn’t deliver much danciness, but it does reflect an appealingly intimate pivot for Welch and co. After a four-year gap, Florence +…
Clocking in a bit overlong and failing to reach Flume’s previous artistic peak, Palaces is nonetheless a breezy, catchy listening experience. The latest artist…
Jack Harlow’s sophomore effort is a tedious affair to work through, built upon a disappointing collection of stock hip hop beats and routine bars.…
The Smile’s debut record may arrive with smaller stakes than its respective members’ flagship projects, but it compensates with a welcome agility and looseness…
Get on Board is a unique party record, a boisterous celebration of the folk-blues tradition that hoots and hollers with roiling joy. To hear Ry…
A Bit of Previous executes a fine balance of evolution and reminiscence, revisiting the sounds of their early career from an appealingly more aged perspective.…
No Fear of Time is a breezy, concise record that proves Bey and Kweli are still lively performers, even if it doesn’t do much to…
Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers is a thorny record of exorcised interiority that finds Kendrick Lamar contending with his own ugliness and cultural…