Circle is the first full album by Onew, member of K-pop boy group SHINee, who debuted as a soloist in 2019 with the ballad-heavy Voice…
Just as rock music has fallen out of fashion, Yves Tumor has become increasingly insistent on performing it. What does it mean to become a…
The real story with Endless Summer Vacation might be that this is the album where pop’s forever fickle princess finally finds her sound. In truth,…
Iris DeMent likes to play the long game. When the Pentecostal-raised but avowedly agnostic 31-year-old from Kansas City, Missouri, made her John Prine-cosigned debut on…
“It’s a cracked-screen world,” sings Damon Albarn on Cracker Island, the eighth studio album from everyone’s favorite cartoon band. Since 2001, Damon Albarn and Jamie…
Meghan Remy, mastermind behind the experimental pop project U.S. Girls, has been on a trajectory of constant evolution since she began releasing music under her…
A pop star has to store a number of secret weapons in her utility belt. Lots of people can sing and dance, but what sets…
It’s been ten years since Kelela’s debut mixtape, Cut 4 Me, earned rave reviews She’s since produced a semi-regular output, with her first proper LP,…
In nearly four decades, New Jersey’s Yo La Tengo have never taken a real break, with the smallest gap between records being a measly four…
Though it wasn’t actually that long ago, the pop music landscape into which Lil Yachty first emerged doesn’t really look the same as the one…
After an eight-year gap since her last solo record, Meg Baird has returned with Furling, a contemplative and fully-realized folk album that, on first blush,…
Heavy music polyglots Oozing Wound have made their name as thrash metal jokesters, the trio’s penchant for titles ranging from the humorously prosaic (“Everyone I…
Country music has a dark history of songs about killing your lover. Men want to kill their wives for cheating. Women want to kill their…
Keba Robinson has been releasing music under the Crosslegged moniker since 2011, when she released the album Bad Body Language. In the Bandcamp liner notes,…
Hot off the heels of last year’s exceptional Living Torch, Kali Malone has delivered an album version of the previous live exclusive Does Spring Hide…
Electronic music pioneer Ryuichi Sakamoto looks back on a long and illustrious career which spans six decades, a variety of collaborators and genres, and quite…
“Who do you think you’re looking at?… You’d better shut your mouth and stand back,” began GOT the Beat’s debut single, “Step Back,” released last…
With a history of quick turnaround releases, Belle and Sebastian stays true to form and follows up last year’s A Bit of Previous with Late…
The latest entry into the canon of psychedelic-trip records, Margo Price’s new album Strays tells the story of a person arguably at their most vulnerable…
Simply put: Julia Wu has established herself as one of the most consistent artists of the decade so far. The Australian-Chinese singer-songwriter has put out…