Lingui is a middlebrow arthouse trifle that offends in its simplicity and deference to narrative convenience. Lingui, The Sacred Bonds, the latest from Chadian director Mahamat-Saleh…
4NEM is the latest proof that Chief Keef’s singularity and eccentricity are second to none in the world of hip hop. While there’s been little…
Live Life Fast is an anonymous bore of an album that rides of a wave of unearned ego. Roddy Ricch clearly thought he was in…
Fighting Demons is a feel-bad album that feigns rawness in order to avoid any meaningful consideration of Juice WRLD’s legacy. Fighting Demons, the second posthumous…
Who is Nardo Wick? is a successful enough introduction to the eponymous rapper, superficial but with personality to carry him forward. Just exactly Who Is…
On February 22 of 2021, a major musical rupture occurred: Daft Punk, the mythic French house duo, through an “Epilogue” video casually posted to their…
Expedition Content takes to task the supremacy of the visual in film, delivering a vibrant, versatile work of experimental ethnography. Ernst Karel and Veronika Kusumaryati’s Expedition Content…
#1. “Man, tell them haters open up the jail (Open up the jail) And you can tell my baby mamas, “Get the bail money” (Bail…
#7. Arriving at the tail end of 2020 — Christmas Day, to be exact — to the bewilderment of fans and skeptics alike, Playboi Carti’s Whole…
#25. “Say like The Black Album was like The Black Movie. So the soundtracks are like scores to scenes that’s going on in the movie. This…
Despite some kinks, Converge’s partnership with Chelsea Wolfe shows a promising new direction for the band. Converge has always been an outfit that has prided…
An Evening With Silk Sonic is exactly as tame and lame as a Bruno/Anderson collab seems like it would be — frivolous, unambitious, inoffensive. The visual…
The only thing They Got Amnesia proves is why we all forgot about French Montana in the first place. “For the next game, you need to…
The Last Son is ill-conceived and one-dimensional, yet another bid at mining a the Western mythos that trades only in outmoded tropes and iconography. Playing like…
Weight of the World finds Maxo Kream once again improving his sound, carrying through his evolving maturity with ever-present swagger. Lately, Maxo Kream has been feeling…
The latest entry into the “quarantine art” canon, Project Space 13 is just another empty film with nothing substantive to say about our present moment.…
Tech N9ne still has technical proficiency to spare, but Asin9ne is both undercooked and overstuffed, offering no reason for the rapper to retain relevance. It…
Penny Lane’s Listening to Kenny G is a work of discursive extrapolation, a probing work that finds in the artist’s divisiveness some interesting threads worth pulling. Saxophonist…
Benedetta is as bawdy as any Verhoeven on paper, but the director’s uncharacteristically meek directorial approach renders the film far tamer than it should be.…
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…