The artist’s least celebratory album to date, Spirituals is nonetheless ornate and often frenetic.
A potent sense of artistic and existential dissatisfaction permeates the synth-pop band’s eighth album.
In keeping with its title, the prolific Louisiana rapper’s fourth album plays like the end of an era.
On her seventh album, the singer displaces us from both history and the present and situates us in her unique ecosystem.
The album attempts to bridge a number of gaps in a way that can feel bland and devoid of context.
The scope of the 80-minute, 23-track album allows the rapper-singer to explore the full breadth of his romantic and sexual proclivities.
The album is part of a now decades-long roll-out attesting to the rapper’s bravado—and we’re not complaining.
Bartees Strange attempts to carve out a sonic palette of his own on much of his second studio album.
The Swedish singer-songwriter’s fifth album is her sparest and most unadorned effort to date.
The album is a gripping treatise on the relationship between Lamar’s inner turmoil and the cultural landscape.
Wet Tennis stages a 35-minute dance party that’s tempered, as well as bolstered, by notes of reflective melancholy.
Father John Misty’s Chloë and the Next 20th Century chases love as its guiding subject but too rarely feels amorous or sensual.
On Gifted, Koffee alternates between earnestly expressing her gratitude to be alive and confidently resting on her laurels.
Charli XCX’s Crash finds the pop singer workshopping the reckless abandon of her persona.
Spoon’s Lucifer on the Sofa gestures toward breaking free of old habits, but it doesn’t present any new ones.
Animal Collective’s Time Skiffs is the work of a band who are leaning into the nostalgic observations that come with age.
Ultimately, MØ’s Motordrome has a way of getting your attention and failing to keep it.
Blue Banisters further fleshes out Lana Del Rey’s increasingly colorful personal world.
Mickey Guyton’s Remember Her Name satisfies pop-country standards even as it defies the genre’s institutional roadblocks.
The boundaries between earnestness and camp are blurred, but the album retains the rapper’s sensitive, playful personality.