Director Craig Atkinson’s documentary explicates its points with blunt but persuasive efficiency.
Blood flows freely on Blood Bitch, a carefully composed collage album with a pronounced focus on body horror.
Away therefore stands as the dark flipside to the warm but complicated nostalgia of 2013’s The Silver Gymnasium.
Blonde is every bit the rich, densely layered album fans were expecting from Frank Ocean.
Chad Hartigan’s film is especially perceptive about the effect of external influence on personal development.
With Boy King, Wild Beasts stumbles into a garish new style that’s heavy on sweat, sex, and cynicism.
The film’s primary effect is to substantiate gossip, while satisfying the perverse human desire to gander at misery.
Andrzej Zulawski’s film experiment ranks somewhere between captivatingly off the wall and utterly exhausting.
Clocking in at nearly two hours, the album is a chock-a-block song cycle stuffed with concepts, textures, and ideas.
Thom Andersen attempts to establish unity by bridging vast swaths of film history into one cohesive body of work.
Beneath its typically oblique surface, the album registers as Radiohead’s most revealing work to date.
Pantha du Prince remains less interested in constructivist concept pieces than interlinked studies riffing on a consistent theme.
Audiard’s film struggles to overcome the burden of its over-simplified, moralizing setup.
Drake continues to reflexively balance out this egotism by dredging up old demons and initiating new beefs.
The album stands out as a network of echoes and reverberations.
Joachim Trier’s film is a parable that takes depression seriously as a condition and a state of being.
Dame Fortune is a reminder of how old-fashioned this type of album has become.
The reworking of a tired horror trope into a transformed feminist symbol is an impressive act of genre revisionism.
Its black humor is inextricably tied to serious questions about moral relativism and personal responsibility.
Segall remains less interested in fine-tuning a specific sound than endlessly experiment with new tools and attitudes.