Clancy’s Tavern is a fairly rote reiteration of the same album that Toby Keith has been re-recording once a year since 2005.
Guitar Slinger makes up for its lack of focus with some truly inspired songwriting and performances.
Coldplay’s Mylo Xyloto perpetuates at least some of the progressive influence that Brian Eno brought to their last album.
If she’s going to keep us waiting for her long-rumored Nashville album, she needs to make sure that her pop releases justify the procrastination.
The title track draws the dullness of the rest of Revelation Road into sharp relief.
At least Jonas and his team had the smarts to enlist producers who know how to construct solid pop songs.
Dixie Lullabies is a welcome reminder that Kentucky Headhunters are still one of the finest Southern-rock outfits around.
Ryan Adams goes full-on into sensitive troubadour mode on Ashes & Fire.
Next time out, Hawthorne may want to make use of Auto-Tune.
Bad Ingredients drags its relevant sense of political frustration and remarkable insight and empathy through the dirtiest of country and blues.
However gorgeous and warm the singer’s voice may be, the album is just too dull for her to overcome.
The album arrives amid considerable controversy and a host of serious questions about artistic license and record-label machinations.
Don’t Explain finally allows Hart to front a band worthy of her phenomenal voice.
Sincerity marks a refreshing change of pace for MacFarlane.
If there’s a knock on Sweetheart of the Sun, it’s in the individual lead vocals.
Blink-182 isn’t a band well-suited for maturity.
Lady & Gentlemen finds the singer taking real risks and making better music than many of her contemporaries.
Megafaun is an album that impresses for its maturity and smart aesthetic choices.
The more direct songs transcend the trappings of the album’s rigid construct.
Cattle Callin is a concept record whose concept is so deeply flawed that it never should’ve made it as far as the studio.