The time has come to at long last grant Trompe le Monde its rightful title as the Pixies’s best album.
If Musgraves is going to be a pop star, Star-Crossed proves she’s doing it on her own terms.
Big Red Machine’s How Long Do You Think It’s Gonna Last? leans into traditional song structures and fully fleshed-out arrangements.
The album proves that McMurtry’s nearly peerless ability to tear our hearts out with a good yarn hasn’t waned a bit.
It takes profound empathy to write an album about your past and have it turn out to be about your love for others instead.
The album solidifies the Akron duo as one of the most vital and credible blues-rock bands active today.
The artist’s sixth solo album matches pitch-perfect ’70s-retro stylings with testy lyrical themes.
The album is a welcome, if predictable, reminder of the days when the guitar-driven verse-chorus song was king.
The album finds the band exploring new tones and textures without betraying their monolithic, thundering signature sound.
The album is an ambitious, dizzying jumble of genres and tones, held together on the power of the singer’s beguiling voice and charisma.
Though the band’s musicianship is in peak form, the album’s songwriting limits its impact.
The album is inexorably tied to lessons from the singer’s past—the reward of a long, strange trip.
It’s only the fleeting glimpses of the band’s more organic style that provide any lasting rewards.
The album’s unvarnished style generally works, but there’s nowhere to hide when the singer drifts into the saccharine.
The album has all the familiar hallmarks of the E Street Band’s signature sound.
The album combines childlike whimsy with sober realizations of all the sadness in the world.
The album is defined by surprising positivity in the face of, not only the troubled times of the present, but decades of life on the road.
The album strikes a deft balance between experimental and commercial, moody and uplifting.
The album offers a homey, bittersweet charm largely unique to the troubadour’s legendary catalog.
Overflowing with adventurous new ideas, the album opens up infinite new paths for the group to follow going forward.