As far as dance music goes, tracks like “Apologies” are as dance-floor-ready as anything being produced by, say, Oakenfold these days.
With the possible exception of “That Time,” with its repetitive, Alanis-style lyrics, there’s an underlying hope to Regina Spektor’s music.
It’s not surprising that Owen Pallett would set out to “modernize” D&D’s eight schools of magic.
The album is like a warm cup of milk before bed.
You can tell that the brief but potent career of Jeff Buckley has impacted yet another European singer-songwriter.
Scandinavian prog-rock outfit Paatos’s second album proper defies its title and explodes out of the gate.
The songs are augmented with so many musical embellishments that it’s like Ford is compensating for some vital, proverbial missing ingredient.
Henry Binns and Sam Hardaker manage to keep things fresh, creating an eclectic but consistent lounge filler.
There’s no refuting the utter beauty of Adem’s songwriting.
So Amazin’ proves to be anything but.
Unfortunately, nothing else on A Girl Like Me matches the audacity of “SOS.”
LL Cool J’s latest eponymous release, Todd Smith, finds the rap vet surrounded by an all-star line-up.
One can’t help but feel like the album is a calculated attempt at regaining the audience Pink lost with Try This.
Brun’s songs are a throwback to traditional folk while at the same time keeping one foot firmly planted in the no-longer-neo neo-folk movement.
Prince revisits the past on 3121, reinventing his previous glories rather than creating something completely new.
Each season, at least one group ostracizes one of its members on the grounds that he or she is “unmanageable,” “mentally unstable,” or “an angry black woman.”
In My Own Words might pale next to Legend’s stellar debut, but, even at its Robert Kelly worst, it’s not hateable.
The Devics’s music is chamber pop at its most lush and dreamy
While Sound & Vision doesn’t sport any new studio material, the album does boast three previously unreleased tracks.
Hello Waveforms is an apt title for William Orbit’s seventh full-length release.