The album gives voice to female rage in a way that finds truth in the ugliness.
The album feels like an assemblage of enjoyable ingredients that doesn’t coalesce.
Trippie Redd’s fifth studio album is repetitive, shoddily produced, and lacks any real structure.
The Canadian hardcore band manages to fit a surprising amount of stylistic variety into their shortest album to date.
The album blends English folk, American roots music, and shades of trip-hop in ways that are both heady and nebulous.
The garage-punk band skillfully strikes a balance between exuberance and introspection.
The album is an intriguing experiment in contrast and contradiction, marked by both absence and presence, noise and silence.
The band again serves up a variety of memorable hooks and abstract, knife-to-the-heart lyrics.
The album is a paradoxically delicate yet fearless plunge into the unknown.
The album continues in a classic rock-inspired direction, breaking from the neo-traditional country music that put the singer on the map.
The album proves that the punk icon not only has more to say, but continues to find exciting ways to say them.
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While the album’s title suggests a collection of songs rife with internal conflict, it rarely delivers on that promise.
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The Atlanta-based trio’s spin on familiar sounds feels both colossal and tossed-off.
The singer’s sophomore effort is an unwieldy, unruly, and, at times, deeply beautiful album.
With an industry in a constant state of flux, the battered-but-not-beaten album format still reigns supreme.
Dig in, whether you’re hearing these songs for the first time or the hundredth.
As a concept album about good and evil, Heroes & Villains mostly delivers.
The album is filled with accessible musings on urban life and epiphanies spurred by lovers and considerations of mental health.