The singer has teased a new release date for the set and announced a companion album to boot.
5.0 sinks into the zone of mediocrity occupied by so many mainstream rap albums.
The shift in the Pipettes’s decade of choice isn’t the problem in and of itself.
Get Closer plays out as vintage Urban.
The album often emphasizes the heavy influence of traditional country and roots forms in Jones’s music.
Furtado’s first greatest hits compilation suggests that there has been a fairly consistent through line and style to her catalogue.
The album is a candygram from the heart of a giddy, geeky romantic.
This is an album riddled with clichés and fraught with unconvincing cries of rebellion.
Loud is a decided step away from its über-personal, melodrama-drenched predecessor.
Throughout, John O’Regan reworks grand, organic melodies with unassuming warmth.
Despite its quiet release, Small Craft on a Milk Sea comes loaded with all kinds of external baggage.
Despite its top-notch instrumentals and über-polished production, The Lady Killer stands out for Green’s breathtaking vocal performances.
Pursuing genius at the expense of consistency might work out just fine for Cudi.
Not a damaged wail and not a burst of joy either. It’s the wizened sound of acceptance.
Down There is not an Animal Collective album.
Jamiroquai’s latest is a calculated effort to return to a more organic funk sound.
The album is one of the most revealing and none-too-flattering approximations of the mindset of a certain sort of adult’s Christmas spirit.
Sidewalks lacks a considerable amount of the bite of its predecessor.
North displays an astonishing level of growth and maturity when compared to Darkstar’s earlier hyperkinetic dubstep material.
“Runaway” is less of a video for the track of the same name than it is a film designed to be visual accompaniment to the whole of the Fantasy album.
There are very few artists with the desire to experiment with their sound during the twilight of their careers, and even fewer with the ability to do so convincingly.