We weren’t sure if Madonna could surprise us anymore. Until she did.
Sea Sew makes for both a challenging and a charming proper introduction for Hannigan.
Sing lays Wynonna’s influences bare in a way that she’s never previously committed to record.
On the whole, Mangini’s production choices successfully recreate an old-school R&B vibe.
Duffy’s got a solid shot at all three of the categories she’s nominated in.
Having good taste in collaborators and influences doesn’t make up for how often Bentley repeats himself.
Ready for the Flood finds the two long-time collaborators more or less picking up where they left off.
Heavy and mysterious, Mirror Eye is a careful exercise in musical patience.
With Gutter Tactics, their fifth album, Dalek threatens to grow completely stagnant.
Working on a Dream is a toothless album whose fascination with good vibes leaves it feeling soft and expressionless.
The album is a continuation of the methods that the band has perfected over the last several years.
Post-punk is about looking forward, not back.
The bonus tracks on Lotus Party are, on the whole, a more intriguing bag of tricks than those that accompany Merge’s reissue of Bright Orange Years.
The album announces Friedman’s arrival as one of the genre’s smartest and deepest talents.
If not boasting the most sophisticated of concepts, the record does have an overarching narrative about seemingly endless nights spent out on the club circuit.
Noble Beast offers its fair share of dazzle.
Get Guilty could easily be a singles collection.
Glasvegas is frustrating but intermittently brilliant.
The album finds one of the most talented, most creative pop bands finally and gloriously figuring it all out.
Most of the chances that Watkins and Foreman have taken for this record pay off.
Antony’s one-of-a-kind tenor is stretched to the point of a whisper on Crying Light.