Future seems content to be set dressing for Metro Boomin’s elaborate production.
In many ways, Breakthrough does present a more grown-up Mary.
By the standards of the albums released by the Idol kids, The Real Thing fares scarcely worse than Ruben Studdard’s Soulful.
Biggie has no one to blame for this overwhelming cavalier negligence but himself.
The clean version of James Blunt’s Back to Bedlam dulls the edges of the U.K. singer-songwriter’s often pointed lyrics
Mariah wasn’t the only one making a comeback in 2005.
This is the kind of score that works better cut into snippets in the film than it does emanating in toto from your home stereo.
Vol. 2 finds Shakira straddling the line more than ever, one part Natalie Merchant and one part Jewel.
Where is the authentic Japanese music on this soundtrack?
For all the so-called weighty subject matter, there’s not much meat on these bones.
Atomic Bomb finds U2 in the unique position of being one of the only rock acts capable of making the universal seem achingly personal.
Damn if instrumental post-rock groups don’t have the goofiest album titles in the business.
Carrie Underwood is trying to beat the odds with her debut album Some Hearts.
Much like Stevie Nicks’s Trouble In Shangri-La, Aerial sounds dateless.
Eurythmics’s Peace was a marked departure from the new wave duo’s more famous synth-pop output from the 1980s.
The album eschews the major problems of its predecessor while presenting an entirely new set of obstacles for Big & Rich to overcome.
The album documents an impressive career, even if it eschews Alanis Morissette’s pre-history for what she considers her finer moments.
Catching Tales pushes the polyglot approach of Twentysomething even further.
Working with their grandmother, Olga Sarantos, the Friedbergers fashion off-kilter vignettes from vivid memories of a life, viewed in nostalgic retrospect.
The Moon Was Blue is a welcome return from an artist who, hopefully, plans to forge even farther ahead.
What keeps The Body Acoustic from being perhaps as essential as it could have been is the inconsistency of the guest stars.