The year may have gotten off to a slow start, but these are the albums that we just can’t stop listening to.
Air’s music never fails to—put simply—evoke.
For all intents and purposes, DiFranco’s 14th effort, Educated Guess, is a break-up album.
Automatically their appropriation of all that we hold dear about ’80s rock gives them a better shot at the suburbs than the flouncy ditties of the aforementioned bands.
It’s basically a rule that any album nominated for Album of the Year will most certainly win in its respective genre-specific category.
The role of Phantom Planet drummer will now be played by Jeff Conrad, with The Flaming Lips producer Dave Fridmann presiding.
Who better to make an album about fortune and hardship than David Bowie?
This remix album proves that the quieter moments are often McLachlan’s best.
Ashanti’s Christmas isn’t what you’d expect from multi-platinum-selling royalty.
It’s debatable whether Starsailor contributes anything new to the genre of symphonic Brit-pop to which they so earnestly belong.
This year, the music biz continued to wage war against P2P file-sharing by suing its own customers.
Soulful is a painfully predictable mix of traditional R&B glop and comparatively forced contemporary hip-hop.
On the album, Prince pushes the question of mortality straight into an apocalyptic realm.
We have done our best to keep the culinary metaphors to a minimum
Ben Gibbard ardently builds castles in the sky because everything looks perfect from far away.
Despite all the fanfare that surrounded her debut, the singer remains grounded in the music.
Once again, Furtado and her crew artfully mix the traditional with the modern.
Missy has become the Maya Angelou of hip-hop.
While it’s unlikely to match the success of Rod Stewart’s recent Great American Songbook albums, At Last is infinitely more bearable.
Impossible Princess runs the gamut of styles, but manages to remain cohesive and fresh, even years later.
After almost two decades in the business, Whitney Houston is just now releasing a Christmas album.