The songs rarely cohere into anything greater than the sum of their individual parts.
The album retains the group’s knack for cybernetic pop hooks while exploring chill-out and hard, filter-filled trance.
Recorded by producer-on-the-rise Ryan Freeland, the album is lush without becoming too glossy.
For fans of Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band heyday, the boss’s new album, The Rising, should turn out to be an American treasure.
A thoroughly enjoyable record, Highly Evolved recalls two of the wildest times in rock.
With each solo outing, Beth Orton chips away at her musical past.
Church wears his influences on his sleeve, but it’s not clear what planet he’s actually from.
While Busted Stuff is undeniably a step back from the band’s previous work, it all looms high above the everyday fluff of Everyday.
The album is obscene, blasphemous, dirty and, quite frankly, irresistible
The album is a homegrown effort that joins the producer with a flock of other Philly-bred artists including Shawn Stockman of Boyz II Men and Questlove.
Boyz II Men return with a new label and some old friends.
Generation Y likes to play dress up.
The Red Hot Chili Peppers still sound like a band of friends in a garage somewhere, conspiring for a revolution.
Cypress Hill’s Stash is a bit more impressive, with six incarnations of songs spanning eight years.
We polled journalists, DJs, and record-label folk to find out what they thought were the most important electronic albums of the 20th century.
If Will Smith were Tom Hanks then Born to Reign would be his Philadelphia.
Anastacia should keep the sloppy slow numbers to a minimum and, like a good bombastic diva-in-training, keep her eye on the dancefloor.
The problem with mainstream rock today is that it often sounds too lazy.
With his third solo outing, Wyclef Jean offers up yet another concept album.
File under: Possible One Hit Wonder with an unfortunate moniker and potential for so much more.
Let’s get one thing straight: P. Diddy did not invent the remix.