The album sounds beamed in from an earlier decade, but it runs deeper than nostalgia.
The album proves that the punk icon not only has more to say, but continues to find exciting ways to say them.
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The Atlanta-based trio’s spin on familiar sounds feels both colossal and tossed-off.
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As a concept album about good and evil, Heroes & Villains mostly delivers.
The album is filled with accessible musings on urban life and epiphanies spurred by lovers and considerations of mental health.
The album suggests a lost ’70s Afrofuturist sci-fi movie score as composed by Alice Coltrane.
The album serves as a refinement of Young’s late-period output.
Among other things, the rapper’s sixth EP proves that sometimes less really is more.
Too often, Stormzy sounds crushed under the weight of his own unrelenting seriousness.
The album conjures a dark, enticing dynamism unparalleled even by the band’s own extraordinary output.
The album sounds more like the product of a therapy session than a collection of songs intended for the public.
The rapper’s 16th album often feels like a spartan exercise in pure technical ability.
The album is rooted in our current moment, though it occasionally paints with a broad brush.
The EP finds the band adding an ornate art-punk edge to their characteristically hostile sonic assault.