The album sounds beamed in from an earlier decade, but it runs deeper than nostalgia.
The album’s sonic palette is nearly identical to its predecessors, but this is the most introspective release of the trilogy.
The album is expertly crafted, but a rougher hewn approach would have better honored its source material.
The English producer’s first album in six years is another immersive slice of low-key electronica.
This is, for all intents and purposes, a Drake album that just happens to feature 21 Savage.
For the most part, the album delivers the kind of deceptively simple, fleet pop for which the band is best known.
The DJ and producer looks back on his own musical past, taking inspiration from the artists that shaped his youth.
Rihanna has released her first solo single in six years, but it’s not the return to form that fans have likely been waiting for.
The album traces a personal narrative about growing weary of casual sex and embracing love, all in the span of just half an hour.
The singer proves she’s unwilling to operate on anyone’s terms other than her own.
The band sounds reinvigorated, proving that the sonic risks of their last album were far from a dead end.
The video is a horror-comedy that, at turns, evokes Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Alice in Wonderland.
The album is a markedly more stoic effort from a singer who, up until now, has been relentlessly upbeat.
The rapper-singer continues to triangulate sociopolitical commentary and personal identity in consistently clever ways.
The album remains the singer’s most daring effort, one which snuffs out afterglow and imprints itself like a rash on the soul.
Lil Baby’s third album plays as if ripped from the rapper’s diary, confronting trust issues and the loss of friends.
The songs click almost immediately, but they’re subtler and pricklier than a first listen would imply.
The rapper-singer’s first album in 30 years exists in its own out-of-time universe, where Brit-pop, pop-rap, and disco coexist.
For Eno, late adulthood doesn’t just bring forth new perspectives on humanity or the universe at large, but on one’s own existence as well.
Helen Ballentine’s debut offers copious moments of hushed self-reflection and aching sadness.
Paramore attracted one of the biggest crowds at ACL, putting on an electrifying set.